MEM05015 Weld using manual metal arc welding process

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MEM05015 ended on 17 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
MEM — Manufacturing and Engineering
Currency period ends
17 December 2022
Latest release
Release 2 · 31 March 2021 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
MEM05015D
Superseded by
MEM05090 equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. MEM05015Superseded — equivalentWeld using manual metal arc welding process
  2. equivalent
  3. MEM05090CurrentWeld using manual metal arc welding process

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • MEM05015DMEM05015equivalent25 June 2019

    Supersedes and is equivalent to MEM05015D Weld using manual metal arc welding process

  • MEM05015MEM05090equivalent18 December 2022

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MEM05015 and for its training package MEM (release 5.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

Is MEM05015 on your scope?

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Where MEM05015 is used

training.gov.au lists MEM05015 inside 15 training products, 10 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MEM05015 in that product.

Current products 10 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMEM05015 is
MEASS00599MTA039 Aircraft welding using the manual metal arc welding process - aluminium alloysSkill setelective
MEASS00600MTA040 Aircraft welding using the manual metal arc welding process - magnesium alloysSkill setelective
MEASS00601MTA041 Aircraft welding using the manual metal arc welding process - carbon and low alloy steelsSkill setelective
MEASS00602MTA042 Aircraft welding using manual metal arc welding process - corrosion and heat resisting steelsSkill setelective
MEASS00603MTA043 Aircraft welding using the manual metal arc welding process - nickel alloysSkill setelective
MEASS00604MTA044 Aircraft welding using the manual metal arc welding process - copper based alloysSkill setelective
MEASS00605MTA045 Aircraft welding using the manual metal arc welding process - titanium alloysSkill setelective
MEM40119Certificate IV in EngineeringQualificationelective
MEM50119Diploma of Engineering - Advanced TradeQualificationelective
UEP40422Certificate IV in ESI Generation Maintenance (Fabrication)Qualificationcore

Products no longer current 5 listed

The register still records MEM05015 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeMEM05015 is
AHC30116Certificate III in AgricultureQualificationelective
MEM30319Certificate III in Engineering - Fabrication TradeQualificationelective
UEG30120Certificate III in Gas Supply Industry OperationsQualificationelective
UEG40220Certificate IV in Gas Supply Industry OperationsQualificationelective
UEP50322Diploma of ESI Generation (Maintenance)Qualificationelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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