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01What it is
Aimed at learners in the engineering sector, this extended diploma develops advanced knowledge in manufacturing engineering. The qualification includes mechanical principles, maintenance procedures, and health and safety practices. It prepares learners for further study or employment in advanced manufacturing.
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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02The units
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Additive Manufacture Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll develop knowledge of health and safety risks associated with additive manufacturing (AM) equipment, including safe handling, recovery, and recycling of hazardous materials. The unit also covers types of AM equipment, build file preparation, post-processing, and quality control procedures.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the risks to health and safety associated with the use of AM (Additive Manufacturing) equipment
- Understand how to safely handle, recover and recycle hazardous materials
- Understand the types and application of AM equipment used within manufacturing
- Understand build file preparation and planning for the manufacture of components by AM equipment
- Understand the requirements of post-processing
- Produce ‘coded part’ programs appropriate to AM equipment
- Prepare and input data into AM controllers and ancillary equipment
- Prove-out AM programs prior to build
Advanced Manufacturing Techniques Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit introduces advanced manufacturing technology installations, including components such as robots, CNC machines, and automated material handling systems. You'll explore manufacturing flexibility, special manufacturing processes, and business improvement techniques relevant to advanced manufacturing.
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
You'll gain understanding of Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technology, including basic concepts, machine tool design, tooling, part programming, and operational control. The unit covers CNC machining operations and the advantages of CNC over traditional methods.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic concepts of Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technology.
- Understand basic CNC machine tool design, including their key components and functionalities.
- Understand tooling and work holding methods used in CNC machining operations.
- Understand CNC part programming and operation, including the creation and execution of CNC programs.
- Understand CNC operational control and machine setting procedures for different machining tasks.
Analogue Electronics Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit covers the atomic structure of semiconductor materials and the differences between conductors, insulators, and semiconductors. You'll understand doping processes, regulated power supplies, oscillators, and amplifiers, including their functions and operating principles.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand atomic models for semiconductor material
- Understand the operation of regulated power supplies
- Understand the principle operation of oscillators and their applications
- Understand amplifiers
- Understand operational amplifiers
Analogue systems engineering Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit introduces learners to analogue systems engineering, covering basic components such as non-linear resistors and capacitors, their applications, and semiconductor device characteristics. You'll understand component functions within analogue electrical and electronic systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand basic components commonly used in analogue electrical/electronic systems.
- Explain applications of non-linear resistors: VDR and thermistor.
- Explain applications of different types of capacitors: coupling/decoupling and electrolytic.
- Describe different types and applications of semiconductor diodes: signal, power, zener and LED.
- Describe the operation of simple power supply circuits: half wave rectifiers, bridge rectifiers, full wave rectifiers.
- Explain the operation and uses of BJTs and FETs in analogue electronics.
- Understand electrical machines.
- Describe a simple generator.
- Describe DC motors and generators.
- Explain Single and multiphase AC machines.
- Explain Simple three - phase systems, star and delta connection.
- Understand the concepts of amplification systems.
- Describe general amplifier principles.
- Explain the principles of operation and uses of BJT and FET amplifiers.
- Explain classes of bias.
- Understand the effects and uses of negative feedback in analogue electrical/electronic systems.
- Explain negative feedback.
- Describe a basic operational amplifier (Op amp).
- Describe an Op amp as an inverting amp.
- Describe an Op amp as a summing amp.
- Explain an Op amp in an integrator circuit.
- Explain an Op amp in a differentiator circuit.
- Describe an Op amp as a non-inverting amp.
- Explain an Op amp voltage follower circuit.
- Build or simulate simple amplifier circuits.
- Investigate and explain the biasing of these circuits.
- Investigate and explain the use of negative feedback in these circuits.
- Understand the effects and uses of positive feedback in analogue electrical/electronic systems.
- Explain what is meant by “positive feedback”.
- Explain how positive feedback leads to oscillation.
- Explain uses of positive feedback.
- Describe the problems arising from positive feedback.
Application and Principles of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll understand the internal architecture of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), including the CPU, memory, and input/output modules. The unit covers industrial applications, input/output device selection, interfacing, and basic PLC programming techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the internal architecture of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), including the CPU, memory, and input/output modules.
- Understand the applications of PLCs in various industrial automation processes.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the number systems used in PLCs, such as binary, decimal, and hexadecimal.
- Understand the typical input devices used with PLCs, including sensors, switches, and encoders, and their characteristics.
- Understand the typical output devices used with PLCs, including actuators, relays, and motors, and their characteristics.
