Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Apparel Manufacturing Technology
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits33
- Guided learning200 hours
- Units in this qualification25
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Assemble garments for fittingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare garments for assembly
- Assemble garment for fitting
Assess and develop given apparel designsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the company product range and production locations
- Evaluate the design, cost andproduction requirements to meet the customers’ needs
- Action amendments to thedesign to meet all requirements
Assess customer requirements and take measurementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify relevant measurements for the garment
- Take complete set of measurements
- Record and assess the measurements and the customer’s figuration
Complete garment to customer specificationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare garments for final assembly
- Carry out alterations to garments to meet requirements for final assembly
- Produce garments that meet specification requirements and customer satisfaction
Construct and adapt patterns to customer requirementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create blocks to meet specified requirements
- Use the appropriate markings on blocks accurately
- Present completed patterns within agreed schedules
- Complete accurate reports and inform appropriate people of results.
Contribute to the production of outsourced apparel productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the products that are to be outsourced or produced onsite.
- Manage the production of outsourced products
- Identify their own role in the outsourcing of products
Create and maintain technical documents and records in garment constructionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about recording systems and requirements
- Understand the impact of legislative and contractual requirements on design and technical specification
- Use the correct documentation and meet requirements
- Create a product specification
- Produce final working documents and specifications in consultation with relevant personnel
- Demonstrate workplace skills
Fit and re-cut garments to customer requirementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and arrange for a customer fitting
- Conduct a fitting with the customer
- Make any necessary adjustments to the garment.
Handle and measure garments to ensure compliance with requirementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for measuring and handling of garments
- Handle garments as in the specifications
- Measure and check garments throughout the process
- Record and correct any deviations from the specification
Identify and agree the construction of garments to be producedReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use organisational and production methods to meet the needs of suggested designs
- Know about construction methods to meet requirements
- Use the required procedures and practices to select the designs to be produced
- Know about good practice, quality and documentary standards and requirements within an organisation.
Investigate markets, materials and stylesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research current markets, materials and styles
- Evaluate the markets and identify competitors
- Identify new markets that might enhance your organisation’s product base and communicate any recommendations
Lay up, mark-in and cut materialsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare materials and lays to meet specification requirements
- Carry out marking in the lay
- Identify faults and perform diagnosis and rectification methods
- Cut parts and store them, meeting quality and quantity requirements.
Maintain the quality of production working with textiles, leather and MaterialsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Check for faults
- Rectify faults
- Understand the impact of faults on the production process
- Recognise own place within the production process
Maintaining the work area for manufacturing sewn productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain tools and equipment
- Maintain cleanliness of own work area
- Maintain own wellbeing
Make up and assemble apparel samplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare resources to make up garment.
- Meet the laying requirements for patterns.
- Cut garment components and prepare interfacings required to meet requirements for garment production.
- Select and use production processes, procedures and techniques for the garments ensuring all design features are met.
- Select and use appropriate hand sewing and finishing procedures
- Select and use diagnostic and corrective methods and techniques.
- Use safe working practices that conform to current legislative requirements and codes of practice
Make up apparel products from patternsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare resources to make up garment.
- Meet the laying requirements for patterns.
- Cut garment components and prepare interfacings required to meet requirements for garment production.
- Select and use production processes, procedures and techniques for the garments ensuring all design features are met.
- Select and use appropriate hand sewing and finishing procedures
- Select and use diagnostic and corrective methods and techniques.
- Use safe working practices that conform to current legislative requirements and codes of practice
Monitor compliance with requirements in garment constructionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about pre-production for different garments
- Know about organisational and customer requirements to be met
- Diagnose and rectify faults prior to production
- Know about specifications, quality standards and finishing requirements
Plan apparel production scheduleReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Inform a production schedule
- Develop an outline of a production schedule
- Finalise a production schedule
Produce block and graded patterns for apparel productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about international sizing standards and their application
- Interpret information to produce block patterns
- Create a block pattern
- Grade a block pattern
Produce final apparel product specificationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to product sourcing and costing
- Compile product specification
- Organise requirements for production
Produce lay plans for apparel productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate fabric characteristics against design and order requirements
- Produce a pattern layout to meet production schedule requirements
- Produce final lay plan to meet production schedule requirements
- Manage documentation and information
Produce prototype / sample patterns and assess for fitReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Produce final working drawings that contain all necessary information to create first patterns
- Apply systems to production sampling
- Complete master patterns clearly and presenting them in a form that is appropriate to all relevant personnel
- Review the production process and implement any necessary modifications
- Produce work in line with critical paths
Produce sample garments for manufactureReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret specifications and communicate with colleagues
- Identify any machinery that could improve the efficiency when completing the sample garment
- Use suitable work methods to achieve specifications within the timescales specified
Provide technical feedback on sample garmentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate sample production against full production needs
- Communicate information about sample analysis effectively
- Ensure final production feasibility
Solve quality issues for sample apparel productionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor sample garment production throughout the sample production process
- Identify any deviations from the specification requirements and their effect on the quality of the sample garment
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Assess and develop given designs
- Assess candidates through direct observation in the workplace
- Complete garment after a fitting
- Contribute to the production of outsourced products
- Create and maintain technical documents and records
- Create basic patterns for footwear and leathergoods
- Create block patterns
- Identify and agree product construction
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Apparel Manufacturing Technology
25 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Assemble garments for fitting
- Assess and develop given apparel designs
- Assess customer requirements and take measurements
- Complete garment to customer specification
- Construct and adapt patterns to customer requirements
- Contribute to the production of outsourced apparel products
and 19 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
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- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
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- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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