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View detailed profileCAQA Polyform Plastics and Cable is a simulated plastics, rubber and cable manufacturing workplace created by CAQA for training and assessment against the Plastics, Rubber and Cablemaking. Formed for purpose.
Visit website ↗CAQA Polyform Plastics and Cable makes moulded and extruded plastic components, polyethylene and PVC pipe, low voltage power and control cable, and rubber compounds, conveyor belting and linings for customers in building products, water, mining, agriculture and electrical wholesale.
CAQA Polyform Plastics and Cable makes moulded and extruded plastic components, polyethylene and PVC pipe, low voltage power and control cable, and rubber compounds, conveyor belting and linings for customers in building products, water, mining, agriculture and electrical wholesale. The Dandenong South plant runs 14 injection moulding machines from 80 to 1,100 tonnes and three extrusion lines. The Bayswater cable works draws, strands and insulates copper conductor and sheaths finished cable. The Wingfield works compounds rubber, calenders sheet, builds and repairs conveyor belts and sends splicing crews to mine and quarry sites across South Australia.
The business runs three shifts at Dandenong South and Bayswater from Monday to Friday with a weekend shift when order books require it, and a day shift plus site crews at Wingfield. Each production area has a supervisor, setters or technicians and operators, supported by tooling and maintenance, a materials store and a laboratory. Six departments report to the General Manager: Injection Moulding, Extrusion and Film, Cable Works, Rubber and Belting, Tooling and Maintenance, and Technical, Quality and WHS. Production is planned from job cards raised against customer orders and tracked from setup through first-off approval to packing.
Nobody reaches into a machine, mould or press that is not isolated. Every tool change and clearance is done under lock out.
A run does not continue until the first-off has been measured and approved against the setting sheet and the drawing.
Temperatures, pressures, dimensions and cure times are set from the sheet and recorded, and changes go through the setter and the technical team.