Jewelry, silversmithing, and allied trades skilled / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Training

• Related H & S laws associated to their function and that of the broader office.
• The techniques, processes and organisational procedures used to make sure compliance with H & S and different related laws.

• Display the appliance of H & S, COSHH and different insurance policies inside the office.
• Display an understanding of office hazards and different areas of legislative non-compliance and the way these will be addressed.

• The aim and use of various hand instruments and tools.
• The upkeep of hand instruments and tools.
• Find out how to buy hand instruments and tools.

• Choose and utilise instruments and tools to attain the specified end/consequence.
• Keep the effectiveness of hand instruments and rectify any defects ought to these come up.
• Buy or order acceptable instruments and tools.

• The aim and use of various powered plant and tools.
• The upkeep of powered plant and tools.
• Find out how to buy powered plant and tools.

•  Choose and utilise the right powered plant or tools for the duty to attain the specified end/consequence.
• Keep the effectiveness of the powered plant and/or tools; and rectify defects and harm.

• Find out how to learn working drawings and specs, together with business commonplace descriptions and symbols used to explain processes and finishes
• Find out how to measure, interpret dimension and scale.
• Find out how to talk design necessities to colleagues and purchasers.
• The restrictions of various design approaches.

• Translate designs into bodily gadgets from working drawings to a specification.
• Determine the fabric required to provide an merchandise primarily based upon a given specification.
• Talk necessities of the design to colleagues utilizing business commonplace language.

• The place completely different supplies utilized in manufacture are sourced from
• The organisational procedures to observe when acquiring supplies
• The bodily properties and limitations of various supplies used and their relative monetary worth.
• Various supplies which may be used/substituted.
• The significance of decreasing waste and the strategies used for managing it.

• Choose the right amount of fabric for the duty as specified inside the design and specification and in accordance with organisational procedures
• Determine various supplies that may very well be substituted.
• Organise and implement the manufacturing course of to minimise waste.
• Display a wider understanding of waste administration inside the office.

• The significance of working to tolerances in opposition to the unique design/specification.
• The significance of self-reflection to help with the event of abilities.

• Choose and utilise instruments to measure tolerances and accuracy all through the manufacturing course of.
• Implement actions to enhance the end/accuracy of the merchandise.

• The business particular terminology used to explain supplies, processes and finishes
• The roles of differing workforce members inside the organisation and an understanding of how their very own work depends upon and influence on the work of others
• The completely different talent units out there inside the organisation and people companies which might be outsourced to different people and organisations
• The organisational strategies used to speak with clients

• Talk with colleagues and different people concerned within the manufacturing course of in a way that’s clear, signifies understanding of the specified consequence and which promotes teamwork.
• Talk with the shopper completely different choices which may be potential to provide the merchandise

• How buyer necessities will be recognized.
• How completely different methods, processes and finishes will be communicated to clients.
• How work will be precisely priced.
• The place data relating to new and rising methods and supplies will be sought.

• Translate buyer necessities.
• Talk the varied methods, processes and finishes associated to the merchandise(s)

• The organisational procedures which make sure the safety of supplies, work in progress, staff and most of the people.

• Follows procedures to promotes their very own safety and that of colleagues and the organisation.
• Takes motion to recognise and mitigate dangers

• Totally different shaping and forming methods which may be utilised.
• Totally different instruments and tools which may be used for the duty.
• Course of and goal of annealing steel when shaping and forming supplies.
• Elimination of oxides, and many others. from the merchandise throughout processing.

• Display the processes required to form a chunk of silverware from a given design, together with the instruments and tools that will be required.
• Display annealing course of to form and kind metals.
• Keep an efficient working atmosphere.

• Totally different processes used to affix gadgets.
• How the completely different properties of metals influence on the strategy used to affix them.
• Find out how to assist and maintain work in the course of the becoming a member of course of.

