Control carton enhancing machinery
Overview
This standard is for print finishers who make ready and run carton enhancing machinery.
You must show that you can:
- make carton enhancing machinery ready for production
- run carton enhancing machinery.
This involves: - identifying job requirements;
- checking that carton enhancing machinery is working properly;
- checking that safety devices are working properly;
- running carton enhancing machinery safely;
- adjusting settings, where necessary to maintain required standards;
- checking work meets required standards;
- identifying faults and taking action to deal with them;
- unloading and stacking finished products.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Make carton enhancing machinery ready for production
- check you have all the details required for work
- confirm you have enough materials of the right type to meet specifications
- report issues where materials provided are not correct or sufficient to the appropriate person(s)
- check the work area is safe and ready for production
- load materials to meet specifications
- make carton enhancing machinery ready to run to meet specifications
- check material is fed without damage or distortion
- confirm enhancements are made in correct position on materials
- check finished products are free from unacceptable creasing, marking or distortion
- produce a sample from the machine and check that it matches the required standards
- make adjustments when standards are not met
- report if the standards cannot be met to the appropriate person(s)
Run carton enhancing machinery - run carton enhancing machinery at the required speeds following safe working practices
- keep up the supply of materials throughout runs to meet specifications
- check quality standards are met
- identify production faults which result in in-put material feeding out of square, in-put material jamming and unacceptable creasing, marking, damage or distortion to the product
- correct faults within the limits of your responsibility
- report any faults outside the limits of your responsibility to the appropriate person(s)
- check machines are safe to operate, once faults have been corrected
- record production and quality assurance details following standard operating procedures
- remove waste following standard operating procedures
- stack work following standard operating procedures
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
Make carton enhancing machinery ready for production
- details needed for work
- principles of carton enhancing
- sequence of set up tasks for carton enhancing machinery
- risks associated with making ready carton enhancing machinery and how to avoid them
- common carton enhancing faults, what causes them and how to prevent them
- emergency shut down procedures
Run carton enhancing machinery - company's quality standards
- risks associated with running carton enhancing machines and how to avoid them
- other faults that can occur during carton enhancing
- how to recognise when you should correct faults yourself and when you should ask for help
- who to report faults to
- procedures for removal of waste from machines
- production and quality assurance records to keep
Scope/range
Make carton enhancing machinery ready for production
You must show that:
1 you obtain the following types of material:
1.1 input materials (which may be output from the printing process)
1.2 processing materials
2 you can confirm that machinery is in a fit condition by:
2.1 visual examination
2.2 test run
2.3 checking the control settings
3 you can make carton enhancing machinery ready for the following enhancing operations:
3.1 window patching
3.2 foil blocking
3.3 coating and laminating
Run carton enhancing machinery
You must show that:
4 you can run the machine for the following enhancing operations:
4.1 window patching
4.2 foil blocking
4.3 coating and laminating
5 you can identify and report the following types of faults:
5.1 damage to output
5.2 output out of specification
5.3 recurring machine faults
5.4 machine faults which require others' expertise to rectify