European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).
Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).
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Information about the Latvian qualifications referenced to Latvian qualifications framework (LQF)
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1. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of notion:
1.1. information searching and selection tools.
1.2. quality management principles.
2. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of understanding:
2.1. textile types and use;
2.2. textile manufacturing and production equipment (activities and opportunities, service procedures and possible defects);
2.3. resource planning;
2.4. types of waste, recycling and disposal;
2.5. company work organization;
2.6. textile defects and causes;
2.7. rationing of material consumption;
2.8. textile quality requirements;
2.9. chemicals and colouring used in textile finishing services;
2.10. environmentally friendly technologies and materials;
2.11. informative materials, databases.
3. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of use:
3.1. textile manufacturing and production processes, technological requirements;
3.2. textile manufacturing and production supplies, properties and defects;
3.3. fabric and knitting braid and technical placement schemes;
3.4. types and use of textile manufacturing and production tools for assistance;
3.5. types and purpose of additional materials in textile manufacturing and production;
3.6. types and requirements of textile labeling;
3.7. criteria and methods of textile quality tests;
3.8. physical mechanical indications, detection methods, indicator standards;
3.9. workplace ergonomics;
3.10. labour protection (the requirements of Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, labour safety products and use, first aid);
3.11. communication psychology;
3.12. principles of professional and general ethics;
3.13. information technologies;
3.14. official language;
3.15. one foreign language at the professional communication level;
3.16. professional terminology in the official language and one foreign language;
3.17. environmental protection;
3.18. legal labour relation standards.
1. To recognize and use fabric and knitting braid, also placement technical schemes.
2. To use textile production and manufacturing technological maps according to a specific job task.
3. To control raw material compliance with the raw product preparation and product passport of textile production and manufacturing.
4. Set the equipment by using textile manufacturing and production equipment technical documentation.
5. To produce textiles by using your knowledge of textile manufacturing and production technological processes (brushing, fibre loosening and mixing, hanging, tape stretching and brushing, roving, yarn boiling and whitening, spinning, enlacing, spooling, twisting, texturing, warping, sizing, thread drawing, wrapping, weaving, knitting, non-woven cloth production, decoration, quality determination, labelling, packaging).
6. To evaluate the technical and technological compliance of textile production and manufacturing equipment with the job requirements.
7. To identify and prevent equipment technical non-compliance within professional competence.
8. To choose and use necessary additional materials and tools.
9. To use material quality control methods.
10. To recognize raw materials and identify their compliance with supporting documents.
11. To identify raw material compliance with quality requirements.
12. To organize the flow of incoming raw materials according to the work task.
13. To install the textile manufacturing and production equipment, to use the necessary instruments for assistance.
14. To use the chosen textile manufacturing and production technology and comply with its technological requirements.
15. To identify textile manufacturing and production process compliance with technological requirements.
16. To make decisions independently, find solutions to prevent technological process non-compliance within professional competences.
17. To document textile production and manufacturing process.
18. To analyze and make suggestions to increase effectivity of textile production and manufacturing process.
19. To organize further progress of wasted materials during the production process (selection, sorting, recycling, disposal).
20. To recognize a textile product and mark it accordingly.
21. To understand textile physical mechanical indicators (yarn fibre material structure, linear density and number, twist, twist direction, humidity, winding or packing density; cloth fibre material structure, surface density or 1 m2 weight, fabric or knit density, weave; yarn and cloth tensile strength, ability to prolong, flexibility) and their impact on characteristics of the product.
22. To use appropriate measuring instruments and tools, summarize and analyze the collected data during the test.
23. To identify product defects and types.
24. To mark product defects accordingly.
25. To find solutions to prevent product defect causes.
26. To identify textile compliance with quality requirements.
27. To evaluate workplace compliance with the ongoing task and arrange it accordingly.
28. To comply with protection regulatory requirements during work duties.
29. To evaluate the compliance of instruments and tools with the safety of the job.
30. To choose and use necessary personal and collective labour protection products according to specific work task.
31. To comply with environmental protection regulatory requirements, perform the work duties by using environmentally friendly technologies and materials.
32. To work in a team, communicate and cooperate with the staff involved in the working process.
33. To plan your work, identify priorities of ongoing tasks and control the work of staff involved in the working process.
34. To plan and organize daily work.
35. To glean information and maintain an interest in innovations in the field of textile production and manufacturing.
36. To use information technology programs and develop your skills.
37. To make suggestions to improve the work process.
38. To comply with legal labour relation standards.
39. To comply with the principles of professional and general ethics.
40. To speak in the official language.
41. To speak in at least one foreign language at a professional communication level.
42. To use professional terminology in the official language and one foreign language.
43. To provide the first aid.
44. To work independently and take responsibility for the results of your work.
1. The ability to recognize fabric and knitting braid types, installation technical drawings, technological maps and to use them during the textile manufacturing process.
2. The ability to prepare the workplace for a specific job, responsible for evaluating the technical and technological compliance of equipment, preventing technical equipment non-compliance within professional competences.
3. The ability to choose necessary additional materials and tools in accordance with the job task.
4. The ability to recognize and control if incoming raw materials comply with quality requirements by using raw materials and product passports and appropriate quality control methods.
5. The ability to determine raw material non-compliance with quality requirements and to document it precisely according to company procedures.
6. The ability to organize the flow of raw materials in accordance with the job task.
7. The ability to set up textile manufacturing equipment according to ongoing tasks by using technical equipment documentation and necessary tools for assistance.
8. The ability to produce textiles, know the technological processes of textile manufacturing and production.
9. The ability to provide daily production process, to use suitable textile manufacturing technologies according to technological requirements.
10. The ability to evaluate textile production process compliance with technological requirements.
11. The ability to document the production process, to perform its analysis, and propose production process improvement if necessary.
12. The ability to organize economically collection and further progress of wasted materials during the production process.
13. The ability to recognize and label textiles.
14. The ability to control textile physical mechanical indicators, to document and analyze the results obtained by using appropriate testing methods.
15. The ability to determine the quality of textiles, identify defects and causes, find solutions to eliminate the causes of defects.
16. The ability to plan your work independently and control the work of staff involved, using the resources in an economical way.
17. The ability to perform job duties and comply with the requirements of Occupational Health and Safety Regulations.
18. The ability to choose and use appropriate personal and collective labour protection products in accordance with a specific job, without harming your health or health of others.
19. The ability to comply with protection regulatory requirements and perform job duties without harming the environment.
20. The ability to find, evaluate and use creatively collected knowledge of innovations in textile production and manufacturing industry.
21. The ability to provide constructive proposals to improve the working process.
22. The ability to work in a team and control the work of staff involved in the process.
23. The ability to perform independently and take responsibility for the results of your work.
24. The ability to comply with legal labour relation standards.
25. The ability to comply with the principles of professional and general ethics.
26. The ability to communicate in the official language and at least one foreign language.
27. The ability to use professional terminology in the official language and one foreign language.
28. The ability to provide the first aid.
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Manufacturing and processing (072)
Detailed field: (ISCED 2013)Textiles (clothes, footwear and leather) (0723)
EducationSecondary education
Qualification typeVocational
Full or partialFull qualification
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Last changes: 06.06.2019
Posted: 07.05.2016