- Understand the selection criteria for input and output devices based on application requirements.
- Understand how input and output devices are interfaced to the PLC, including wiring and signal conditioning.
- Understand basic PLC programming techniques, including ladder logic, function block diagrams, and structured text.
- Produce a correctly developed program for a PLC to control a specified process, meeting the required functionality and performance criteria.
- Document the completed PLC program to a satisfactory standard, including comments, descriptions, and wiring diagrams.
- Monitor PLC operation using appropriate software tools and techniques.
- Force devices (inputs and outputs) to test PLC program logic and functionality.
- Fault find PLC controlled processes, identifying and resolving issues related to hardware, software, and wiring.
Applications of Mechanical Systems in Engineering Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit covers mechanical systems in engineering, focusing on lubricants, lubrication systems, engineering components, mechanical power transmission, and plant equipment. You'll understand the operation and applications of these systems within engineering contexts.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purposes and uses of lubricants and lubrication systems in engineering applications.
- Know about the uses and applications of a range of engineering components, including their functions and limitations.
- Understand the operation and uses of mechanical power transmission systems, including gears, belts, and chains.
- Understand the operation and uses of plant equipment and systems commonly found in engineering environments.
Communications for Engineering Technicians Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit develops learners' ability to interpret engineering sketches, circuit diagrams, and network diagrams to communicate technical information. You'll also practise verbal and written communication skills and use information and communication technology within engineering contexts.
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret and use engineering sketches, circuit diagrams and network diagrams to communicate technical information effectively.
- Demonstrate verbal communication skills in engineering settings, adapting communication style to suit the audience.
- Demonstrate written communication skills in engineering settings, producing clear and concise documentation.
- Obtain engineering information from a variety of sources, including technical manuals, databases and colleagues.
- Use engineering information to solve problems and make informed decisions.
- Use information and communication technology (ICT) to present information in engineering settings, utilising appropriate software and hardware.
Computer Aided Design (CAD) Techniques Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll develop knowledge of Computer Aided Design (CAD) techniques, including health and safety risks, data management, system configuration, and compliance with drawing standards. The unit enables effective use of CAD systems for design and documentation tasks.
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.
- Understand how to manage stored data files effectively.
- Understand how to configure a CAD system to meet task requirements.
- Understand the requirements of CAD drawings and designs to comply with national and international standards and conventions.
- Understand how to check lighting systems are working correctly.
- Understand how to use a CAD system for the production of complex two-dimensional (2D) engineering drawings and designs.
- Understand how to modify, copy, manipulate and erase drawn entities.
- Understand how to use a CAD system for the production of basic three-dimensional (3D) models and realisations.
- Understand how to output CAD data to peripheral devices.
Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Programming/Machining Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll understand health and safety risks associated with CNC equipment, types and applications of CNC machinery, and the importance of data preparation and calculations. The unit covers safe operation procedures and legislative requirements for CNC machining.
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 the manufacturing industry.
- Understand the importance of the data preparation and 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.
Data Communications and Networking Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll gain foundational knowledge of data communications and networking, including historical developments, networking concepts, advantages and disadvantages, data storage and sharing, and relevant legal and security considerations.
What you'll be able to do
- Outline a brief history from 1990 to date covering the development time line of computer networks
- Define networking as connecting two or more computers using a communication link
- Identify advantages and disadvantages of computer network
- Describe how data is stored and shared across networks
- Describe the implications of relevant laws that cover data and its misuse
- Draw a basic peer to peer network
- Draw a diagram, which shows how analogue data is converted to digital data and then converted back
- Install a NIC and correctly configure non plug and play devices
- Select the correct cables and identify them by visual or test equipment
- Connect a peer-to-peer network and a simple client server using appropriate hardware
- Assemble and configure two computers as a peer-to-peer network with the necessary hardware and software
- Use the Internet to gather information from a wide geographic area understanding the naming conventions for web sites and their extensions
- Transfer files or device drivers from remote WANs
- Define a physical representation of a LAN
- Define a physical representation of a WAN
- Define a physical representation of an Enterprise network/MAN
- Select a suitable operating system after carrying out a systems audit
- Install and upgrade an operating system
- Configure users and workgroup with appropriate rights
- Install a networked resource (i.e. printer, scanner, backup device or any other appropriate device) and configure users desktop to a standard interface
- Install a suitable operating system that will support a client/server configuration
- Configure users with appropriate rights
- Describe how the physical topology of networks are constructed
- Describe how individual workstations(nodes) are connected
- Describe how to select suitable hardware devices and cabling to construct networks
- Describe how to define the term Bus Topology
