Simulated workplaceCAQA Polyform Plastics and Cable is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
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Simulated workplace
Department

Cable Works

Cable Works at Bayswater draws copper rod to wire, bunches and strands conductors, extrudes PVC and cross-linked polyethylene insulation, lays up cores and applies sheaths, then tests, marks and reels finished cable to the Australian standards and customer orders.

Cable Works Manager30 staff
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Responsibilities

What the team is accountable for

  • Draw, anneal, bunch and strand copper conductor
  • Insulate and sheath cable on the extrusion lines
  • Lay up multicore cables to the construction sheet
  • Test conductor resistance, spark and high voltage on every reel
  • Mark, reel and label cable with the required approval marking
Performance measures

How we know it is working

99.3%
Reels passing high voltage test first time
100%
Conductor resistance within standard
1.4%
Copper scrap rate
People

Who works here

AF

Alistair Fraser

Cable Works Manager

Alistair manages the Bayswater cable works and its test laboratory, has made cable for twenty-two years and is the site's approval marking signatory.