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Carry out knitted fabric production and costing calculations

Level Credits Purpose 4 10 This unit standard is for senior technical personnel working with any types of industrial knitting machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to: calculate knitting machine production rates; calculate knitting plant production performance; measure sample knitting times and wastages; measure and evaluate yarn usages in knitted samples; and calculate knitting costs of samples. Subfield Domain Status Status date Date version published Industrial Machine Knitting Knitting Machine Technical Servicing Expiring 19 March 2010 19 March 2010

This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place before the expiry date set out below. Expiry date Entry information Accreditation 31 December 2011 Open. Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry. Apparel and Textile Industry Training Organisation 0030

Standard setting body (SSB)

Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference

This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do. Special notes 1 This unit standard applies to all sectors of the knitting industry.

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4502 version 6 Page 2 of 4 2 This unit standard relates to the calculations carried out in a knitting plant in respect of: a the production rates of individual machines in relation to each style, pattern, or construction; b the production rate of the knitting plant over a specified period of time; c calculations associated with the costing of samples according to company costing procedures. Technical aspects that are required to be covered in this unit standard include: a company practice and procedures in regard to evaluating machine and plant production; b procedures for determining wastage and machine down-time; c procedures for costing samples according to company practice that take in all relevant costs.

Elements and performance criteria

Element 1 Calculate knitting machine production rates. Performance criteria 1.1 1.2 1.3 The production time of each style, pattern, or construction is calculated in relation to the machine it is knitted on, according to company practice. Wastages and down-times are recorded according to company practice. The production rate of each machine is calculated according to company practice.

Element 2 Calculate knitting plant production performance. Performance criteria 2.1 The collective production of the plant is calculated for a specified period according to company practice. Range 2.2 2.3 day, or week, or month, or year.

Causes of machine stoppages are analysed to identify any machine(s) in need of urgent maintenance. Production statistics are examined to determine poor-performing machines in need of servicing.

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4502 version 6 Page 3 of 4 Element 3 Measure sample knitting times and wastages. Performance criteria 3.1 3.2 The knitting times of complete samples are measured and documented according to company practice. Knitting wastages are measured and documented according to company practice.

Element 4 Measure and evaluate yarn usages in knitted samples. Performance criteria 4.1 4.2 Individual yarn components are measured by weight, and documented according to company practice. Input costs of component yarns are calculated for each sample and documented according to company practice.

Element 5 Calculate knitting costs of samples. Performance criteria 5.1 5.2 5.3 Factors associated with production of knitted fabrics through all stages are calculated and costed according to company costing procedures. All component costs of knitting the sample to specification are aggregated according to company procedures. All costing data for each sample are set out according to company documentation procedures.

Please note Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment. Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards. Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.

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4502 version 6 Page 4 of 4 Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.

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