MEM05016 Perform advanced welding using manual metal arc welding process

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for MEM05016 ended on 17 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 19 December 2023 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

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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
MEM05016C
Superseded by
MEM05072 not 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. MEM05016Superseded — not equivalentPerform advanced welding using manual metal arc welding process
  2. not equivalent
  3. MEM05072CurrentPerform advanced welding 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.

  • MEM05016CMEM05016equivalent25 June 2019

    Supersedes and is equivalent to MEM05016C Perform advanced welding using manual metal arc welding process

  • MEM05016MEM05072not equivalent18 December 2022

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

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Where MEM05016 is used

training.gov.au lists MEM05016 inside 12 training products, 10 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MEM05016 in that product.

Current products 10 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMEM05016 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 2 listed

The register still records MEM05016 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 productTypeMEM05016 is
MEM30319Certificate III in Engineering - Fabrication TradeQualificationelective
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 28 August 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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