D&T

• Market pull products we have needed to design eg a bike
• Technology push products that have come from improved technology eg a phone
• Iterative design is a cycle of designing prototyping and testing develop an idea and achieve the best possible outcome.
• Inclusive design makes things usable by everyone regardless of age abil and circumstance.
• Collaboration is sharing ideas by working together to solve design problems.
• User centred design is a group or client with a specific problem that needs solving.
• Avoiding design fixation avoiding getting stuck with an idea that is really obvious and not being able to see beyond it
• Design specifications is the requirements of something.
• Prototyping is an early sample model or release of a product built to test a concept or process
• one off is when just one complete product is produced
• Batch is when a limited number of the same product are made during a particular period of time.
• Mass is manufacturing large quantities over a long period of time.
• Continuous is 24/7 runs continuously and is automated.
• Automation is robots and artificial intelligence completing repetitive tasks
• CAD creates precise 2D or 3D drawings
• CAM is automated machinery to manufacture physical parts
• JIT just in time product is created to order to avoid waste
• Lean manufacturing is a production system that focuses on eliminating waste and improving quality and efficiency.
• Advantages and disadvantages

  
• Advantages of JIT no where housing costs and stock does not become obsolete damaged or deteriorated
• Disadvantages of JIT is stock is not avail immediately off the shelf and fewer benefits from bulk purchases
• Jigs help you line objects up
• Mould help you form objects by surrounding and shaping them
• Formers help you to bend and shape objects accurately and consistently
• Quality control is checking that a product is maintained or improved.
• In the lamp red is positive and black is negative