AOS2 Chapter 8 Part 1 (Optimising Operations)

Question 1

Technological development

Answer 1

• Improving equipments’ efficiency and effectiveness in helping performing task or creating products
• Include:
  • automated production lines
  • computer aided design (CAD)
  • computer aided manufacturing (CAM)
  • website development

Question 2

Automated production lines: define

Answer 2

• Process where raw materials enter and finished products leave with little or no human intervention
• Mostly in manufacturing industry where mass production of a standardised product is possible
• Each stations performs a specific task in the production line to produce end product

Question 3

Automated production line: advantages and disadvantages

Answer 3

- Advantages: 
• accuracy/ precision accuracy
• remove dangerous/ repetitive tasks
- Disadvantages: 
• requires technical training
• Initially very expensive

Question 4

Computer aided design (CAD)

Answer 4

• Computer programs which improve the creation and the editing of products in the design phase

Question 5

Computer aided manufacturing (CAM)

Answer 5

• The control of machinery and equipment through instructions from a computer

Question 6

CAD and CAM: advantages and disadvantages

Answer 6

- Advantages:
• increase quality
• customer involvement
- Disadvantages:
• starts very expensive 
• may replace labor

Question 7

Ecommerce

Answer 7

• Buying and selling goods and services or the transmitting of funds or data, over an electronic network, primarily the internet