Domain - Knitting Machine Technical Servicing

Check knitted production for quality

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4793 Unit Standard 3 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work on industrial knitting machines and monitor quality in a knitting room. People credited with this unit standard are able to sample and assess knitting production according to technical specifications, and identify knitting production varying from the technical specifications and carry out reporting and documentation procedures.

Consent & Moderation Requirements:

CMR 30

Standard-setting body:

Hanga-Aro-Rau Manufacturing, Engineering and Logistics Workforce Development Council

Supervise industrial knitting plant operation and production
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4501 Unit Standard 36 Credits

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This unit standard is for senior technical personnel working with any types of industrial knitting machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to: disassemble, repair, and refit technically complex mechanisms; implement production schedules; supervise and implement lubrication and machine-maintenance schedules; supervise training programmes of knitting room personnel; plan and supervise work schedules of mechanics; control spare parts inventory; and identify the fabrics, structures, and patterns within the productive capability of the plant.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Carry out knitted fabric production and costing calculations
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4502 Unit Standard 10 Credits

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This unit standard is for senior technical personnel working with any types of industrial knitting machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to: calculate knitting machine production rates; calculate knitting plant production performance; measure sample knitting times and wastages; measure and evaluate yarn usages in knitted samples; and calculate knitting costs of samples.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Set up and maintain yarn-furnishing devices to specification
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4504 Unit Standard 6 Credits

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This unit standard is for senior technical personnel working with any types of weft-knitting machines fitted with yarn-furnishing devices. People credited with this unit standard are able to set up and adjust yarn-furnishing devices to quality specifications, and repair and service yarn-furnishing devices.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Carry out knitted fabric analysis calculations
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4507 Unit Standard 4 Credits

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This unit standard is for senior technical personnel working with any types of industrial knitting machines, and for quality control/quality assurance personnel in any of the sectors of the knitting industry. People credited with this unit standard are able to: measure yarns for length and weight to calculate yarn counts; convert yarn counts between different counting systems; relate yarn counts to machine gauge and stitch density; calculate fabric weights and yields; and calculate percentage fibre-content of knitted fabrics composed of different fibres.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Prepare control programmes for knitting machines with mechanical control systems
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4508 Unit Standard 14 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the preparation of programmes for style changes on machines that use a mechanical control system by means of which changes can be made in the structures during the course of knitting. People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare a control programme for a section of a knitted article for addition, or substitution, into an existing programme, and prepare a control programme for a complete knitted article.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Prepare pattern-selection programmes for knitting machines with mechanical pattern-selection systems
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4509 Unit Standard 7 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the preparation of designs for industrial knitting machines that use a mechanical system of pattern selection such as pattern chains, pegged drums and geometric jack set-outs, steel cards, or pattern drums. People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare a knitting sequence programme for a pattern, and monitor the knitting of the pattern for conformity to product specification.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Prepare control programmes for knitting machines with electro-mechanical control systems
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4510 Unit Standard 14 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the preparation of programmes for style changes on machines that use an electro-mechanical control system, such as 'Cardomatic', by means of which changes can be made in the structures during the course of knitting. This applies to machines such as full-fashioned and circular garment-length machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare a control programme for a section of a knitted article for addition, or substitution, into an existing programme, and prepare a control programme for a complete knitted panel or set of panels.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Prepare electro-mechanical pattern-selection programmes for knitting machines
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4511 Unit Standard 7 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the preparation of designs for industrial knitting machines that use an electro-mechanical system of pattern selection, such as 'Electrotape'. People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare a knitting sequence programme for a pattern, and monitor the knitting of the pattern for conformity to product specification.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Adjust and repair electro-mechanical selection systems for knitting machines
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4512 Unit Standard 4 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work on industrial knitting machines that use electro-mechanical selection systems to control pattern-selection and structure-changes. People credited with this unit standard are able to adjust and repair the mechanical units of the control systems, and adjust and repair the electrical units of the control systems.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Prepare design programmes for computer-controlled knitting machines without CAD
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4726 Unit Standard 5 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the preparation of designs for industrial knitting machines that are controlled by computer-generated pattern programme, but where pattern preparation is done without the assistance of a dedicated computer-aided design (CAD) or graphics system. People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare design programmes for computer-controlled knitting machines without CAD.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Prepare computer-assisted design and control programmes for knitting machines with CAD
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4727 Unit Standard 5 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the Raschel, half-hose, full-length hosiery, and circular piecegoods sectors of the knitting industry, and to the preparation of programmes for style and design changes on machines controlled by dedicated computer-generated programmes that are initiated through a dedicated computer-aided design (CAD) or graphics system. People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare a programme for a knitting machine with computer-aided design facilities, and modify an existing programme for a knitting machine with computer-aided design facilities.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design patterns and constructions for knitting on tricot machines
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4730 Unit Standard 8 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work with tricot warp-knitting machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify single guide bar lapping movements used in the construction of tricot fabrics; specify the constructional details of full-set, two-bar tricot fabrics; demonstrate knowledge of the constructional details of part-set, two-bar tricot fabrics; demonstrate knowledge of the constructional details of tricot fabrics made by means of two full-set guide bars and full-set and part-set front bar; demonstrate knowledge of the constructional details of Simplex fabric; analyse tricot fabrics and prepare technical specifications for their production; and design tricot fabrics and prepare technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse full-length hosiery constructions
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4731 Unit Standard 3 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work with full-length hosiery industrial circular knitting machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to identify basic fabric constructions for full-length hosiery, and analyse basic full-length hosiery constructions and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design patterned full-length hosiery
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4732 Unit Standard 5 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work with full-length hosiery industrial circular knitting machines that have a patterning capability through the means of a mechanical or electronic jacquard needle-selection system. People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse and notate full-length hosiery jacquard patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production, and design full-length hosiery jacquard patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design structures for knitting on multi-track circular piecegoods machines
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4780 Unit Standard 5 Credits