- Connect a simple network up in a BUS configuration
- Connect a simple network up in a STAR configuration
- Connect a simple network up in a RING configuration
- Connect a simple network up in a TREE topology (combination of BUS & STAR)
- Describe the main features of 802.2 (IIc)
- Describe the main features of 802.3 (Ethernet)
- Describe the main features of 802.5 (Token ring)
- Describe the main features of 802.11b (Wireless)
- Describe the main features of the OSI model and identify the OSI layers
- Describe the specific functions of each layer
- Describe how data flows through the layers of the model
- Describe the following protocols TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, UDP, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP & PPP
- Describe the current legislation that applies to portable devices (PAT)
- Decide on the correct fuse to be used in a plug
- Identify the current legislation that relates to ensuring that the ergonomics of a workstation are correct (DSE)
- Describe the current legislation that deals with COSHH relating to the disposal of consumables
- Carry out a visual inspection of a mains lead
Digital Electronics Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit covers digital electronics fundamentals, including digital quantities, standard logic gates, Boolean algebra, and logic technologies. You'll understand combinational and sequential logic circuits and apply a systems approach to digital component operation.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain digital quantities, standard logic gates and logic technologies
- Explain combinational logic circuits
- Explain latches, flip flops, tri state devices and Schmitt triggers
- Demonstrate a systems approach to the application of logic circuits and counters
Digital systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit introduces learners to the fundamental principles of digital systems, focusing on transistors as switches, binary representation of logic states, and characteristics of digital voltage waveforms. You'll develop an understanding of how digital components operate and represent information.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the concept of transistors as switches, giving two logic states (on-off, high-low, 1-0)
- Describe the use of Binary to represent these states
- Describe the characteristics of a digital voltage waveform
- Describe the standard logic gates, their symbols, inputs and outputs (AND, OR, NAND, NOR, NOT, EX-OR and EX-NOR)
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of digital electronic systems compared with analogue electronic systems
- Describe the electrical characteristics of TTL and CMOS logic ICs including pin-outs, supply voltages, and precautions against static
- Describe the uses and operation of bistables, monostables and astables
- Describe the uses and operation of digital counters and shift registers
- Describe the uses and operation of Multiplexers
- Describe the uses and operation of DACs and ADCs
- Construct a simple digital circuit
- Use a range of test equipment such as Logic probe, Logic Pulser, Current probe, Oscilloscope, Signal Generator, Digital Multimeter
- Explain that a microcontroller is a specialised, single-chip computer variant
- State reasons for the widespread adoption of microcontrollers in the technological world
- Describe typical applications of microcontrollers, chosen for relevance to the students
- Explain that all computers are controlled by programs; types of program/language level
- Describe the internal structure and pin/port configuration of a selected microcontroller
- Explain how to write simple programs using the chosen microcontroller’s Instruction set
- Describe how to use FlowCode (or similar) to program a microcontroller to carry out more complex tasks
- Use a microcontroller to carry out a given task
- Explain the signalling process used by the chosen system(s) (at basic/pictorial level only, mathematical analysis is not required)
- Describe application(s) of the chosen system
- Explain the basic concept of a “network” in electronics/telecommunications/IT
- Describe types of digital network; selection to be made by the Centre from relevant technology
- Describe applications of the chosen network
- Carry out an investigation of different types of line coding used for the transmission of digital signals
Electrical and Electronic Principles in Engineering Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll develop understanding of electrical and electronic principles including internal resistance effects, temperature influence on resistance, dielectric materials, magnetic materials, and phasor representation of alternating currents and voltages.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the effects of the internal resistance of a source on terminal voltage
- Understand the effects of temperature on resistance in electrical circuits
- Understand the effect of dielectric materials on capacitance
- Understand the effect of dielectric materials on voltage rating of capacitors
- Understand the behaviour of magnetic materials
- Understand the effect of magnetic materials on inductance
- Investigate phasor representation of alternating quantities
- Apply phasor representation to series and parallel circuits
- Understand single and three phase a.c. circuits
- Investigate and plot the transient response of C-R circuits to non-sinusoidal waveforms
- Investigate and plot the transient response of L-R circuits to non-sinusoidal waveforms
Electro, Pneumatic and Hydraulic Systems and Devices Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll gain knowledge of health and safety legislation, hazards, and precautions related to electro, pneumatic, and hydraulic fluid power systems. The unit covers the construction, operation, design, maintenance, and testing of fluid power devices and circuits.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the legislation, regulations and safety precautions that apply when working with fluid power systems
- Describe the construction and operation of fluid power devices and how they are represented as symbols in circuit diagrams
- Apply fluid power principles in the design of circuits
- Carry out maintenance, inspection, testing and fault-finding on fluid power systems
Engineering Drawing for Technicians Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll learn to create and interpret engineering drawings, including freehand sketches, isometric and oblique projections, and sectional views. The unit also covers the assessment of the suitability of different sketching techniques and the benefits of orthographic projection for detailed engineering drawings.
