Adjusting and sustaining electronic circuit manufacturing processes

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This standard identifies the competences you need to adjust and sustain electronic circuit manufacturing processes, in accordance with approved procedures. You will be required to access the appropriate specifications, to check that they are of the latest issue and to extract all necessary information, in order to adjust and sustain a manufacturing process for printed circuit boards, thin, thick and flexible film circuitry. You will be expected to carry out a range of general support tasks, use appropriate process adjustment methods and to report and record appropriate data in a suitable form, such as charts, tables and narrative. You will be expected to use approved organisational procedures for adjusting and sustaining electronic circuit manufacturing processes and you will be expected to communicate reports of your activities to the relevant people.

Your responsibilities will require you to comply with organisational policy and procedures for adjusting and sustaining the electronics circuit manufacturing activities and to report any problems with these activities that you cannot personally resolve, or are outside your permitted authority, to the relevant people. You will be expected to work with a minimum of supervision, taking full responsibility for your own actions and for the quality and accuracy of the work that you undertake.

Your underpinning knowledge will provide a good understanding of your work and will provide an informed approach to applying configuration techniques, which are unique to particular products and processes, within your work environment. You will understand the relevant production processes and their applications, in adequate depth to provide a sound basis for carrying out the activities, correcting out-of-specification processes and ensuring that the final output is to the required specification.

You will understand the safety precautions required when working in an electronics-manufacturing environment and with the associated equipment. You will be required to demonstrate safe working practices throughout and will understand the responsibility you owe to yourself and others in the workplace.

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1. work safely at all times, complying with health and safety legislation, regulations, directives and other relevant guidelines
2. follow all relevant setting up and operating specifications for the products or assets being configured

3. set up the equipment correctly, following defined procedures, setting up and operating specifications

4. ensure that all operating parameters are achieved

5. deal promptly and effectively with problems within your control and report those that cannot be solved
6. check that the configuration is complete and that the equipment operates to specification
7. ensure that work records are completed, stored securely and available to others, as per organisational requirements
8. leave the work area in a safe condition on completion of the activities, as per organisational and legal requirements

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1. the specific safety precautions to be taken whilst carrying out the  activities (including any specific legislation, regulations or codes of practice relating to the activities, equipment or materials)
2. the health and safety requirements of the work area  and the activities, and the responsibility these requirements place on you
3. the hazards associated with the activities and how to minimise them and reduce risks
4. the personal protective equipment and clothing (PPE) to be worn during the activities
5. voltage ranges, what constitutes a hazardous voltage and how to reduce the risks of a phase to earth shock
6. how to obtain the authority to enter the relevant work areas and any specific permit-to-work procedures that are used
7. how to obtain and use organisational specifications for the product and/or process-related assets being configured, and any special information needs of customers
8. how circuitry and its features are specified and the limitations of different types of materials used
9. the basic operation of the production processes and the process equipment that is being adjusted and how they relate to the area being adjusted and sustained
10. the problems that can arise in the processing of the types of circuitry involved
11. the adjustment methods and techniques used by the organisation for the relevant set-up work and how to implement them safely and carefully in the given work areas (such as inputting software programme instructions, adjusting and fitting jigs and fixtures, setting system equipment parameters - such as time, temperature profiling)
12. the importance of carrying out adjustments without causing unwanted disruption to other activities
13. the formats and levels of detail required for process control reports (such as failure modes)
14. suitable methods for the presentation of the production data (such as in tables, charts, graphically)
15. how and when pre-production prototypes are used and by whom
16. the problems that can occur with configuration activities and how they can be avoided
17. the extent of your own responsibility and whom you should report to if you have problems that you cannot resolve
18. how to access, use and maintain information to comply with organisational requirements and legislation

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1. Carry out all of the following during the adjusting and sustaining activities:

   1. use the correct issue of drawings, job instructions and specifications
   2. adhere to health and safety regulations, systems and    procedures to realise a safe system of work
   3. comply with organisational procedures
   4. create and store records, in accordance with appropriate procedures

2. Adjust and sustain one of the following manufacturing processes:

   1. printed circuit board substrate
   2. screen printing            
   3. circuit cleaning
   4. thin film circuits                 
   5. component masking   
   6. hand soldering
   7. thick film circuits                
   8. auto-insertion/placement     
   9. laser trimming
   10. flexible film circuits                
   11. flow/re-flow soldering   
   12. glazing
   13. wirebonding
   14. encapsulation techniques

3. Adjust and sustain electronics manufacturing processes, taking account of all of the following:

   1. organisational requirements (such as batch size, instructions and guidelines)
   2. customer requirements
   3. production/process equipment, items, tools and jigs to be used
   4. frequency of adjustments required
   5. system equipment adjustments needed (such as software program set-up, solder temperatures, component positioning, conductive ink deposition)

4. Prepare information related to sustaining electronic manufacturing, in two of the following categories:

   1. manufacturing progress reports/charts/data
   2. process control reports/charts/data
   3. quality control report/charts/data

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2023

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Current

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Original

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Semta

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SEMEEE3-13

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Engineering, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies, Engineering Technicians, Maintenance Team Technician, Manufacturing Technologies, Production and Process Engineers

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3113

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Engineering; electrical; electronic; adjusting; sustaining; manufacturing; process; specification; circuitry; methods

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