• Display using appropriate becoming a member of methods within the profitable completion of the duty.
• Display an understanding of several types of solder and associated fluxes.
• Display an understanding round using jigs, binding wire, “stiches” and different fixtures used when soldering.
• Display an understanding of using security pickle and oxide prevention methods and supplies

• Totally different finishes that may be utilized to silverware.
• How surfaces ought to be ready previous to sharpening and ending.
• The usage of plating and patination
• How completely different finishes will be achieved.
• The precept of half sharpening when assembling an merchandise.
• The significance of cleansing the merchandise previous to and after sharpening.

• Use abrasives, papers, powders and blocks to arrange gadgets for sharpening and ending.
• Display a spread of sharpening and ending methods
• Use lathe, and/or different appropriate tools to shine work to the required commonplace.
• Publish-process work to a industrial commonplace.

• The varied moulding making supplies utilized by the business and their utility.
• The restrictions of various mould making supplies,
• The mould making and slicing course of associated to every materials.

• Display a spread of related mould making abilities to the required commonplace.
• Display related slicing methods.
• Checks that moulds are free from defects.

• The kinds of wax pot which may be employed, each guide and automatic.
• The working temperature and strain of molten wax.
• The removing of wax patterns from moulds avoiding harm or deformation.
• The identification and prevention of defects that would have an effect on the viability of the wax sample.

• Inject rubber mould with wax to a constant commonplace and take away from mould
• Verify on the standard to make sure that the wax sample is free from defects
• Keep a clear and tidy work space

• The instruments required to construct wax bushes.
• The fundamental ideas of steel movement, solidification and spruing.
• How wax patterns are assembled

• Create a practical wax tree prepared for investing.

• The levels of the funding course of.
• The significance of the burnout cycle within the funding course of
• The operation of the furnace

• Put together equipment for the funding course of.
• Combine the funding materials and make investments the mould inside its flask    
• Load, program and run the furnace for casting.

• The varied casting processes and their acceptable utility to completely different metals.
• The use and goal of cloaking gases, over-pressure and vacuum when utilized to casting processes.
• The temperature and casting cycles that ought to be utilized.
• The processes wanted to make sure that casts are absolutely shaped
• Figuring out widespread defects and methods to rectify them.

• Calculate the quantity of steel required to efficiently fill a given flask.
• Put together steel and equipment for casting and solid steel into flasks.

• The aim course of for quenching.
• The post-processing of flasks together with the removing of funding by jet washing.
• Methods and instruments required to take away the completed castings from the central sprue or tree.

• Quench flasks and take away the funding utilizing acceptable tools.
• Take away casting from bushes utilizing acceptable tools.

• The several types of stone setting used within the business.
• The instruments and methods required to efficiently full the duty together with these used for marking out, using burrs, drills and frazes.
• The completely different ranges of hardness of various stone varieties and its influence on the kind of setting used

• Choose the right setting method appropriate for the kind and hardness of the stone(s) getting used
• Put together the merchandise for setting by marking out and/or opening out the merchandise to be set to accommodate the dear gems.

• Find out how to create bearers and grains utilizing the suitable instruments together with scorpers and gravers.

• Display a spread of methods to create bearers or grains previous to setting the piece

• The right course of for setting stones utilizing pushers, burnishers, and many others.
• The right course of for eradicating stones utilizing the suitable tools.

• Display a spread of setting processes utilizing the right methods.
• Display the profitable removing of treasured gems utilizing the right methods.

• The method for ending gadgets as soon as these are set.
• The usage of burnishers to deburr gadgets post-setting.

• Full post-processing of set gadgets to a typical that meets the requirement of the employer.

• Find out how to measure dimensions precisely.
• Find out how to switch the design to the merchandise and mark out.

• Use dividers and calliper and measuring gauges for marking out.
• Use measuring devises to achieve appropriate dimensions.

• Find out how to translate the design onto supplies.
• How designs will be measured and marked out on supplies and the completely different instruments that can be utilized.
• The terminology used inside working drawings in stone mounting actions.

• Choose and use acceptable measuring and marking tools.
• Switch the design and drawing necessities to steel.
• Mark out positions on materials for slicing, shaping and drilling to the required specification.
• Minimize and form materials to the specs set out within the design.

