Service and Delivery
Knowledge Element: System Installation
Definition of Knowledge Element:
Know how to provide a system in a customers premises. Understand all of the elements involved with installation including survey and commissioning
A very brief summary of the Knowledge:
The initial site survey will provide locations for equipment, cable routes, power sources etc. The customer should be consulted and advised during this process. The installation team should aim to cause as little disruption as possible and be sensitive to clutter in a working environment and excessive noise. Customer and staff safety should be paramount at all times. Initial commissioning should be done by the installation team and once operation has been verified, the customer should be involved and instructed.
A summary of expert opinion:
The knowledge named 'System Installation' is considered to be very important.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be slightly difficult to replace, it is mostly learned from experience, and Between 30% and 60% of Group are Experts.
It is also knowledge mostly used generally, and generally stable knowledge.
See Parameter table below for more detail.
Risk:
This knowledge element has a risk value of 4.81, whilst the average risk for the whole knowledge structure is 4.862. Consult the RISK page for more details.
The average risk of the prerequisite family of this knowledge node is 4.422 (adjusting for nodes with few members of the prerequisite family).
The average normalised prerequisite family risk of the whole map 2.122, whilst the average for the top ten percent family risk is 5.152.
Knowledge linked by learning dependency:
| Home page | |||||
| System Installation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commissioning a System | Site survey | Relevant health and safety | Job preparation | System configuration | Company products and services |
Postrequisite knowledge implies that System Installation must be understood before for a person can gain a full understanding of the knowledge listed in the top row of the Linked Knowledge table.
Prerequisite knowledge (bottom row in the Linked Knowledge table), is knowledge that should be understood before a full understanding of System Installation is possible.
This node has a prerequisite family consiting of 45 nodes, including the direct prerequisite knowledge shown above.
Parameters assigned for System Installation.
| Identifier | Name | Value | Clarifier | Weight | Study Mean |
P1 |
Importance |
8.0 |
very important |
1.0 |
6.34 |
P2 |
Recovery |
3.0 |
slightly difficult to replace |
1.0 |
3.38 |
P3 |
Study-Exp |
8.0 |
mostly learned from experience |
1.0 |
3.46 |
P4 |
Known By |
5.0 |
Between 30% and 60% of Group are Experts |
-1.0 |
2.80 |
P6 |
Specialised |
2.0 |
knowledge mostly used generally |
1.0 |
5.05 |
P7 |
Stability |
8.0 |
generally stable knowledge |
-0.7 |
6.41 |
People Involved with System Installation:
| Person | Expert | Capable | Responsible | M A Smith | --- |
Yes |
--- |
A A Pendragon | Yes |
--- |
Yes |
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Computed Similarity
The most similar node to System Installation is Fitting and Installing Communication equipment.
The most dissimilar node to System Installation is Establish evaluation criteria.