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People credited with this unit standard are able to: analyse, identify and notate plain, fleecy, rib, tuck, miss-knit, interlock, non-double jersey, plain double jersey fabrics and their variants on multi-track circular piecegoods machines; prepare machine specific technical specifications for their production; and design and prepare machine specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design weft knitted structures and patterns produced by cam changes
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4781 Unit Standard 4 Credits

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This unit standard relates to structures knitted on industrial machines such as sock, circular garment-length, and flat bed machines without the use of pattern selection, and includes fabrics made by means of long and short or high and low butt needles, needle set-outs, miss-knitting, tucking, and needle-bed racking on flat bed machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to: analyse, identify, and notate plain and rib fabrics and their variants and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production; analyse, identify, and notate tuck and miss-knit variants of rib fabrics and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production; identify and notate constructional details of welts; identify and notate the constructional details of the transition from the finish of one knitted article to the start course of the next; and design articles in rib fabric and rib variants and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design purl (links/links) structures and patterns
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4783 Unit Standard 4 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the analysis and design of purl or links/links patterns capable of being knitted on double-cylinder circular garment-length and sock machines, and flat bed machines - either purl or stitch-transfer rib machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify and notate the constructional details of basic purl structures and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production; analyse, notate, and prepare machine-specific technical specifications of purl fabric patterns and constructions for their incorporation into pattern and control programmes as feature motifs; and design purl-stitch patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their incorporation into pattern and control programmes as feature motifs.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design coloured jacquard patterns for socks and knitwear
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4785 Unit Standard 4 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work with sock, flat bed, and circular garment-length industrial knitting machines that have jacquard patterning capabilities through geometric systems such as pegged drums or "Mechatape"-type units and electronic needle-selection, and products that include patterning in single jersey jacquard or Fair Isle, or float stitch, and rib jacquard for socks and knitwear. People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse, notate, and prepare machine-specific technical specifications of coloured jacquard patterns for their production; and design coloured jacquard patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design plated patterns and structures
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4787 Unit Standard 4 Credits

