Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Interpret finishing specifications
- Interpret specifications applying to textile finishing process from data sheets, production schedules or process specifications
- Determine type, quantity and quality of materials required for the textile finishing, and test, as required, to confirm material specifications
- Identify and consider implications of specifications on process in determining process requirements
- Clarify specifications as required using appropriate information resources
- Determine procedures for textile finishing
- Identify finishing process most appropriate to required outcomes
- Select required equipment, tools and materials and evaluate for purpose
- Use appropriate calculations to determine material requirements
- Determine finishing procedures, formulas and relevant specifications, and document using standard procedures
- Confirm finishing
- Test and validate textile finishing procedures and formulas
- Identify and document deviations from specifications and conduct further testing to determine variations required to procedures
- Adjust finishing procedures and formulas, as required, to meet specifications
- Document textile finishing procedures and communicate to appropriate personnel for future application