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Application

This unit of competency defines the skills and knowledge required to check the balance and balancing of equipment.

Balancing may include the addition or removal of material and all specifications for machine operation and degree of balance to be supplied.

Where wheel and tyre balancing is required unit MEM27029 Maintain wheels and tyres should be selected.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

What You'll Learn

1. Determine job requirements

  • 1.1 Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  • 1.2 Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
  • 1.3 Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
  • 1.4 Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions

2. Check balance

  • 2.1 Apply principles of equipment balance testing
  • 2.2 Select most appropriate balancing check procedure
  • 2.3 Set up component correctly and to site/manufacturer’s procedures for balance check
  • 2.4 Determine balance/out-of-balance and compare to specification requirements
  • 2.5 Record out-of-balance readings to prescribed procedures

3. Balance equipment

  • 3.1 Apply principles and methods of rigid and/or flexible rotation balancing
  • 3.2 Use techniques of single and/or multi-plane balancing appropriate to application
  • 3.3 Balance equipment utilising correct procedures

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least two (2) occasions and include:

following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and safe work practices

identifying and interpreting specifications, charts, lists and drawings to balance equipment

setting up component to be balanced to site/manufacturer’s procedures and determining balance/out-of-balance and comparing to specifications

operating balance equipment using appropriate techniques safely

checking for compliance to specifications

undertaking numerical operations, geometry, calculations and formulae for balancing equipment.

Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate the required knowledge for this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

safe work practices and procedures and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

principles of balancing and reasons for testing equipment for balance

effect of out of balance components on machine/equipment operation and life

procedures for checking the balance of equipment

most appropriate procedure to be applied to selected balancing situations and reasons for selection

procedures for:

setting up the component to be balanced

operating the balancing equipment

recording out-of-balance readings

balancing out-of-balance equipment

specifications of the component to be balanced

principles and methods of rigid and flexible rotation balancing

techniques of single and multiple plane balancing

appropriate balancing technique for given balancing situations and reasons for selection

precautions to be taken when adding or removing material to achieve balance.

Assessment Conditions

Assessors must:

have vocational competency in balancing equipment at least to the level being assessed with relevant industry knowledge and experience

satisfy the assessor requirements in the Standards for Registered Training Organisations 2015 or its replacement and comply with the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011, its replacement or equivalent legislation covering VET regulation in a non-referring state/territory as the case requires.

Assessment must include evidence of 80 hours of workplace practice associated with the skills of this unit in a functioning workplace.

All aspects of competent application of the unit must be addressed including prerequisite competency units and associated workplace performance, including environment, task skills, task management skills, contingency management skills and job role environment skills.

Knowledge assessment may be either verbal or written but must adequately reflect the knowledge requirements of the unit and its prerequisites in a functioning workplace.

Conditions for assessment must include access to all tools, equipment, materials and documentation required, including relevant workplace procedures, product and manufacturing specifications.

Assessment processes and techniques must be appropriate to the language, literacy and numeracy requirements of the work being performed and the needs of the candidate.

Foundation Skills

  • text: This section describes those required skills (reading, writing, oral communication and numeracy) that are essential to workplace performance in this unit of competency. Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

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Last updated from training.gov.au: 25 February 2026