What you'll be able to do
- Create sketches of engineering components using a range of techniques
- Describe the benefits and limitations of using a range of techniques to represent engineering components
- Assess the suitability of the different techniques for the sketches
- Interpret the main features of a given engineering drawing which complies with drawing standards
- Explain the importance of working to recognised standards when producing engineering drawings
- Produce detailed drawings of three given single-piece components that comply with drawing standards
- Produce an assembly drawing of a product containing three parts that complies with drawing standards
- Explain how the drawings comply with drawing standards
- Produce a circuit diagram that complies with drawing standards, with at least five different components which use standard symbols
- Explain how a given engineering drawing would be used and the reasons it is suitable for its intended audience
- Prepare a template drawing using a CAD system and save to file
- Produce, store and present CAD drawings of a given single-piece component and an assembly drawing of a product containing three parts
- Explain the hardware components of a typical industry standard CAD system
- Evaluate the functionality of a CAD software package
Engineering Maintenance Procedures and Techniques Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll understand materials, tools, equipment, numeracy, and science principles relevant to maintenance engineering. The unit also covers formal information systems and maintenance techniques to support effective engineering maintenance practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the materials used in maintenance engineering
- Understand the selection and use of tools and equipment used in maintenance engineering
- Understand the fundamental numeracy used in maintenance engineering
- Understand the fundamental science used in maintenance engineering
- Understand the sources and use of formal information systems used in maintenance engineering
- Understand the organisation and techniques used in maintenance engineering
Engineering Organisational Efficiency and Improvement Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides knowledge of production activities within engineering organisations, quality control and assurance methods, and organisational improvement techniques. You'll also understand personnel rights and responsibilities and factors affecting organisational competitiveness.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different types of production activities within an engineering organisation, including their purpose and interdependencies.
- Understand the application of quality control methods to monitor and maintain product or service standards.
- Understand the application of quality assurance processes to prevent defects and ensure consistent quality.
- Understand various organisational improvement techniques, such as lean manufacturing and Six Sigma, and their application in enhancing efficiency.
- Understand how organisational improvement techniques contribute to increased competitiveness in the market.
- Understand the rights and responsibilities of personnel within an organisation, including employment law and ethical considerations.
Engineering Project Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll learn to manage an engineering project from initial specification through planning, implementation, and presentation. The unit covers record-keeping, project monitoring, risk management, and adherence to agreed procedures to deliver project outcomes effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Keep records, specify a project, agree procedures and choose a solution
- Plan and monitor a project
- Implement the project plan within agreed procedures
- Present the project outcome
Features and Applications of Electrical Machines Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit covers the identification of electrical hazards and the relevant legislation, regulations, and standards for electrical safety. You'll understand the features and applications of alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) electrical machines, as well as the operation of electrical machine control circuits and systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Know the electrical hazards and the legislation, regulations and standards related to working with electrical apparatus
- Understand features and applications of alternating current (AC) machines
- Understand features and applications of direct current (DC) machines
- Know how electrical machine control circuits and systems operate
Further Electrical and Electronic Principles Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides learners with skills to analyse electrical networks using mesh and nodal analysis, Thevenin's and Norton's theorems. You'll understand advanced electrostatic, electromagnetic, magnetic circuit principles, and alternating current theory.
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse electrical networks using appropriate methods
- Understand further electrostatic principles relating to engineering applications
- Understand further electromagnetic principles relating to engineering applications
- Understand further magnetic circuit principles relating to engineering applications
- Understand advanced alternating current theory
Further Mathematics for Engineering Technicians Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll develop advanced mathematical skills relevant to engineering, including algebraic techniques, trigonometry, complex numbers, and calculus. The unit teaches you to solve engineering-related problems using these mathematical methods.
What you'll be able to do
- Solve engineering related mathematical problems
- Solve engineering related problems involving trigonometry
- Use complex numbers to solve engineering problems
- Apply calculus to solve basic engineering related problems
Further Mechanical Principles of Engineering Systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll learn to determine forces in pin-jointed framed structures and beams, calculate stress in structural members, and analyse rotating systems and lifting equipment. The unit applies statics, equilibrium, and mechanics principles.
