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- The centre assesses, and Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
The EAL Level 3 Diploma in Machining (Development knowledge) is a vocationally-related qualification. It develops learners' knowledge of engineering mathematics, advanced turning, and manufacturing techniques. Engineering inspection, quality control, and environmental health and safety are also covered.
These are the units Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited 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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Advanced Manufacturing Techniques Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamentals of advanced manufacturing technology installations
- Understand the advantages and limitations of incorporating manufacturing flexibility
- Understand the fundamentals of special manufacturing processes
- Understand the fundamentals of business improvement techniques
Advanced Manufacturing Techniques Computer Numerical Control - CNC Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic concepts of CNC
- Understand basic CNC machine tool design
- Understand tooling and work holding for CNC
- Understand CNC part programming and operation
- Understand CNC operational control and machine setting
Advanced Milling Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand milling operations, equipment and procedures
- Understand the use and functions of rotary tables and dividing heads
- Understand types and uses of cutting tools and boring heads used in milling operations
- Understand quality requirements of checking milled components
Advanced Turning Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the construction and nomenclature of centre lathes and ancillary equipment
- Understand lathe tool selection criteria and the ISO coding for replaceable/indexable inserts and holders
- Understand the factors affecting the turning of a range of common engineering materials
- Understand basic calculations required by turning operations
- Understand techniques used for holding and turning eccentric/non-circular components
- Understand the use of fixed and travelling steadies in turning operations
- Understand advanced turning techniques
Computer Aided Design Techniques Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the risks to health and safety associated with the use of computer equipment and associated peripheral devices, including ergonomic considerations and potential hazards.
- Understand how to manage stored data files effectively and configure a CAD system to meet task requirements, including file naming conventions, backup procedures, and system settings.
- Understand the requirement of CAD drawings and designs to comply with national and international standards and conventions, including dimensioning, tolerancing, and drawing formats.
- Understand how to use a CAD system for the production of complex two-dimensional (2D) engineering drawings and designs, including the creation of geometric entities, annotations, and layers.
- Understand how to modify, copy, manipulate and erase drawn entities, including the use of editing commands and object snaps.
- Understand how to use a CAD system for the production of basic three-dimensional (3D) models and realisations, including the creation of solid models and surface models.
- Understand how to output CAD data to peripheral devices, including printers, plotters, and CNC machines.
Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Programming/Machining Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the risks to health and safety associated with the use of CNC equipment
- Understand the types and application of CNC equipment typically in use within manufacturing industry
- Understand the importance of data preparation for CNC machining
- Understand the relevant calculations typically required for the manufacture of components by the use of CNC equipment
- Understand how to produce coded part programs of structure and format appropriate to CNC equipment in use
- Understand how to input data into CNC controllers and prepare CNC and ancillary equipment for manufacture
- Understand how to prove-out CNC programs and produce a first-off component
- Understand the requirements of first-off component inspection
Engineering Communications Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret and use engineering diagrams to communicate technical information, including orthographic projections, isometric views, and schematic diagrams.
- Use verbal and written communication skills in engineering settings, including preparing reports, giving presentations, and participating in meetings.
- Obtain and use engineering information from various sources, including technical manuals, datasheets, and online resources.
- Use information and communication technology (ICT) to present information in engineering settings, including using presentation software, spreadsheets, and email.
Engineering & Environmental Health and Safety Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety roles and responsibilities
- Understand the application of health and safety in the engineering environment
- Understand the safe moving and storing of materials
- Understand environmental management
Engineering & Environmental Health and Safety Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety roles and responsibilities within an engineering environment
- Understand the application of health and safety principles in the engineering environment
- Understand the safe methods for moving and storing materials in an engineering context
- Understand the principles of environmental management relevant to engineering activities
Engineering Communications Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different forms of communication in engineering
Engineering Mathematics Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply mathematical techniques to solve engineering problems
Engineering Mathematics Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Solve engineering related problems mathematically
- Apply formulas and trigonometric methods to engineering problems
- Use standard formulae to find areas and volumes of engineering components
- Use basic calculus to solve engineering problems
- Use statistical data to analyse engineering information
Engineering design process Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the engineering design process
- Understand the factors that influence the choice of material in a design
- Understand how manufacturing processes influence design
- Understand how economic factors influence design
- Understand the ergonomic principles involved in design
- Understand simple mechanisms
- Understand the safety aspects of design
Engineering inspection and quality control Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how inspection and quality control are key parts of an organisation's quality management system
- Understand the meanings of variation, repeatability, reproducibility, accuracy, tolerance, limit and capability in the context of engineering inspection
- Understand the difference between comparison, gauging and measurement techniques
- Understand which type of gauge to use (gap, plug, plate, feeler, etc.) and how they must be used correctly
- Understand the principles and applications of basic measuring instruments
- Understand advanced measuring techniques and instruments used in engineering inspection
- Understand the term 'geometric tolerance' and common geometric tolerance symbols
- Understand a normal distribution curve and its application to quality control
Engineering organisational efficiency and improvement Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand production activities within an engineering organisation
- Understand the application of quality control measures in engineering
- Understand the application of quality assurance measures in engineering
- Understand organisational improvement techniques and their impact on competitiveness
- Understand personnel rights and responsibilities within an organisation
Further Engineering Mathematics Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Solve engineering related mathematical problems using a range of techniques
- Solve engineering related problems involving trigonometry
- Use complex numbers to solve engineering problems
- Apply calculus to solve basic engineering related problems
Gear Cutting Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand types of gear in common use, including spur gears, helical gears, bevel gears, and worm gears, and their respective applications.
