Application

This unit of competency defines the skills and knowledge required to undertake preventive maintenance checks/adjustments on pneumatic systems, and fault-find, replace, repair or overhaul and recommission pneumatic systems.
It applies to pneumatic systems in industrial and mobile plant and equipment used in manufacturing, agricultural, forestry, mining and transport industries.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Band: B
Unit Weight: 4

What You'll Learn

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
• obtaining and interpreting maintenance reports and preventative maintenance schedules
• inspecting and testing pneumatic system components, assemblies or sub-assemblies and carrying out preventative maintenance tasks to predetermined specifications using fluid power principles, tools and equipment
• checking component parts visually and dimensionally for compliance to specification and, where appropriate, marking faulty parts for repair, replacement or adjustment
• consulting with system operator and carrying out visual inspection of pneumatic system and components with respect to the fault being investigated and other anomalies
• undertaking fault-finding and verifying and confirming faults/malfunctions
• isolating and depressurising system or sub-assembly, confirming and using appropriate tagging system according to SOPs
• removing, dismantling and repairing/overhauling faulty system components or sub-assembly, including selecting replacement parts from manufacturers’/suppliers' catalogues, to site or manufacturers’ specifications
• assembling pneumatic components or sub-assembly for compliance to specifications, refitting items to equipment and testing for correct operation
• recommissioning pneumatic system/sub-assembly to specifications and verifying correct operation and initiating any follow-up procedures
• updating and completing maintenance records and/or service reports.

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)
• pneumatic principles
• manufacturers’ specifications and structure of common pneumatic system components and their constituent parts
• pneumatic system/component faults that can be determined by visual inspection
• application of common pneumatic system/component test equipment
• scheduled preventative maintenance tasks
• common pneumatic system and component faults and any previous faults
• any previous maintenance carried out on the pneumatic system/components
• typical checks/tests that can be carried out on pneumatic systems/components and their application
• pneumatic system/component tests and testing techniques
• apparent faults/malfunctions
• documentation/reporting requirements with respect to verified faults/malfunctions
• procedures for initiating repair and/or overhaul of the pneumatic system
• procedures for isolating and depressurising pneumatic systems
• tagging requirements for isolated systems
• appropriate repair/overhaul procedures of pneumatic components
• pneumatic system operational specifications and system recommissioning procedures
• any appropriate follow-up maintenance or operational checks
• maintenance recording/reporting requirements and consequences of inaccurate or incomplete recording/reporting of maintenance/service activities.

Assessment Conditions

• Assessors must:
• have vocational competency in maintaining pneumatic systems 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 occur in a functioning workplace. Where assessment in the workplace would be unsafe, impractical or threatens the environment, assessment must occur in a sufficiently rigorous simulated environment that reflects the circumstances that would be experienced in a functioning workplace. Assessment must cover all aspects of workplace performance, including task skills, task management skills, contingency management skills and job role environment skills.
• 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

• {'skill': 'Foundation Skills', 'description': 'This section describes those required skills (reading, writing, oral communication and numeracy) that are essential to workplace performance in this unit of competency.\nFoundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.'}

Prerequisite Units

• MEM09002
• MEM11011
• MEM12023
• MEM12024
• MEM13015
• MEM14006
• MEM16006
• MEM18001
• MEM18002
• MEM18003
• MEM18006
• MEM18018
• MEM18055

Parent Qualifications

• MEM40119 — Certificate IV in Engineering
  MEM

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