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the forces acting in pin-jointed framed structures and simply supported beams, applying principles of statics and equilibrium to calculate reaction forces and internal forces.
- Determine the stress in structural members and joints, calculating tensile, compressive, and shear stresses to assess the structural integrity of components.
- Determine the characteristics of rotating systems, including angular velocity, angular acceleration, torque, and moment of inertia, and apply these parameters to analyse the behaviour of rotating machinery.
- Determine the operating characteristics of simple lifting machines, such as levers, pulleys, and inclined planes, calculating mechanical advantage, velocity ratio, and efficiency to evaluate their performance.
Health and Safety in the Engineering Workplace Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll gain knowledge of health and safety legislation, hazards, and risks within the engineering workplace. The unit covers reporting and recording procedures for accidents and incidents to maintain a safe working environment.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and interpret relevant health and safety legislation, regulations, and industry standards applicable to the engineering workplace.
- Identify and assess potential hazards and risks present in a typical engineering workplace, and evaluate appropriate control measures to minimise or eliminate these risks.
- Understand and apply the correct methods and procedures for reporting and recording accidents, incidents, and near misses in the engineering workplace, ensuring compliance with organisational policies and legal requirements.
Industrial Robot Technology Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll gain understanding of industrial robot technology, including associated hazards, health and safety requirements, and maintenance procedures. The unit covers safe operation, selection of safety barriers, and the functioning of robot work cells.
What you'll be able to do
- Know the hazards and health, safety and maintenance requirements associated with industrial robots and robot work cells.
- Describe the health and safety requirements for the safe operation of a given industrial robot or robot work cell.
- Describe maintenance procedures on a given industrial robot or robot work cell.
- Justify the choice of a safety barrier for a given industrial robot or robot work cell operation.
- Understand the operating, design and control principles of modern industrial robots and typical robot work cells.
- Explain the operating principles of a given industrial robot or robot work cell.
- Explain the design principles of a given industrial robot or robot work cell.
- Describe the control systems, including input, output and feedback signals, used to control the operation of an industrial robot or robot work cell to perform a specific task.
- Explain how the design principles of a given industrial robot or robot work cell are reflected in its control and operation.
- Evaluate an industrial robot or robot work cell installation in terms of its design, operation and control.
- Understand the operating principles of industrial robot sensors and end effectors.
- Explain the operating principles of three different types of sensors and their relevant application in an industrial robot or robot work cell.
- Explain the relevant operating principles of two different industrial robot or robot work cell end effectors being used to perform a specific task.
- Justify the use of a specific sensor/end effector for a given industrial robot or robot work cell application.
- Produce a working program for an industrial robot or robot work cell.
- Produce an operating program for an industrial robot or robot work cell to enable it to effectively carry out a specific function.
- Test that an industrial robot or robot work cell conforms to a specification and performs the programmed tasks correctly and safely.
- Compare two different methods used to program an industrial robot or robot work cell for a specific operation, and justify the choice of one over the other.
Industry 4.0 Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll gain knowledge of Industry 4.0 principles, including cyber-physical systems, key drivers, and differences from Industry 3.0. The unit also covers the role of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling technologies, and benefits of smart factories in manufacturing.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles underpinning Industry 4.0.
- Understand the technologies that enable Industry 4.0 and analyse their benefits in a manufacturing context.
- Understand the key characteristics of an Industry 4.0 Smart Factory.
- Understand the various factors that affect the transition from Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0.
