MEM234005Design hydrodynamic pumping systems

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What an assessment for MEM234005 must cover

43 assessable components: 3 elements (17 performance criteria), 9 performance evidence and 17 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Clarify the design brief and elaborate the specification

  • 1.1Establish required features and performance parameters of hydrodynamic pumping system
  • 1.2Confirm technical, commercial and environmental parameters of the brief or contract
  • 1.3Determine stakeholders to be consulted in design process
  • 1.4Assess WHS, regulatory, sustainability or environmental issues relevant to the design task
  • 1.5Confirm design brief, including budget and schedule, and provide preliminary advice on feasibility

2 Evaluate design analysis and prepare concept proposals

  • 2.1Appraise initial qualitative and quantitative analysis of the design task
  • 2.2Carry out required detailed modelling and calculations using appropriate software and validation techniques
  • 2.3Generate solutions to the design brief, including choice of equipment, layout, fluid source and delivery
  • 2.4Check feasibility and evaluate solutions against design criteria, ensuring conformity to standards and codes, technical, economic and WHS requirements
  • 2.5Determine social and sustainability implications of solutions
  • 2.6Present concept proposals to client

3 Design hydrodynamic pumping system

  • 3.1Evaluate concept proposals with client and select preferred solution
  • 3.2Ensure that design solution is optimised with respect to the system specifications
  • 3.3Finalise selected design, comprising equipment, layout, fluid source and delivery, and other features desired by client
  • 3.4Ensure preparation of all required documentation, drawings, specifications and instructions
  • 3.5Consult with client and stakeholders to obtain sign-off on design
  • 3.6Monitor installation and commissioning with stakeholders and make any necessary adjustments to design

Performance evidence

  • interpreting features of plant and equipment and parameters of the brief or contract
  • advising the client based on discipline knowledge and work health and safety (WHS) and regulatory standards
  • researching sustainability implications and current industrial design techniques
  • determining WHS, regulatory and risk management requirements
  • modelling and calculating using appropriate software and validation techniques
  • generating and evaluating solutions for feasibility against design criteria
  • designing hydrodynamic pumping solution on at least two occasions
  • communicating, negotiating and reviewing with stakeholders and client throughout the process to obtain agreement on proposal and sign-off on design
  • documenting design with drawings, specifications and instructions

Knowledge evidence

  • research and investigation methods
  • design brief parameters
  • techniques for: continuous improvement, problem-solving and decision-making, root cause analysis (RCA) or failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) or design review based on failure mode (DRBFM), and Pareto analysis
  • contemporary engineering design methods
  • relevant engineering design software
  • design, research, modelling and computational methodologies applied to hydrodynamic pumping systems
  • documentation, drawings, specifications and instructions
  • WHS and regulatory requirements, codes of practice, standards, risk minimisation and registration requirements
  • fundamentals of hydrodynamics including properties of substances and conservation of energy principles
  • types of pumps including centrifugal, rotary and reciprocating
  • pumping systems specifications including head equations, performance curves, valves, flow rates and efficiency
  • pump placements
  • cavitations
  • rotodynamic pump performance parameters and specifications
  • series and parallel pumps
  • practical pump installations and operation problems
  • pumping special fluids including viscous fluids, slurries, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.

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What does an assessment tool for MEM234005 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for MEM234005 needs to address all 43 unit components: 3 elements with 17 performance criteria, 9 performance evidence requirements, 17 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

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