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Title Create and maintain telecommunications production schedules

Level 4 Credits 4

Purpose This unit standard is for people who currently are, or will be, working in a manufacturing environment and creating production schedules. People assessed as competent in this unit standard are able to create schedules for gathered information, and maintain schedules to ensure production of telecommunications goods and services is by the agreed time.

Classification Telecommunications > Telecommunications - Provide Goods and Services

Available grade Achieved

Guidance Information None.

Outcomes and performance criteria Outcome 1 Create production schedules. Performance criteria 1.1 Production requirements are identified from customer orders and in-house

forecasts.

Range products, volumes, quantities, delivery dates. 1.2 Draft production schedule is determined from identified production

requirements, raw material stock levels, lead times, and manufacturing capacity.

Range includes material requirements, completion dates, and delivery response times; labour, materials, machinery, time.

1.3 Draft production schedule is agreed with relevant authorised personnel prior to

development of master production schedule.

Range management, head of production, sales and marketing, other relevant parties affected by production schedule.

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1.4 Requisitions for identified material requirements are received by authorised

purchasing personnel by the agreed time.

Range materials, code numbers, supplier's references, including supply dates.

1.5 Anticipated constraints to production schedule are identified and contingencies

are developed, agreed, and implemented when required to optimise production performance.

Range material shortages, outages, raw materials out of specification,

resources, power failures, delivery problems. 1.6 Master production schedule is current, accurate, complete and available to

authorised personnel by the agreed time.

Range management, production staff. Outcome 2 Monitor and maintain production schedules. Performance criteria 2.1 Variations to production schedules are identified and causes for variation are

recorded in the agreed format.

Range delays, disruptions; causes – material shortages, labour constraints, machinery

breakdown, human error, customer requirements or changes to specifications, quantity or delivery.

2.2 Contingency plans for identified causes of variations are developed, agreed,

and implemented promptly. 2.3 Master production schedule is revised and includes supplementary material

requirements. 2.4 Purchase requisitions for supplementary materials are raised and received by

purchasing promptly. 2.5 Revised master production schedule is available to authorised personnel

promptly.

This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by the last date for assessment set out below.

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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions

Process Version Date Last Date for Assessment

Registration 1 28 July 1995 31 December 2018

Revision 2 31 August 1998 31 December 2018

Revision 3 3 April 2001 31 December 2018

Rollover 4 25 January 2008 31 December 2018

Review 5 1 March 2018 31 December 2018

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