Installation of Electrical Equipment Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit covers safe working systems and procedures for the installation of electrical equipment. You'll understand the selection of wiring systems, enclosures, and equipment, as well as methods for installation, fixing, connection, inspection, testing, and commissioning.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand safe systems of working within electrical installation environments
- Understand the procedures used to select wiring systems, wiring enclosures and equipment for electrical installations
- Understand the methods of installing, fixing and connecting wiring systems, wiring enclosures and equipment
- Understand electrical inspection, testing and commissioning procedures on installed equipment, distribution systems and machines
- Carry out installation and commissioning of electrical equipment
Maintenance of Fluid Power Systems and Components Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides a comprehensive understanding of hydraulic and pneumatic fluid power systems. You'll study component operation, fluid flow principles, pressure control, and sequencing circuits to maintain and troubleshoot these systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic principles of hydraulic systems
- Understand the basic principles of high pressure air production and pneumatic systems
- Understand the operation of hydraulic and pneumatic components and their symbols
- Understand the principles of fluid flow and the operation of pressure components
- Understand the operation of fluid logic components and the principles of design
- Understand the operation of hydraulic sequencing, and pneumatic timing and sequencing circuits
- Understand the operation of electro-hydraulic/pneumatic components and the principles of electro-hydraulic/pneumatic circuit design
- Understand the operation of PLC controlled hydraulic and pneumatic systems
- Understand the operation of proportional hydraulic valves and systems
- Design, safely construct and fault find on hydraulic and pneumatic circuits
Maintenance of Mechanical Systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit covers the maintenance function for mechanical systems, including lubricants, lubrication systems, bearing types and failures, power transmission principles, sealing methods, and maintenance strategies. You'll understand how maintenance affects system reliability and performance.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and importance of the maintenance function in ensuring the reliability and availability of mechanical systems.
- Understand different types of lubricants and their properties, including viscosity, additives, and compatibility.
- Understand the principles of operation of lubrication systems, including oil circulation, filtration, and cooling.
- Understand different types of bearings, including ball bearings, roller bearings, and plain bearings, and their applications.
- Understand the materials used in bearing construction and their properties.
- Understand the common causes of bearing failure, including contamination, overload, and improper lubrication.
- Understand different types of power transmissions, including gears, belts, and chains, and their principles of operation.
- Understand the common failure patterns associated with different types of power transmissions.
- Understand different types of seals, including O-rings, lip seals, and mechanical seals, and their applications.
- Understand the principles of sealing, including pressure, temperature, and fluid compatibility.
- Understand and apply appropriate dismantling techniques for mechanical systems, ensuring safety and preventing damage.
- Understand and apply appropriate re-assembly techniques for mechanical systems, ensuring proper alignment and functionality.
Mathematics for Engineering Technicians Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
It teaches you to solve engineering problems using mathematical principles, formulas, and trigonometric methods. You'll apply calculus and statistical data analysis to calculate areas, volumes, and interpret engineering-related information.
What you'll be able to do
- Solve engineering related problems mathematically
- Apply formulas and trigonometric methods to solve 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
Mechanical Measurement and Inspection Techniques Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides knowledge of mechanical measurement principles, including limits, fits, and tolerancing. You'll be able to calculate hole and shaft tolerances, use linear measurement equipment, and apply inspection techniques to evaluate component conformity.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the different types of limits and fits
- Use tolerancing principles to calculate hole and shaft tolerances for a range of required component fits
- Explain the principles of measurement
- Use linear measurement equipment to carry out practical measurements for given products
- Use further measurement techniques on given products to establish surface texture, alignment and angular measurements
- Explain the use of linear measuring equipment when used on given products
- Evaluate the use and accuracy of linear measuring equipment when used on given products
- Use comparators to measure dimensions and angles for a simple given product
- Design a gauging system for a simple given application
- Compare different uses of comparators when used to measure dimensional accuracy
- Explain the technique of acceptance sampling and state when 100% inspection is applicable
- Produce control charts for a given process
- Explain process capability in relationship to statistical process control (SPC) for a given relevant process
Mechanical Principles of Engineering Systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
It teaches you to determine the effects of loading on static engineering systems and calculate work, power, and energy transfer in dynamic systems. You'll also assess fluid system parametres and energy transfer in thermodynamic systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the effects of various types of loading (e.g., tensile, compressive, shear) on static engineering systems, calculating stresses, strains, and deflections.
- Determine work, power, and energy transfer in dynamic engineering systems, applying relevant principles and equations to analyse motion, forces, and energy transformations.
- Determine key parameters of fluid systems, such as pressure, flow rate, viscosity, and density, and apply these parameters to analyse the behaviour of fluid systems.
- Determine the effects of energy transfer in thermodynamic systems, analysing heat transfer, work done, and changes in internal energy to understand the performance of thermodynamic systems.
Microelectronics Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides an understanding of microprocessor system components and their functions. You'll compare 8-bit and 16-bit processors, examine microprocessor architecture, and understand the interaction between system components.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the different components of a generic microprocessor system
- Describe the difference between an 8-bit and 16-bit processor
- Demonstrate an understanding of the architecture of 8051 or 6502, 8086, 68000 etc.
