Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to design experiments to confirm viability of process improvements.
This unit applies to technical experts and similar roles who are required to identify areas for significant or breakthrough improvement and use statistical methods to design and run experiments and confirm results.
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:
• design, conduct and analyse and confirm results from at least one experiment.

Knowledge Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has knowledge of:
• statistical principles and analysis including:
• analysis of means (ANOM)
• prediction equations
• analysis of variance (ANOVA)/one-way ANOVA
• desirability function
• hit a target
• advanced graphical data analysis
• multi-variate planning
• variation trees and funnelling
• hypothesis testing
• central limit theorem
• statistical analysis roadmap
• analysis for means and t-test
• correlation and regression
• factorial analysis principles and methods
• acceptance criteria and confidence levels
• selection and use of statistics packs.

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 interpret workplace documents\n• Writing skills to document data and results of experiments\n• Oral communication skills to consult with stakeholders to determine experiment objective and confirm design\n• Numeracy skills to determine metrics relevant to experiments.\nOther foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit.'}

Prerequisite Units

• MSS404056

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