Competency Based Modular Training (CBMT)

Level 1

• Safety in the workplace and when working with electrical installations
• Basic hand tools
• Basic electrical circuitry
• Introduction to low tension cables
• Select, use and care for electric measuring instruments
• Install electric wire ways
• Basic lighting circuits
• Installation, earthing and wiring of electric circuits
• Domestic wiring
• Industrial wiring installations
• Test and inspect single-phase domestic installations

Level 2

• Installing heating and heat control systems
• Installation of advanced control systems
• Installation and maintenance of transformers
• Advanced electronics
• Introduction to basics of motors and generators
• Inspect, test and assess motors

Level 3

• Install, test and assess advanced relays and timers
• Repair, and maintain single-phase motor control
• Test, repair and install direct-on-line motor starters
• Test, inspect and repair star delta motor starters
• Test, inspect and repair multi-speed motor starters
• Test, inspect and maintain various motor starters
• Fault-finding
• Understand programmable logic controllers

Level 1

• Understand and perform arc welding
• Understand and perform gas cutting and heating
• Understand and perform gas welding and brazing
• Sharpen chisels
• Sharpen drills
• Dress screwdrivers
• Sharpen punches
• Sharpen marking-off tools
• Manufacture components from drawings
• Identify tools and tooling aids
• Use tools and tooling aids
• Maintain tools and tooling aids
• Use hand tools applicable to the trade
• Inspect and replace locking devices
• Identify materials
• Select and use measuring equipment
• Mark off flanges and couplings
• Identify safety signs
• Use power tools
• Correct use of hand-operated hydraulic presses
• Inspect and replace grinding stone to pedestal grinder

Level 2

• Understand the basics of mechanical assemblies
• Inspect and repair brakes and clutch systems
• Inspect, fit, and remove bearings
• Basic lifting techniques
• Inspect and repair couplings
• Install and maintain drives
• Identify, install and service hydraulic systems
• Lubrication
• Identify, install and maintain pneumatic systems
• Identify, install and maintain pumps
• Install machinery

Level 3

• Carry out routine inspection on Centre lathe
• Turn an external and internal taper
• Turn an external and internal radius
• Turn a workpiece between centres
• Turn workpieces using fixed and trawling steads
• Compile a machining procedure
• Recall the parts of a centre lathe
• Set and calibrate dials
• Set up a workpiece in four-jaw chuck
• Identify different types of cutting tools
• Turn an external parallel workpiece
• Turn an internal parallel workpiece
• Turn internal and external threads

Level 4

• Carry out inspection on milling machine
• Mount a universal head
• Identify high-speed and tungsten cutting tools
• Machine a spur gear
• Cut an external key-way
• Machine a hexagon
• Machine a cube using a machine vice
• Drill evenly spaced holes on pcd’s
• Split a bush using a split-saw
• Compile a machining procedure
• Recall the parts of a universal milling machine
• Set and calibrate dials
• Set up a workpiece in a dividing head suinga 3-jaw chuck
• Set up a workpiece on a turntable
• Use a dividing head for indexing
• Cut an internal keyway

FABRICATION

Level 1

• Carry out inspection on milling machine
• Mount a universal head
• Identify high-speed and tungsten cutting tools
• Machine a spur gear
• Cut an external key-way
• Machine a hexagon
• Machine a cube using a machine vice
• Drill evenly spaced holes on pcd’s
• Split a bush using a split-saw
• Compile a machining procedure
• Recall the parts of a universal milling machine
• Set and calibrate dials
• Set up a workpiece in a dividing head suinga 3-jaw chuck
• Set up a workpiece on a turntable
• Use a dividing head for indexing
• Cut an internal keyway

Level 2

• Lay out and mark off pieces from drawings
• Recall terms and definitions in gas welding and brazing
• Interpret welding data sheets
• Identify all gas welding and brazing defects and causes
• Set up gas cylinders, torches and hoses for use in the workplace
• Prepare and assemble workpieces for gas weld
• Maintain gas welding equipment
• Perform fillet and butt weld with full penetration on materials
• Use lifting equipment
• Rectify distortion and welding defects
• Understand heat manipulation processes of metals
• Fabricate components from drawings

Level 3

• Make detailed drawings and compile material lists
• Weld with manual metal arc welding techniques
• Recall information on welding data sheet
• Prepare and assemble workpieces arc welding
• Fabricate structures using rolled sections
• Lay-out structural fabrication
• Make templates according to specifications and drawings
• Identify code requirements on drawings and sketches

