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WorksheetsHigher Quiz 1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What are two benefits to the manufacturer of using standard components?
Might not meet you quality assurance & can be bought in bulk
Allows JIT to be used & simplifies assembly
Will need to deal with 3rd party & if you have some left over then you can use them for other products
Which manufacturing process allows you to create hollow parts with an even wall thickness?
Blow moulding
Rotational moulding
Injection moulding
Name 3 people in the design team
Mass production technician, lawyer and materials technologist
Lawyer, materials technologist and market researcher
Project manager, sub-contractor and CEO market researcher
How do retailers have influence over the design of a product?
Supplies the feedback on the design
Chooses how it looks
Creates the main design of the product
Which of the statements below are benefits of using CAD in the design process?
More accurate than drawing by hand
Designs can be produced into the pattern then removed to leave a cavity all done by hand.
Gets ideas down quickly with as much information as needed
Which of the following are Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)?
property rights, land rights, trade rights
bill of rights, property rights, civil rights
design rights, copyrights, patents
What do designers do as part of the design team?
Ensure that the product can be manufactured
Develop the marketing strategies that that are used to promote the product
Provide the initial ideas
Describe a method that could be used to gather market research information for a game for children
Go around asking people if they like existing games and see what they like or don't like
Gather a group of children together as a focus group and ask them to describe the types of games & activities that they enjoy
Make a quiz and ask people to complete it
Most manufacturers create products with planned obsolescence in mind.
What does this mean and why do they use it?
Planned obsolescence involves designing products that can be used for a long time without the product eventually going out of date. This is done to ensure that people that use the products get the most out of them.
Planned obsolescence involves products being made with the best manufacturing processes to ensure that there is less materials wasted after being made.
Planned obsolescence involves giving products built in life expectancy so that more people will be more willing to purchase newer products.
3 properties of aluminium are......
High strength, superior malleability, magnetic
Low weight, easy machining, brittle
Conducts electricity, high strength, low weight
The best way to manufacture a plastic water bottle would be.....?
Blow moulding
Rotational moulding
Vacuum forming
Name two suitable materials for making a work bench and give two positives for each material that you have chosen. (the properties cannot be the same)
Acrylic- strong and bendy, Beech- crates a bad finish and easy to snap
Spruce wood- strong and sturdy, Melamine formaldehyde- stiff and resists some chemicals and stains.
PVC- weak and brittle, aluminium- strong and good insulator.
What are sketch models used for?
To use for marketing purposes
To check a range of issues with products
To quickly produce concept ideas
What is the correct definition of Confidentiality
Allows a company to protect trade secrets, recipes, formulas
Allows a company to protect the name or identity of their product
Protects the design of the product from being used by other companies
What is Primary research?
Presenting research using tables, charts, graphs and extended text
It's when you gather existing data from other sources like companies, universities etc.
It's when you gather new data using things like surveys, questionnaire's and focus groups
