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 209-110 Industry Placement I

Availability

Gilbert Chandler campus

Credit Points

0

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Mr Alan Morgan

Semester

1, repeat 2 (view timetable)

Contact

90 hours of academic work within a minimum period of three months employment in industry

Subject Description

The objective of this placement is to:

  • provide an awareness of the routines and practices in a dairy food manufacturing unit;

  • allow opportunity for students to enhance their skills in the practices of dairy food manufacture;

  • provide experience of a commercial industrial environment;

  • observe and analyse the layout of services and interaction of activities within the factory; and

  • observe and analyse the relationship of elements of the organisation as they interact within the factory.

The content includes equipment operations: the working of dairy equipment and instruments, start-up and shut down procedures for a range of equipment, common problems associated with the operation of the equipment, measures to remedy the problems; manufacture of specific dairy products, the principles and practice of commercial manufacture of dairy products, the commercial process of manufacture, common defects in the product, measures to control product quality; factory services and layout: analysis of the layout of services and interaction of activities within the factory, suggested modifications to improve the interaction of activities within the factory; and organisational interaction: analysis of the relationship of various sections of organisation as they interact within the factory.

Assessment

Evaluation of factory report of 3000 words (100%).

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