MEM18007B - Maintain and repair mechanical drives and mechanical transmission assemblies

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Unit code: MEM18007B | Study level: TAFE
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Overview

This unit covers diagnosing faults and repairing drives and
transmission assemblies, and undertaking final adjustment
and commissioning.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • locating, reading and interpreting information on written job instructions, specifications, manufacturers' instructions, standard workshop manuals/procedures, drawings, charts, lists and other reference documentation;
  • checking and clarifying task-related information;
  • interpreting manufacturers' catalogues or engineering specifications;
  • undertaking diagnostic and testing;
  • analysing operational performance;
  • planning and sequencing operations;
  • completing proformas, standard workplace forms and short reports using relevant terminology;
  • checking for conformance to specifications;
  • measuring components to specified tolerances;
  • undertaking calculations for determining cutting parameters and checking tolerances;
  • undertaking numerical operations and engineering calculations/formulae within the scope of this unit;
  • following verbal instructions, and;
  • orally reporting information.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system. .

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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