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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine job requirements
   • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
   • Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
   • Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
   • Determine job requirements from specifications, job sheets or work instructions
2. Determine yield from fabric
   • Examine measurements and identify marker requirements from specification
   • Determine the impact of fabric features and specifications on marker
   • Identify pattern width and size scale and estimate material utilisation
   • Select and prepare suitable software programs and computing equipment
   • Access pattern/style libraries and enter fabric and sizing information
   • Generate an order for pattern/style marker
   • Determine optimal layout configuration to minimise fabric waste
   • Ensure lay requirements meet design specifications
   • Confirm garment yield from fabric
3. Prepare costing markers
   • Generate digital costing marker
   • Determine preliminary costing and assess commercial viability of production
   • Identify need for and make adjustments to improve viability
   • Create marker to maximise utilisation
   • Determine piece count, marker length and fabric utilisation
   • Ensure measurements and requested specifications are accurately documented
   • Print scaled marker and assess against design and production specifications
4. Prepare marker for use
   • Prepare marker for use and determine distribution or storage requirements
   • Prepare marker for email distribution
   • Store marker according to workplace procedures
   • Print scaled marker and prepare for processing

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Workplace procedures include one or more of the following:	requirements prescribed by legislation, awards, agreements and conditions of employment SOPs work instructions PPE oral, written and visual communication quality practices, including responsibility for maintenance of own work quality and contribution to quality improvement of team or section output housekeeping tasks related to environmental protection, waste disposal, pollution control and recycling WHS practices
Australian Standards include:	the relevant industry or Australian Standards that are current at the time this unit is being undertaken
Markers include one of more of the following:	costing yield markers sample marker volume markers
Requested specificationsinclude the following:	style number required sizes bundle codes piece descriptions spreading instructions
Fabric specifications include the following:	types of fabrics width and length of fabric measurements pattern/style

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include:

reading and following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and safe work practices

applying relevant standards

identifying marker requirements

selecting appropriate software programs

accessing pattern/style libraries

preparing order for pattern/style marker

using digital techniques to determine and modify layout

determining optimal fabric yield

using digital techniques to cost fabric

producing costing markers for at least two (2) complete set of graded patterns

checking outputs against specifications of brief

assessing commercial viability of patterns

storing marker according to workplace procedures

printing scaled marker and preparing for processing.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include:

reading and following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and safe work practices

applying relevant standards

identifying marker requirements

selecting appropriate software programs

accessing pattern/style libraries

preparing order for pattern/style marker

using digital techniques to determine and modify layout

determining optimal fabric yield

using digital techniques to cost fabric

producing costing markers for at least two (2) complete set of graded patterns

checking outputs against specifications of brief

assessing commercial viability of patterns

storing marker according to workplace procedures

printing scaled marker and preparing for processing.

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