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This unit standard applies to industrial weft-knitting machines that have the capability of feeding two yarns simultaneously to the needles in a controlled manner so that various forms of plated fabrics are produced, and to the technical personnel who work on these machines. Such machines include wrap-stripe sock and piecegoods machines, models of full-fashioned and flat bed, machines and machines with a terry capability. People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse, notate, and prepare machine-specific technical specifications of plated fabrics and patterns for their production; and design plated fabrics and patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design self-coloured patterns based on tuck and float stitches on plain fabric
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4790 Unit Standard 4 Credits

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This unit standard relates to half-hose, full-fashioned, flat bed, and circular garment-length machines capable of knitting plain fabric or sections of plain fabric and including patterns of tuck and float stitches in self-coloured plain fabric, and is for technical personnel who work with machines of these types. People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse, notate, and prepare machine-specific technical specifications of plain fabric tuck-stitch and float-stitch patterns for their production; and design plain fabric tuck-stitch and float-stitch patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Change machine gauges on half-hose, circular piecegoods, or circular garment-length machines
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4503 Unit Standard 12 Credits

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This unit standard is for senior technical personnel working with half-hose, circular piecegoods and circular garment-length machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to: remove the knitting machine cylinder(s); fit the replacement cylinder or bottom cylinder in place; set the replacement top cylinder or dial or sinker ring into place; refit the knitting head, drives, creel, and all assemblies above the knitting head; and set the machine for knitting.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Change gauge on flat bed weft-knitting machines
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4505 Unit Standard 12 Credits

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This unit standard is for senior mechanics and technicians of flat bed machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to: remove the needle beds, racking cam, and other units dedicated to the gauge being changed; fit replacement needle bed racking cam and needle beds; refit all assemblies above the needle beds and assemblies dedicated to the gauge of the replacement beds; replace the carriage; and set the machine for knitting.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Prepare control programmes for computer-controlled knitting machines without CAD
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4723 Unit Standard 8 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the preparation of programmes for style changes on machines that are controlled by dedicated computer-generated programmes, but where the programme of knitting sequences and changes is prepared without the assistance of a computer-aided design (CAD) system. People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare a control programme for a section of a knitted style for addition, or substitution, into an existing programme, and prepare a control programme for a complete knitted style.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Prepare control programmes for electronic flat bed knitting machines without CAD
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4724 Unit Standard 21 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the preparation of programmes for style changes on flat bed machines controlled by dedicated computer-generated programmes, but where the programme of knitting sequences and changes is prepared without the assistance of a computer-aided design (CAD) system. People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare a style control programme for a section of a knitted panel for addition, or substitution, into an existing programme, and prepare a control programme for a complete knitted style.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Prepare supplementary control programmes for electronic flat bed machines without CAD
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4725 Unit Standard 12 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the use of specific models of electronic flat bed machines controlled by non-CAD dedicated computer-generated programmes are equipped with extra facilities that require additional elements to their programmes when style changes are being prepared. People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare supplementary control programmes for electronic flat bed machines without CAD.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Prepare style programmes for full-fashioned, flat bed or circular garment-length machines with CAD
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4728 Unit Standard 16 Credits

