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K1: Composite business consciousness. Vary of composite merchandise. Manufacturing environments. Forms of clients.
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K2: Composite technician’s function. Limits of accountability. Escalation procedures.
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K3: Well being and security rules and requirements consciousness. Management of Substances Hazardous to Well being (COSHH). Show Display Tools. Electrical security and compliance. Hearth security. Hand arm vibration (HAVS). Well being and Security at Work Act – obligations. Human components, ergonomics. Legionella. Lifting Operations and Lifting Tools Rules (LOLER). Lone working. Guide dealing with. Noise regulation. Provision and Use of Work Tools Rules (PUWER). Slips journeys and falls. The Reporting of Accidents, Illnesses and Harmful Occurrences Rules (RIDDOR). Working at Peak. Working in Confined Areas.
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K4: Well being and security follow. Threat evaluation and threat mitigation in composites course of manufacturing surroundings. Private protecting gear (PPE) necessities: choice, inspection, operation, carrying, and disposal.
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K5: Environmental and sustainability rules and steerage. Environmental hazards that may come up from composite operations. Environmental administration programs commonplace. Environmental Safety Act. Environmental signage and notices.
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K6: Rules of sustainability and round economic system. Vitality effectivity and reuse of supplies. Recycling procedures. Rules of management and administration of emissions and waste.
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K7: Definition of a composite. Interplay between resin and fibre. Forms of core. Advantages of including core. Benefits and drawbacks of composites.
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K8: The traits of completed composite merchandise and their varied purposes.
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K9: The distinction between thermoset and thermoplastics: mechanical and thermal advantages, processing necessities, and re-cycling potential.
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K10: Forms of reinforcement supplies: aramid, carbon, glass, pure fibres, and thermoplastic fibres; processing, price, efficiency, advantages, and limitations.
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K11: Forms of matrix supplies: bismaleimide, cyanate ester, epoxy, phenolic, polyester, vinylester, and bio-derived: processing, price, efficiency, advantages, and limitations.
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K12: The manufacture of supplies: chopped strand mat, non-crimp materials, pre-impregnated, preforms, unidirectional, and woven reinforcements. Totally different weave kinds: plain, satin and twill; affect on drape and mechanical properties.
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K13: Composite course of supplies and consumables: peel plies, launch brokers, launch movies, sealant tapes, and vacuum bag; software and advantages of use.
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K14: Hand lay-up strategies: open moulding, spray lay-up, and pre-impregnated. Resin infusion, resin switch moulding, and closed moulding utilizing vacuum strategies.
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K15: Consciousness of automated lay-up: automated fibre placement, automated tape layup, braiding, and filament winding.
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K16: Plant, gear, equipment, and hand instruments used inside composites manufacture: software and operation.
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K17: The curing cycle. Glass transition temperature (Tg). The science of strain and vacuum.
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K18: Rules of course of management and instrument management methodology.
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K19: Consciousness of software of digital programs to help manufacture: CAD (computer-aided design), CAM (computer-aided manufacturing), CMM (coordinate measuring machine), and additive manufacture.
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K20: Composite tooling and product design course of consciousness.
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K21: Composite mould software manufacture strategies, strategies, and issues.
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K22: Composite mould software preparation and operation.
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K23: Composite manufacture processes and ideas: moulding, laminating, and curing.
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K24: Course of threat in composite manufacture and mitigation. Defect sorts and causes.
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K25: Composite restore strategies: step, scarf, gel, resin injection, and riveting.
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K26: Customary working procedures, drawings, and work directions: what are they, why they’re vital.
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K27: High quality, price, and supply (QCD) requirements and their significance within the office.
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K28: High quality assurance, testing and inspection strategies.
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K29: Documentation necessities.
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K30: Consciousness of audits and their objective.
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K31: Drawback fixing: root trigger evaluation, 5-Whys.
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K32: Steady enchancment (CI) strategies: lean, 6-sigma, KAIZEN, and 5S.
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K33: Info know-how. Administration data programs, phrase processing, spreadsheet, e mail, digital studying platforms, doc sharing platforms. Basic knowledge safety regulation (GDPR). Cyber safety.
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K34: Verbal communication strategies. Composite business terminology.
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K35: Written communication strategies.
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K36: Rules of staff working. Equality, range and inclusion.
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K37: Planning, prioritising, and time administration strategies.
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Abilities
S1: Overview drawings, directions, or data to know job.
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S2: Plan work. Determine and organise sources.
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S3: Determine hazards and dangers within the office.
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S4: Apply well being and security procedures in compliance with rules and requirements.
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S5: Apply environmental and sustainability procedures in compliance with rules and requirements.
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S6: Apply sustainability ideas for instance, in alternative of supplies, minimising waste.
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S7: Put together and use mould instruments.
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S8: Choose and verify hand instruments, gear and equipment together with calibration report.
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S9: Use or function hand instruments, gear, and equipment.
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S10: Retailer mould instruments, hand instruments, and gear.
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S11: Choose, verify, and put together supplies for instance, weigh resins, reduce reinforcement.
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S12: Observe high quality management processes throughout manufacture for instance, verify for contaminants, report batch numbers or expiry dates.
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S13: Apply laminate to mould for instance, reduce, add darts, nook definition, orientation, place, and order.
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S14: Full preparation for and begin curing course of for instance, choose and apply consumables for instance vacuum bag, infuse with resin, add warmth or strain.
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S15: Extract product from mould (get away).
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S16: Conduct remaining product high quality assurance process. For instance, conduct grading parameters checks (measurement, look, weight), and take samples for laboratory testing.
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S17: Determine points for instance, de-laminations, inclusions, floor defects, floor imperfections, and upkeep necessities.
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S18: Escalate points exterior limits of accountability.
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S19: Segregate sources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
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S20: Report or enter knowledge – paper based mostly or digital. For instance, course of and manufacturing data, traceability data, and high quality assurance data.
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S21: Interpret knowledge for instance, defect knowledge and geometrical measurements. Use knowledge to validate recommendations.
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S22: Examine an issue to establish the underlying trigger. Determine an answer to the issue.
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S23: Apply steady enchancment strategies. Devise recommendations for enchancment. For instance, enhancing the power consumption or waste profile of processes and procedures to enhance the sustainability or carbon footprint of a product, course of, or job.
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S24: Apply staff working ideas.
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S25: Talk with others verbally for instance, colleagues and stakeholders.
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S26: Talk in written type within the office for instance, handover notes or emails, non-conformances, design change requests.
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S27: Use data know-how for work duties. Adjust to GDPR and cyber safety rules and insurance policies.
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S28: Plan methods to meet private improvement wants. Perform and report deliberate and unplanned continued skilled improvement (CPD) actions. Consider CPD towards plans made.
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