New and Emerging Tech

• Car manufacturers are steadily producing new electric vehicles
• One day, we may see the end of the internal combustion engine and the 'traditional motor car'
• Battery technology


  Crucial in the development of electric vehicles
• Reasons why battery technology is crucial

  • Cars need to travel long distances between recharging
  • Decrease charging times for short distances
  • Effort to be similar to the time it takes for a petrol tank
  • Never able to recharge a battery instantly
• Government actions to encourage electric vehicle ownership


  • Install charging points
  • Provide charging points at the workplace
  • Claim tax benefits on car purchases
  • No road tax
  • Develop smaller lighter batteries capable of holding a larger charge
  • Increased life expectancy
• Stages of manufacture and assembly

  1. Raw materials received

  2. Metal sheet bending

  3. External parts assembly

  4. Painting

  5. Lacquering

  6. Interior parts assembly

  7. Quality control

  8. Shipping
• 3D printing technology has been around for over a decade, but it is now starting to become widely accessible
• One day all households may have a 3D printer with the ability to print anything to a similar quality as current manufacturing standards
• Impact of 3D printing on the spare parts industry for small household appliances

  • User may download a spare part printing file for a small fee or go to a local shop similar to a key cutter, print out, go home, and install it
  • Product longevity will increase, manufactured obsolescence will decrease, company can offer lifetime support, access perfect made parts
• Effect of 3D printing on the sale of new tools and equipment


  • Repaired industry likely to boom, more small business employees, reduction in volume of goods sold, products have a longer lifespan, manufacturing designing that require specialist tools and equipment
• Benefits of a small repairs company becoming a cooperative

  • Sharing ownership, emotionally and financially connected to business, innovation
• Finite resources used in the production of a pair of training shoes

  • Plastic, rubber, oil, coal, gas
• How could finite resources be replaced by non-finite resources to make production 'greener'
• Since they comprise many parts of different materials
• Finite resources used in the production of a pair of training shoes

  • Oil
  • Coal
  • Gas
• Finite resources used in the production of a pair of training shoes

  Powering power stations to fuel production
• How to make production 'greener'

  • Use renewable fuel sources to power manufacturing processes
  • Use only recycled materials in shoes
• Finite resources

  Non-renewable resources like fossil fuels
• Non-finite resources


  Resources that can be replenished like oxygen, fresh water, timber, leather
• Oil distillation process produces pollutants
• Transport of bags to retailers

  Creates pollution
• Plastic bags contribute to pollution in the air and water

  • Oil distillation process produces pollutants
  • Bags ending up in the ocean
• CO2 emissions impact global warming
• Biodegradable polymers are being used as an alternative solution
• Charging for bags has reduced consumption by 80% in the UK in the first year
• Factories manufacturing mobile phone technology are becoming more and more automated, using robots for parts assembly and warehouse control. Despite this, they employ hundreds of thousands of people
• Roles more or less likely to be replaced by a robot or an automated process


  • Roles involving peeling, empathy, or social intelligence are unlikely to be replaced
  • Thinking, negotiation, care assistance, and originality aren't likely to change
  • Assembly, repetitive structured processes, small spaces are likely to be automated
• Job roles in order of those most under threat from automation

  • Personal assistant or secretary
  • Graphic designer
  • Sewing machinist
  • Large goods vehicle driver
  • Vehicle assembler
  • Teacher
  • Pilot
  • Mechanical engineer
  • Packer, bottler, cann
• Job roles most under threat from automation


  • Routine inspector and tester
  • Graphic designer
  • Sewing machinist
  • Packer, bottler, canner or filler
  • Large goods vehicle driver
  • Vehicle assembler
  • Pilot
  • Mechanical engineer
  • Personal assistant or secretary
  • 10. Teacher
• Changes in manufacturing with the introduction of robotics and automated procedures

  1. Upskilling of technicians to oversee equipment and maintenance programmes and software

  2. Technicians to develop movement paths and customisations
• Colour can be used to indicate meaning, but this meaning can be understood differently in different cultures
• Suitable colour indicator for ecology or safe passage
• Green conveys safety, calmness, nature, and help
• Meaning of the colour green in various societies
• Meanings of green in various societies

  • Envy
  • Luck
• Choice of colour for packaging a new environmental product designed for sale internationally depends on culture and their colour association
• Impact of Amazon Air delivery service on traditional delivery services for Amazon
• Restrictions on the operation of delivery drones
• Impact of Amazon Air delivery service on delivery services offered by competitors
• Negative impacts of the new Amazon Air delivery service on society