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How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer PIABC Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and PIABC Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from PIABC Ltd.

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01What it is

A specialist awarding body offering regulated qualifications, end point assessment and quality assurance services in the materials cycle

These are the units PIABC 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with PIABC Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. PIABC Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Tooling technology materials and processes Real unit · PIABC Ltd
You'll gain knowledge of tooling technology materials and processes, including characteristics of tooling materials, annealing and tempering, material suitability, costs, relevant regulations, cutter properties, and lubricants and coolants.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key characteristics of different tooling materials, including their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Understand annealing and tempering processes and their effects on tooling materials.
  • Understand the suitability of different materials for specific tooling applications.
  • Understand the factors that contribute to the overall cost of tooling materials.
  • Understand the relevant regulations and safety standards that apply to tooling technology and materials.
  • Understand the properties of different types of cutters used in tooling processes.
  • Understand the purpose and application of lubricants and coolants in tooling operations.
  • Understand the use of templates in tooling and manufacturing processes.
  • Understand wood machining processes and techniques relevant to identified tooling.
Understanding the wood and timber industry Real unit · PIABC Ltd
This unit provides learners with an understanding of the wood and timber industry, including its structure, key organisations, Chain of Custody principles, and employment opportunities within the sector.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and key organisations within the wood and timber industry.
  • Understand the organisation's role and responsibilities within the wood and timber industry.
  • Understand the principles and processes of Chain of Custody certification for wood and timber products.
  • Know the range of employment opportunities available within the wood and timber industries.
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03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Comply with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements in wood operations

    Standard

  • Source timber and timber based products in a commercial environment

    Standard
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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by PIABC Ltd rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Tooling technology materials and processesUnderstanding the wood and timber industry

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Rather than work through “Tooling technology materials and processes” in the abstract, bring me the piece of it you are dealing with this week.
You I have got the write-up due Friday and I have not started it.
The Coach Then that is the lesson. Tell me what it has to say, and we will get the shape of it down before we worry about the words.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring the real thing Apply

    “Tooling technology materials and processes” is taught against the work in front of you rather than a worked example. You bring what you are doing this week and it becomes the practice.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Tooling technology materials and processes, one of this qualification's own units.

Tooling technology materials and processes Level 2

Applied to your own work

Learners will gain knowledge of tooling technology materials and processes, including characteristics of tooling materials, annealing and tempering, material suitability, costs, relevant regulations, cutter properties, and lubricants and coolants.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for PIABC Level 2 Award In Tooling Technology - Materials and Processes

2 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by PIABC Ltd.

  1. Tooling technology materials and processes
  2. Understanding the wood and timber industry
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.