- Understand spur and worm gear nomenclature, including terms such as pitch diameter, module, pressure angle, and lead angle.
- Understand gear materials and gear uses, including the selection of appropriate materials based on strength, wear resistance, and operating conditions.
- Understand methods of forming gear blanks, including casting, forging, and machining.
- Understand the basics of machining gears using milling cutters, including the use of indexing heads and gear cutting tools.
- Understand the basics of gear machining using reciprocating tools, such as shapers and gear planers.
- Understand the basics of gear grinding and honing, including the purpose of these processes in achieving high accuracy and surface finish.
Mechanical engineering principles Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamentals of engineering science, including key scientific principles and their application in engineering contexts.
- Understand the fundamentals of engineering mathematics, including algebraic principles, trigonometry, and calculus, and their application to solving engineering problems.
- Understand the terms limits and fits, when applied to assemblies and components, including the importance of tolerances in ensuring proper functionality.
- Understand the properties of engineering materials, including their mechanical, thermal, and electrical characteristics, and how these properties influence their suitability for different applications.
Precision Grinding Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand precision grinding machines, grinding equipment, procedures and operations
- Understand work holding equipment and setting procedures used for precision grinding activities
- Understand the construction and use of precision grinding wheels
- Understand the construction and use of associated equipment used in grinding operations
- Understand quality requirements of checking precision ground components
Properties and Applications of Engineering Materials Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the properties of engineering materials
Properties and Applications of Engineering Materials Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the structure and classification of engineering materials, including metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites, and their atomic and molecular structures.
- Understand material properties and the effects of processing on the structure and behaviour of engineering materials, including heat treatment, cold working, and alloying.
- Use information sources to select materials for engineering uses, including material property databases, standards, and manufacturer's specifications.
- Understand about the modes of failure of engineering materials, including fracture, fatigue, corrosion, and wear, and the factors that contribute to these failures.
Specialist Machining Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of electro discharge machining using plain or shaped electrodes
- Understand the process of electro discharge machining using wire or tape electrodes
- Understand the process of electro-chemical machining, using plain or shaped electrodes
- Understand the use of lasers for thermal cutting and welding
- Understand electron beam cutting and welding
- Understand water jet and abrasive jet cutting and machining
- Understand super finishing processes
- Understand twist drilling systems used in machining engineering materials
- Understand tubular drilling systems used in machining engineering materials
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Quality Control Inspector
This work can lead to roles such as senior quality engineer, leading quality projects and mentoring junior staff, or quality manager, directing quality for a site or product line.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited 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
Advanced Manufacturing TechniquesAdvanced Manufacturing Techniques Computer Numerical Control - CNCAdvanced MillingAdvanced TurningComputer Aided Design TechniquesComputer Numerical Control (CNC) Programming/MachiningEngineering CommunicationsEngineering & Environmental Health and Safety
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.
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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 Advanced Manufacturing Techniques, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides learners with an understanding of advanced manufacturing technology installations, including their components and functions. Learners will explore manufacturing flexibility, special manufacturing processes, and fundamentals of business improvement techniques.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for EAL Level 3 Diploma in Machining (Development knowledge)
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Advanced Manufacturing Techniques
- Advanced Manufacturing Techniques Computer Numerical Control - CNC
- Advanced Milling
- Advanced Turning
- Computer Aided Design Techniques
- Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Programming/Machining
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
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