PURPOSE OF THE QUALIFICATION

The combination of learning outcomes that comprise this qualification will provide the qualifying learner with vocational knowledge and skills appropriate to the context of production technology.

This qualification provides learners with the range of learning and skills required to be able to perform a series of activities to support manufacturing, engineering and technology processes. Learners will acquire a range of skills in the identification of production parameters in manufacturing, engineering and technology industries and basic strategies to achieve them.

The qualifying learner will be able to:

• Measure, control and improve factors influencing productivity.
• Contribute to budgeting processes in an operational unit to optimise resources.
• Solve operational problems in a production process.
• Promote, implement and maintain procedures that support quality assurance and control.

This qualification is the third qualification in a pathway of three (3) qualifications for learners in the production technology environment.

EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES

1. Measure, control and improve factors influencing production.
   Range: Factors include not limited to MRP, Just in Time (JIT), logistics, supply chains, value chains, labour, materials, capacity planning, maintenance, scheduling and planning, ergonomics, capability studies, work study techniques, statistical process control, reliability studies.
2. Contribute to budgeting processes in an operational unit to optimise resources.
3. Solve operational problems in a production process.
4. Promote, implement and maintain procedures that support quality assurance and control.