• The properties of various supplies used within the manufacturing of jewelry.
• The completely different melting factors of non-ferrous metals and treasured metals.
• The ductility and malleability of the metals used.
• The required degree of steel floor ending required previous to remaining sharpening.

• Choose the right steel and fineness to provide the required merchandise.
• Process is accomplished with out harm to the floor.
• Materials is used economically, producing as little waste as potential.
• Obtain an appropriate floor degree end on treasured metals.
• Make sure that the mount is satisfactorily ready for setting.

• Know the varied kinds of letter types and layouts for inscriptions and monograms.
• Find out about the important thing variations between restore, restoration, conservation and reconstruction.
• How related crafts (e.g. silversmithing, enamelling, steel spinning, sharpening, stone mounting and many others), influence on the completion of the engraved work.

• Mark out and measure supplies for engraving.
• Lay out scroll work and decorative patterns.
• Produce engraved surfaces utilizing a spread of supplies, designs, floor varieties, commonplace and superior methods (together with slicing, seal engraving, carving, piercing, inlay and overlay).
• Apply designs utilizing hand or machine-based processes.

• How buyer necessities will be recognized.
• How completely different engraving methods and finishes will be communicated to clients.
• How work will be precisely priced.
• The place data relating to new and rising engraving methods will be sought.

• Translate buyer necessities.
• Successfully talk the varied methods surrounding engraving.

• The method of repairing engraved gadgets broken in the course of the engraving course of.

• Implement restore methods together with using burnishers, and many others.

• The suitable chemical compounds to make use of to arrange the precise steel to be enamelled.

• Observe appropriate protected dealing with processes to be used of chemical compounds.
• Clear and put together the floor able to enamel.

• The strategies of making ready the enamel previous to utility.
• How the grade of the enamel will be assessed.

• Grind and wash the enamel to the required grade.
• Dry the enamel prepared for utility if utilizing dry sifting method.

• How moist lay enamel ought to be utilized.
• How mud enamel ought to be utilized.
• How enamel will be reworked previous to firing.

• Grind enamel in purified water for making use of moist enamel onto the product as per design necessities.
• Apply moist enamel onto the product as per design necessities.
• Mud the enamel onto the product to the right degree prepared for firing.

• The completely different firing strategies appropriate for enamelling functions together with fuel torch, batch, firing in electrical kiln, firing in an electrical conveyor furnace.

• Choose the suitable technique of firing the product.
• Set kiln to the right temperature for vitrifying the enamel.

• The ending strategies which may be utilized to enamelled merchandise.
• Recognizing and figuring out errors in enamelling.
• How defects will be corrected.

• Produce the floor required together with matt, shiny or satin finishes.
• End the enamel to the required floor impact.
• Right pin holes, floor filth and cracks.

• How surfaces will be cleaned and ready accurately
• The right sequences for eradicating hearth stain, preliminary abrasive sharpening, pickling, barrelling, ending, chemical stripping, shiny sharpening and ending.

• Apply the suitable pre-polishing processes

• The differing sharpening supplies which may be used.
• The suitable hand or machine sharpening processes to attain required finishes.
• The properties related to differing sharpening supplies.
• Find out how to specify using particular compounds together with abrasive, sharpening, ending and matting.

• Produce a commercially acceptable end on accomplished work.
• End work utilizing a spread of kit, compounds and chemical compounds.
• Polish and end work comprised of a spread of supplies.

Utilise acceptable instruments and equipment

• Find out how to specify using sharpening instruments and tools together with mops, felt bobs, brushes and composition wheels.
• Find out how to specify using sharpening tools together with hand and machine sharpening.
• How instruments ought to be ready.
• The perform of supplies utilized in barrel sharpening.

• Choose the suitable hand or machine sharpening instruments, tools and equipment.
• Put together and gown mops and bobs.
• Choose and use acceptable sharpening media.