Level 4

• Develop layouts for the fabrication: hoppers and chutes
• Fabricate of hoppers, chutes, cylinders and cones from drawings
• Assemble cylinders, dished heads of nozzles
• Use fasteners applicable to the trade
• Calculate and mark off splays on rafters and beams
• Assemble, erect, align and level steel structures

WELDING

Level 1

• Identify ac and dc equipment and welding machines
• Prepare material and set equipment
• Identify defects and methods to rectify
• Recall information and welding procedure
• Maintenance of machines and equipment
• Basic lifting techniques
• Select and use welding equipment and tools
• Hand cut pipes / plates
• Prepare plates for welding
• Explain defects and methods to rectify
• Weld sheet and plate in all positions
• Use and maintain measuring, cutting and marking tools and maintain hand tools for the trade
• Recall terms, definitions, use of materials
• Lay out, mark off workpieces and positions
• Safety procedures in welding and oxy-fuel cut

Level 2

• Identify and setup equipment needed
• Gas weld steel pipes in all positions
• Recall and identify current identification systems
• Weld plates in all positions
• Identify and rectify
• Identify metal defects visually
• Lay out and mark off positions on pipelines
• Operating a guillotine
• Operating a power saw

Level 3

• Prepare material and equipment for welding
• Identify defects and methods to rectify faults
• Welding procedures and information
• Weld joints (mild steel) plates
• Weld joints (mild steel) pipes
• Maintenance of tungsten arc welding equipment
• Identify and set up
• Select correct tungsten
• Prepare and machine material
• Identify defects and methods to rectify faults
• Welding procedure and use information from drawings
• Weld joints (aluminium)

Level 4

• Weld joints on aluminium plate
• Maintenance of equipment
• Weld mild steel pipes
• Weld mild steel plates, all positions

AUTOMOTIVE BODY REPAIR

Level 1

• Use basic hand tools
• The construction of the vehicle
• Sawing
• Chiselling
• Riveting
• Grind sheetmetal using power tools
• Gas welding
• Brazing metal components
• Metal cutting with oxyacetylene
• Mig welding
• Plasma-arc metal cutting
• Intro to training in the motor industry
• Safety and first aid knowledge in workshop

Level 2

• Vehicle examination
• Remove and replace bumpers
• Remove and replace vehicle headlamps
• Remove and replace vehicle doors
• Remove and replace the decklid/tailgate
• Remove and replace exterior and interior trim
• Remove and replace upholstery
• Remove and replace the dashboard
• Remove and replace air conditioner components
• Remove and replace a sliding roof
• Remove and replace electrics
• Remove and replace vehicle glass
• Remove and replace direct glazed windscreens

Level 3

• Remove and replace the engine
• Remove and replace transmission rear wheel
• Remove and replace transmission front wheel
• Remove and replace suspension (rear wheel)
• Remove and replace suspension (front wheel)
• Repair plastic components
• Repair glass fibre panels
• Lead filling
• Polyester body filling
• Repair minor dents
• Reshape a box section
• Align the upper body structure
• Re-align the body shell
• Re-align frame (chassis)
• Remove and replace fixed body components
• Join body components
• Replace a part panel
• Repair a deformed panel
• Restore the wheel alignment

Level 4

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AUTOMOTIVE SPRAY-PAINTING

Level 1

• Introduction to training in the motor industry
• Safety and first aid knowledge in workshop
• Maintain the spray booth
• Identify the components of an air compressor
• Identify and maintain the spray guns
• Perform feather edging and sanding
• Perform basic masking of a vehicle
• Perform vehicle paint stripping

Level 2

• Identify primers and primer filler
• Apply primers and primer filler
• Apply the indicator/guide coat
• Perform final masking for finishing coats
• Perform final solvent cleaning
• Perform colour mixing and matching

Level 3

• Mixing thinning and application of finishing coats
• Perform final cleaning and polishing
• Perform an assessment of paint defects

• Machine tongue and groove boarding
• Machine components for cupboard with hinged door
• Machine components for glass door
• Machine components for bar counter
• Machine components for straight flight of stairs
• Machine components for a casement window
• Machine components to counter-balance sliding sash windows
• Assemble/fit cupboard from machined components
• Assemble half-glass door and fit door
• Assemble bar counter and fit the counter
• Assemble straight flight staircases with newels
• Assemble casement window frame/fit window
• Assemble counter-balance sliding sash window