Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to design a new or redesign an existing product (process, product or service) and its production process to achieve optimal sustainability outcomes.
This unit applies to managers, operational or technical experts or similar roles who are required to liaise with the internal or external customer and to investigate, evaluate and innovate to achieve agreed product and process specifications. The specifications will reflect decisions for ‘improved’ outcomes in direct, indirect and/or intangible sustainability impact.
This unit does not require the use of design software, detailed drawing or visual design skills.
This unit applies to any organisation.
No licensing or certification requirements exist at the time of publication. Relevant legislation, industry standards and codes of practice within Australia must be applied.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has completed the tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit, and demonstrated the ability to:
• develop and evaluate sustainability impact of at least 2 sets of design options which include both product design and production design
• negotiate and confirm design specifications for optimal sustainability outcomes for at least one process, product or service.

Knowledge Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has knowledge of:
• sustainability impacts from using different materials and different processes and to produce products of different specifications
• current and emerging design approaches to improve sustainability and the impact throughout the life of a process, product or service including:
• human-centred and iterative design
• designing out waste and pollution
• choice of materials, resources and energy
• reduction of material, resources and energy usage including digitalisation, dematerialisation, shared resources, service-based ‘products’
• extended product life including modularity, repairability, stewardship, remanufacturing
• alternative sources of materials and components related to the product design and the sustainability differences of each
• alternative processes related to the production design and the sustainability differences of each
• current and emerging approaches to quantifying and evaluating costs, benefits, impacts and risks in relation to sustainability, including direct, indirect and intangible factors
• carbon equivalence and conversion factors
• design documentation and approvals requirements.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment that reflects workplace conditions and contingencies. The following conditions must be met for this unit:
• use of suitable facilities, equipment and resources
• modelling of industry operating conditions.
Assessors must satisfy the NVR/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Foundation Skills', 'description': 'This section describes those language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills that are essential to performance but not explicit in the performance criteria.\n• Reading skills to review information on approaches to sustainability\n• Writing skills to document design specifications\n• Oral communication skills to negotiate with customer and other stakeholders\n• Numeracy skills to quantify direct and intangible aspects of sustainability impact\n• Learning skills to identify information needs and sources of information.\nOther foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit.'}

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