• Find out how to appropriately use extremely sonic cleaner and chemical compounds.
• The usage of completely different drying strategies within the sharpening processes.
• How plating tools ought to be used.
• Find out how to measure the micron thickness of the product used when plating.

• Put together and use extremely sonic cleaner and answer.
• Put together and use plating tools.
• Apply drying strategies inside the sharpening course of.

• Find out how to learn a working drawing, business commonplace terminology and descriptors round finishes, and many others.
• Find out how to talk with the designer to make sure that the CAD design is perfect.
• Find out how to interpret what the designer is looking for to attain

• Display an understanding of methods to learn technical drawings and specs.
• Work successfully with colleagues to make sure that CAD designs are match for goal and reflective of the design intent.

• The practical and sensible features and nature of supplies wanted to provide differing designs together with weights and thicknesses
• The significance of correct measurement of current parts
• The significance of correct measurement of current parts, e.g. stones
• Find out how to assess the practicality of a design in regard to its manufacturing

• Develop manufacturing drawings and specs which take account of the manufacturing processes getting used and the properties of the fabric chosen.
• Assess the performance and practicality of the design

• Related business particular software program packages.
• The variations between 2D, 2.5D and 3D software program programmes.
• The usage of element libraries and different software program instruments that assist efficient design and manufacturing.
• Find out how to create types and shapes related to the commerce specialisation.
• The completely different types of output e.g. machining recordsdata, SLA, STL., and many others.

• Deciding on the right software program instruments to attain the required consequence.
• Display using rendering packages for presentation functions.

• How components will be produced utilizing CAD and CAM processes
• The vary of supplies which might be out there and appropriate for CAM processing.
• The function of assist supplies and helps within the CAM course of.
• The restrictions, strengths and weaknesses of the out there CAM options.

• Create acceptable recordsdata for CAM utilization.
• Verify that CAM components have satisfactory helps and that the mannequin is oriented accurately to make sure an optimum consequence.
• Display the appliance of an acceptable CAM and CNC processes.

• The post-processing of CAM fashions
• Why fashions might require curing and the completely different strategies by which this may be achieved.

• Verify on the profitable curing of 3D printed resin fashions.
• Produce post-process fashions.
• Take away assist and construct traces in preparation for casting

• Find out how to assess the design is to scale and meets the necessities of the design.
• The influence that shrinkage, warping and becoming can have on gadgets produced
• How the design will be adjusted to take account of shrinkage and warping.

• Utilise software program to handle problems with shrinkage, and many others.
• Use measuring tools to evaluate whether or not the merchandise has been constructed to acceptable tolerances and to scale 

• The protocols for storage and safety of information and mental property

• Apply organisational protocols round knowledge storage, file naming and safety.

• Several types of stones used inside the jewelry and artistic industries, together with treasured and semi-precious
• Fundamentals of gemmology and the way stones are created
• Totally different ranges of hardness of various stone varieties and its influence on the approaches used to chop and form the stone

• Choose stones primarily based on dimension, weight, color and form in accordance with requirements required by the shopper and set by the organisation

• Terminology used to explain the most typical cuts and shapes of stone
• Instruments and methods required to mark and set the cuts required to create the form and.or aspects required

• Interpret work documentation to determine kinds of reduce required
• Display a spread of methods to mark areas and aspects to be reduce

• Strategies used to cleave and reduce stones
• Instruments used to chop stones and the way they need to be arrange to be used
• Strategies used to measure and assess the effectiveness and high quality of the reduce

• Minimize stones utilizing saws
• Minimize stones utilizing abrasion methods
• Measure and assess the effectiveness of the reduce of treasured gems utilizing the right methods.

• Instruments and used to attain a spread of finishes
• Media used to attain differing finishes
• Course of for sharpening several types of stones  as soon as reduce
• The organisational requirements for the finishes required

• Arrange and use appropriate sharpening tools
• Apply appropriate media to attain specified commonplace
• Assess as as to whether the required commonplace has been achieved
• Retailer polished stones in a way that preserves their end