- Identify the important chips of a microprocessor system on a motherboard
- Draw a block diagram of a typical microprocessor system showing a central processing unit, memory devices and an input/output unit
- Show how the main components are linked by the Address, Data and Control buses
- Demonstrate an understanding of Binary numbers and be able to perform binary arithmetic
- Perform logical operations on binary digits
- Perform operations using Hexadecimal counting
- Convert between Hex and binary digits
- Understand Signed numbers - positive and negative numbers in binary
- Produce truth tables for the logic functions NOT, AND, OR and EOR
- Use scientific calculators in converting numbers from one system to another
- Describe the following components of a generic central processing unit: Arithmetic and logic unit, Program counter, Instruction register, Status register, Stack and stack pointer, Control and timing units
- Explain the purpose of each of the above components in the CPU
- Explain the use of other available internal registers in at least one of the following systems: 8051/8086 CPU, 6502 CPU, Z80 CPU, 68000 CPU
- Describe the function of the system clock in enabling communication between the CPU and the rest of the system
- Explain the use of tri-state logic with the bus system for data interchange in the system
- Describe the different types of ROM and RAM memory devices and their communication pins or signals
- Describe the important sections of an input/output interface chip and signals that enable peripherals connected to the chip via ports to access the system buses
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the different buffers/chipsets found in complex systems
- Describe the movement of data to and from memory to the registers of the CPU
- Recognise the registers available in a particular Central Processing Unit
- Demonstrate an understanding of the contents of the status flags as a consequence of the data content of registers
- Demonstrate an understanding of control signals (high or low) required to enable specific chips and those required to enable data movement onto or from the data bus
- Describe how an 8-bit microprocessor system addresses 64K of memory
- Describe how a 16-bit microprocessor system addresses over 1 Megabyte of memory
- Draw a typical memory map for a specified small system and understand the memory terms page, zero page
- Describe the fetch and execute cycles of an instruction
- Draw timing diagrams and understand the use of Wait states in instruction execution
- Demonstrate an understanding of the different memory addressing modes for a specified system
- Design and build a simple clock signal generating unit using either a 555 timer, NAND gates or a crystal oscillator
- Explain the differences between high and low level language programming
- Demonstrate an understanding of the conceptual steps in programming
- Demonstrate an understanding of the need to familiarise with an instruction set and its use
Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Engineering Systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides learners with knowledge of health and safety requirements, legislation, and safe working practices relevant to monitoring and fault diagnosis of engineering systems. You'll understand system monitoring methods, reliability, and condition monitoring techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Know the health and safety requirements relevant to monitoring and fault diagnosis of engineering systems.
- Outline the aspects of health and safety legislation that apply to monitoring and fault diagnosis of an engineering system.
- Describe workplace hazards and safe working practices relevant to specific monitoring and fault diagnosis situations.
- Know about system monitoring and reliability.
- Describe a condition monitoring method and technique related to a given engineering system.
- Describe the factors affecting reliability for a given engineering system.
- Use given data to calculate failure rates for a range of components and equipment.
- Explain four factors which influence either failure or reliability in a given engineering system.
- Explain the environmental conditions which affect the reliability of the components in given items of congruent equipment.
- Use monitoring and test equipment.
- Describe the monitoring and test equipment used for measuring given system condition parameters.
- Use procedures to carry out system monitoring on two separate engineering systems.
- Evaluate the quality of measurements made and the limitations of given items of condition monitoring equipment.
- Carry out fault diagnosis on engineering systems.
- Describe the terms and two different techniques related to fault diagnosis.
- Use diagnostic techniques, test and measuring equipment and aids to locate faults on two separate engineering systems where two malfunction symptoms are evident on each system.
