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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
   • Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
2. Prepare to apply textile calculations and specifications
   • Identify systems to document specifications
   • Identify techniques for converting specifications across systems for textile production
   • Interpret specifications applying to yarn analysis and fabric analysis
   • Identify, interpret and apply terminology used in the textile production industry relating to raw materials, specifications and processing
   • Interpret specifications to determine work requirements for textile operations
   • Use appropriate information resources and search techniques to clarify specifications
3. Perform textile calculations
   • Determine what calculations are required for specific production processes
   • Identify and apply formulas used to convert specifications to desired format
   • Identify and apply formulas and graphs appropriate for specified textile to calculate requirements for production
   • Check and verify calculations
   • Examine and validate deviations from expected outcomes with advice from appropriate information resources
4. Complete records
   • Document calculation records to agreed standards
   • Prepare documentation for testing or production processes

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
Specifications applying to yarn analysis include one or more of the following:	mean variation count or linear density ply dye weight moisture or regain winding speed
Specifications applying to fabric analysis include one or more of the following:	mass or unit area thread density dimensional change
Terminology includes one or more of the following:	Australian Standards international standards industry standards
Formulas include the following:	calculation of percentages calculation of fractions conversion between systems reading and constructing graphs
Resources and search techniques include one or more of the following:	SOPs safety procedures job lists manufacturer manuals specifications textile production patterns and machine settings Australian and international Standards trade journals quality system documentation customer requirements workplace and site procedures and manuals industry manuals codes of practice awards legislation plans diagrams log books hard copy or electronic data key personnel, supervisors, trainers and colleagues using index, table of contents, and numbering and classification systems computer database search or look-up, questioning and cross-referencing basic techniques to identify relevant information, including skimming and scanning, and identifying key words and ideas
Specified textiles include one or more of the following:	cotton wool mad-made fibres
Appropriate information resources include one or more of the following:	supervisors managers trainers machine manuals

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Performance Evidence

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

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

applying relevant standards

identifying and interpreting specifications relevant to yarn requirements and textile processes

interpreting and applying terminology used in the textile production industry relating to raw materials, specifications and processing

determining what calculations are required for specific production processes

using correct formulas to convert specifications to desired format

identifying and applying formulas and graphs appropriate for specified textile to calculate requirements for production on at least two (2)

checking, verifying and recording calculations

recognising, rectifying and reporting deviations from specifications

examining and validating deviations from expected outcomes with advice from appropriate information resources

documenting calculation records to agreed standards

preparing documentation for testing or production processes.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

safe work practices and procedures and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

relevant Australian Standards

textile industry terminology

systems and formula used in textile calculations

weight length ratio

international specification standards

practical application of calculations

quality practices

production processes

resources and research techniques

workplace procedures

recording and reporting practices.

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