Can an RTO still enrol new students in MSA71109?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 2 May 2013. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in MSA71109?

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).

MSA71109 Vocational Graduate Certificate in Competitive Manufacturing

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.

MSA71109Superseded — equivalentVocational Graduate Certificate in Competitive Manufacturing
equivalent
MSS70312Superseded — equivalentGraduate Certificate in Competitive Systems and Practices
equivalent
MSS80316Superseded — equivalentGraduate Certificate in Competitive Systems and Practices
equivalent
MSS80322CurrentGraduate Certificate in Competitive Systems and Practices

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.

MSA71109MSS70312equivalent1 May 2012
Equivalent outcomes - increased choice of electives

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MSA71109 and for its training package MSA07 (release 8.4), 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.

MSA71109_R2.pdfMSA71109 release 2 · product document · published 20 July 2012
MSA71109_R2.docxMSA71109 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is MSA71109 on your scope?

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Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What MSA71109 is made of

training.gov.au lists 37 units for MSA71109. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 37 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
MSACMG700A	Review continuous improvement processes	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG701A	Prepare for and implement change	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG702A	Review manufacturing practice tools and techniques	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG703A	Analyse process changes	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG704A	Facilitate improvements in the internal value chain	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG705A	Undertake a qualitative review of a process change	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG706A	Build relationships between teams in a manufacturing environment	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG707A	Respond to a major non-conformance	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG708A	Capture learning from daily activities in a manufacturing organisation	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG709A	Facilitate improvements in the external value chain	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG710A	Improve visual management in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG711A	Manage benchmarking studies	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG712A	Lead a problem solving process to determine and solve root cause	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG800A	Analyse data for relevance to organisational learning	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG801A	Develop the competitive manufacturing approach	`N/A`	not current
MSACMG802A	Audit the use of competitive tools	`N/A`	not current
MSACMS601A	Analyse and map a value chain	`N/A`	not current
MSACMS605A	Develop a Balanced Scorecard for use in competitive manufacturing	`N/A`	not current
MSACMS606A	Introduce competitive manufacturing to a small or medium enterprise	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT230A	Apply cost factors to work practices	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT280A	Undertake root cause analysis	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT452A	Apply statistics to processes in manufacturing	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT620A	Develop quick changeover procedures	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT622A	Design a process layout	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT623A	Develop a levelled pull system of manufacturing	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT630A	Optimise cost of product	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT631A	Undertake value analysis of product costs in terms of customer requirements	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT632A	Analyse cost implications of maintenance strategy	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT640A	Manage 5S system in a manufacturing environment	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT650A	Determine and improve process capability	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 7 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
MSACMT652A	Design an experiment	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT653A	Apply six sigma to process control and improvement	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT670A	Develop and manage sustainable energy practices	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT681A	Develop a proactive maintenance strategy	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT682A	Adapt a proactive maintenance strategy to the process manufacturing sector	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT683A	Adapt a proactive maintenance strategy for a seasonal or cyclical manufacturing operation	`N/A`	not current
MSAENV672B	Develop workplace policy and procedures for environmental sustainability	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

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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