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This unit standard relates to the full-fashioned, flat bed, and circular garment-length sectors of the knitting industry, and to the preparation of programmes for style and design changes on machines controlled by dedicated computer-generated programmes that are initiated through a dedicated computer-aided design (CAD) or graphics system. People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare a programme for a knitting machine with computer-aided design facilities, and modify an existing programme for a knitting machine with computer-aided design facilities.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Adjust and service computerised control systems for knitting machines
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4729 Unit Standard 6 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work on computer-controlled industrial knitting machines in which many or all of the functions of the machines operate from dedicated computer-generated programmes. People credited with this unit standard are able to repair faults in the circuitry of an electronic control system operating an industrial knitting machine, and test and monitor the control system for correct operation and control of all machine functions.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design patterns and constructions for knitting on Raschel machines
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4779 Unit Standard 8 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work with Raschel warp-knitting machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to: specify the constructional details of the ground structures of single needle bar Raschel fabrics; demonstrate knowledge of basic features and constructional details of patterned Raschel allover fabrics; demonstrate knowledge of the basic features and constructional details of Raschel curtain-net fabrics; demonstrate knowledge of 2-needle bar Raschel fabrics; analyse Raschel fabrics and constructions and prepare technical specifications for their construction; and design Raschel fabrics and prepare technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design shaped knitted articles or components based on plain fabric
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4782 Unit Standard 4 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work with half-hose and full-length hosiery machines and specialist machines, such as glove and beret machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse and notate shaped knitted structures and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their integration into the main control programme; and design shaped knitted structures and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their integration into the main control programme.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design fine-gauge jacquard circular piecegoods fabrics
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4784 Unit Standard 12 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work with circular piecegoods industrial knitting machines that have full jacquard patterning capabilities through pattern wheels, mechanical selection of needles through geometric systems such as "Minijac", pegged drums or disc stacks, and electronic selection units. People credited with this unit standard are able to: analyse, notate, and prepare machine-specific technical specifications of jacquard piecegoods fabrics for their production; analyse, notate, and prepare machine-specific technical specifications of relief piecegoods fabrics for their production; design jacquard piecegoods fabrics and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production; and design relief fabrics and prepare full machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design rib stitch-transfer patterns
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4786 Unit Standard 7 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work with flat bed and circular garment-length industrial knitting machines that have jacquard patterning capabilities through geometric systems such as pegged drums or "Mechatape"-type units and electronic needle-selection, and produce knitted garment panels featuring rib stitch-transfer patterns for ladies' underwear or knitwear. People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse, notate, and prepare machine-specific technical specifications of rib stitch-transfer patterns for their production; and design rib stitch-transfer patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design Intarsia patterns
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4788 Unit Standard 7 Credits

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This unit standard is for the technical personnel who work on sock, full-fashioned and flat bed industrial knitting machines that have the capability of making true Intarsia or true Argyle patterns. People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse, notate, and prepare machine-specific technical specifications of Intarsia patterns for their production; and design Intarsia patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design patterns based on plain fabric and full-fashioned lace techniques
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4789 Unit Standard 5 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work on full-fashioned machines with lacing capabilities, and flat bed machines with selective stitch-transfer facilities. People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse, notate, and prepare machine-specific technical specifications of full-fashioned type lace patterns for their production; and design full-fashioned type lace patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design Aran and other patterns based on stitch transfer and needle-bed racking
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4791 Unit Standard 14 Credits

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This unit standard relates to purl and rib stitch-transfer industrial flat bed machines and to patterns that are made by means of needle-bed racking, such as Aran, and leaf, feather, and other openwork patterns imitative of hand-knitting patterns and the technical personnel who work on machines of these types. People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse and notate racked stitch-transfer patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production, and design racked stitch-transfer patterns and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Analyse and design fabrics containing flechage, appendage, entrelac, and similar pattern elements
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4792 Unit Standard 10 Credits

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This unit standard relates to rib stitch-transfer industrial flat-bed knitting machines and the technical personnel who work on machines of this type capable of knitting pattern areas of flechage, appendage fabric, entrelac structures, and similar. People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse and notate four novel flat bed patterning elements and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production, and design novel flat bed patterning elements and prepare machine-specific technical specifications for their production.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile

Evaluate results of quality control checks and apply results to knitting machines

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4794 Unit Standard 7 Credits

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This unit standard is for technical personnel who work on industrial knitting machines and relates to the results of quality checks on the production of the knitting room. People credited with this unit standard are able to evaluate the results of quality checks on knitted production, and make or supervise adjustments and alterations to knitting machines where production does not conform to technical specifications.

Consent & Moderation Requirements:

CMR 30

Standard-setting body:

Hanga-Aro-Rau Manufacturing, Engineering and Logistics Workforce Development Council

Carry out technically critical repairs to full-fashioned machines
This standard has expired and is no longer available.

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4506 Unit Standard 42 Credits

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This unit standard is for senior mechanics and technicians of full-fashioned machines. People credited with this unit standard are able to: reset adjustable cam-noses; re-time engineering cams to templates; and recam the machine and re-time cams.

Standard-setting body:

Competenz - Plastics and Materials Processing - Apparel and Textile