This occupation is discovered within the manufacturing, artistic and design sectors, within the manufacturing of knitted materials and knitted merchandise. Merchandise are used within the clothes, medical, development and automotive industries. Merchandise vary from luxurious attire to quick vogue, plasters to implantable medical gadgets, pond liners to street underlay and automotive seat covers to engine elements.
The broad objective of the occupation is to create knitted elements or merchandise that meet buyer and/or organisation specs and high quality requirements. Knitting product manufacturing technicians may fit on one-off objects for particular prospects, product samples to be replicated or on bigger manufacturing runs. They use knitting strategies corresponding to flat knitting, round knitting, warp knitting and weft knitting. Every methodology produces a wholly totally different end. For instance, weft knitting produces a formed element, while warp knitting produces solely material yardage.
They work to a excessive degree of accuracy; with shut consideration to element, following given design briefs, which embody specs. They choose the uncooked supplies and machines applicable for the job, choose a related programme and arrange specialist knitting machines to supply the merchandise to specs. They oversee the machines as they knit the product, coping with manufacturing, high quality, operational and course of points all through manufacturing. They perceive the end-to-end knitting course of and help steady enchancment work as wanted. They perform routine, preventative upkeep, fault discover and rectify frequent points on knitting machines, making certain they ship a constant degree of high quality manufacturing. They work effectively, generally working below stress, to fulfill buyer or manufacturing deadlines.
Employers range in measurement from micro to giant. Knitted product manufacturing technicians work in a manufacturing manufacturing facility setting or a pattern room with entry to manufacturing amenities.
Of their every day work, an worker on this occupation interacts with their manufacturing supervisor or supervisor and personnel concerned within the design, improvement and manufacturing of knitted merchandise. This may range relying on the enterprise measurement, construction and dealing setting. Usually, in a small manufacturing unit, they’d work with the designer and perhaps the manufacturing supervisor. In a workshop producing bespoke knitwear, they could work with the designer and the pattern maker. In a wider manufacturing facility setting, they typically report back to a supervisor or manufacturing supervisor and may fit as half of a bigger group, consulting with design, improvement and manufacturing employees, to make sure specs are met.
An worker on this occupation can be answerable for manufacturing of knitted merchandise, implementing and overseeing environment friendly manufacturing strategies, making certain the knitted product meets the standard customary and design temporary. They need to work successfully on their very own, or they could work as a part of a wider group and should adjust to well being and security necessities.
3d knitting technician
Knit technician
Knitting machine operator
Knitting technolhist
Seam free knitter
Shima knitter
Technical knitter
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Data
K1: Well being & Security: Well being and Security at Work Act 1974, Management of Substances Hazardous to Well being (COSHH), Guide Dealing with, First support procedures, Private Protecting Tools (PPE), Threat Evaluation
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K2: Equality & Range within the office
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K3: Waste and vitality administration, environmental and sustainability insurance policies and procedures
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K4: Various kinds of knitting machines used within the manufacturing course of and their functions: jacquard, round, computerised flat knitting machines
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K5: The arrange, programming and adjustment of knitting machines
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K6: Routine knitting machine upkeep: cleansing, preventative upkeep, testing
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K7: Knitting machine programmes: knowledge enter, software program, points and changes
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K8: Yarn or materials varieties, origin, behaviour and specs: content material, traits and storage necessities
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K9: Work organisation; the significance and advantages of a clear, clear, effectively organised work space
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K10: Various kinds of knitting processes: weft knitting, interlock, purl, warp knitting
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K11: The ideas of the knitting course of: sew formation, knitting buildings, sew density
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K12: How knitted elements or knitted material make up the top product
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K13: Work documentation objective and necessities: technical packs, specs, technical sheets, Commonplace Operational Procedures (SOPs), dockets/tickets
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K14: Downside fixing methods: fault discovering and rectifying for knitting machines and knitted product
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K15: Manufacturing efficiencies, priorities and efficiency: targets, efficiency charges, deadlines
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K16: High quality requirements and techniques: specification, tolerances, and high quality checks
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K17: The ideas of steady enchancment strategies: lean manufacture, 6-sigma, KAIZEN, 5S (Type, Set so as, Shine, Standardise and Maintain)
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K18: Manufacturing prices of the knitted product: uncooked supplies, labour, overheads
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K19: Workforce working methods and advantages
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K20: Time administration methods: manufacturing planning, prioritising and monitoring
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K21: Business consciousness: the availability chain, product design, competitors and buyer expectations
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K22: Previous and present UK knitting business: medical, hosiery, geotextiles, vogue, efficiency put on
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K23: Strategies of communication: verbal
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Abilities
S1: Learn and interpret knitting directions and specs
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S2: Schedule, plan and prioritise the workload
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S3: Establish, report and resolve any discrepancies with work directions
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S4: Choose and use yarns or supplies, for instance color, sort, depend
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S5: Examine uncooked supplies, figuring out and reporting faults if essential
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S6: Establish and arrange knitting machines
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S7: Organise and put together the work space for knitting manufacturing
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S8: Choose software program and enter knowledge
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S9: Conduct security checks in relation to the work space and knitting machines
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S10: Conduct take a look at runs and determine high quality points
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S11: Appropriate product faults
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S12: Establish, report and resolve knitting machine points
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S13: Alter knitting machines
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S14: Change knitting machine needles and parts as required
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S15: High quality test closing merchandise and put together for the following stage of the method
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S16: Establish and segregate reject merchandise
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S17: Establish and segregate materials for reuse, recycling and disposal
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S18: Enter data for instance work data, work tickets, work dockets
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S19: Conduct first line preventative upkeep, for instance stripping and cleansing knitting machines
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S20: Apply steady enchancment methods
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S21: Talk with colleagues for instance verbal and written work directions
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S22: Produce a knitted product costing
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S23: Comply with protected working practices, for instance follows guide dealing with, lifting and protected ergonomic apply
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Behaviours
B1: Workforce participant, for instance participates with others to perform organisational and group objectives
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B2: Prioritises well being, security and welfare of self and others over different calls for
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B3: Adaptable for instance responds positively to adjustments in priorities and work deadlines
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B4: Takes possession for work, for instance accepts obligations, demonstrates initiative, motivated, and self-managing
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B5: Strives for steady enhancements in relation to product high quality, manufacturing processes, and manufacturing techniques
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B6: Dedicated to continued skilled improvement for instance displays on efficiency, seeks alternatives to develop and advance in response to the evolving manufacturing setting and applied sciences
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