Principles and Applications of Engineering Measurement Systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll explore the purpose and key elements of engineering measurement systems, including pressure and temperature measurement. The unit covers system performance, accuracy, and the design of measurement systems to meet specified requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the main purpose and elements of measurement
- Explain the main elements within three given common measurement systems
- Explain the performance of a given common measurement system
- Design a measurement system, ensuring that it meets the required specification
- Evaluate the performance of a given measurement system against a required specification
- Explain the operational principles of three different types of transducer
- Explain the conversion process that takes place within three given signal converters
- Describe the signal processors needed to meet a given specification
- Use appropriate test equipment to test the function and operation of a common measurement system against specification
- Use virtual instrumentation software to display, record and generate a report on a given measurement system
- Use an appropriate recording or display device to meet a given specification
- Test a given common measurement system to meet the requirements of the system specification, calibrating as required to ensure its performance limitations are not exceeded
- Explain the testing methods used and the calibration process
- Evaluate the performance limitations of the calibrated system
Properties and Applications of Engineering Materials Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides learners with knowledge of the structure, classification, and properties of engineering materials. You'll analyse how processing affects material behaviour, use information sources to select materials, and understand modes of failure in engineering contexts.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the structure and classification of engineering materials
- Explain material properties and the effects of processing on the structure and behaviour of engineering materials
- Use information sources to select materials for engineering uses
- Explain the modes of failure of engineering materials
Radio and Radar Principles Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll gain an understanding of the theory and calculations involved in amplitude and frequency modulation. The unit covers the functions of key transmitter and receiver components, electrical requirements of transmission lines, and the principles of primary radar systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the theory of amplitude and frequency modulation
- Understand the basic principles of transmitters and receivers
- Understand the requirements of primary radar systems
- Understand the principles of pulsed and CW radar
Simulation and Digital Twinning Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides an understanding of digital twinning and its application in advanced manufacturing. You'll explore the benefits, limitations, software implications, data collection methods, and security considerations associated with digital twinning technology.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how digital twinning is used, as well as the benefits and limitations of using it during advanced manufacturing
- Understand the implications of using software and data collection for digital twinning
- Understand how to produce a simulated digital twin model for a manufacturing process or system
Three-Phase Motors and Drives Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll understand the construction and operation of squirrel-cage and wound rotor three-phase induction motors, as well as synchronous and synchronous-induction motors. The unit also covers motor starters, control gear, and industrial applications of three-phase motors and drives.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the operating principles of squirrel-cage three-phase induction motors.
- Describe the operating principles of wound rotor three-phase induction motors.
- Describe the operating principles of three-phase synchronous motors.
- Describe the operating principles of three-phase synchronous-induction motors.
- Explain the function and operation of motor starters and control gear used with three-phase motors.
- Describe a range of industrial applications for three-phase motors, considering installation, commissioning and maintenance requirements.
Toolmaking/Presswork/Extrusion Design Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll understand the design processes related to toolmaking, extrusion dies, and press tools, including the use of CAD/CAM software. The unit also covers factors influencing material selection, manufacturing processes, economic considerations, and design aspects affecting jig and fixture functionality.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the design process relating to tool making
- Understand the design process relating to extrusion dies
- Understand the design process relating to press tools
- Understand the factors influencing the choice of material used within a design
- Understand how manufacturing processes influence design
- Understand how economic factors influence design
- Understand factors affecting the design of jigs for the manufacture of simple components
- Understand factors affecting the design of fixtures for the manufacture of simple components
- Understand factors affecting the design of extrusion dies for the manufacture of simple components
- Understand factors affecting the design of press tools for the manufacture of simple components
- Understand the safety aspects of designs relating to jigs
- Understand the safety aspects of designs relating to fixtures
- Understand the safety aspects of designs relating to extrusion dies
- Understand the safety aspects of designs relating to press tools
- Make a simple jig
- Make a simple fixture
- Make a simple extrusion die
- Make a simple press tool
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.
- Standard
Install Advanced Manufacturing Technology
- Standard
Maintain Advanced Manufacturing Technology
- Standard
Operate Advanced Manufacturing Technology
04Where it leads
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 38 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Associate Industry 4.0 Technician
This work can lead to designing Industry 4.0 solutions across multiple plants, or managing a team of specialists running smart factory projects.
See the whole journey05The credits
The 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
Additive ManufactureAdvanced Manufacturing TechniquesAdvanced Manufacturing Techniques-Computer Numerical Control (CNC)Analogue ElectronicsAnalogue systems engineeringApplication and Principles of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)Applications of Mechanical Systems in EngineeringCommunications for Engineering Technicians
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 Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration The Navigator Your plan for “Engineering Project” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Engineering Project” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Engineering Maintenance Procedures and Techniques” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Analogue systems engineering” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
EAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Knowledge)
- Install Advanced Manufacturing Technology
- Maintain Advanced Manufacturing Technology
- Operate Advanced Manufacturing Technology
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 Additive Manufacture, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Which job do you mean?
Learners will develop knowledge of health and safety risks associated with additive manufacturing (AM) equipment, including safe handling, recovery, and recycling of hazardous materials. The unit also covers types of AM equipment, build file preparation, post-processing, and quality control procedures.
How the thinking builds
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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.
Built for EAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Knowledge)
40 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Additive Manufacture
- Advanced Manufacturing Techniques
- Advanced Manufacturing Techniques-Computer Numerical Control (CNC)
- Analogue Electronics
- Analogue systems engineering
- Application and Principles of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
and 34 more in the full unit list below.
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