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Chapter 1 Flashcards

1
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What does CAM stand for?

A

Computer aided Manufacturing

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2
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What are all the advantages of using CAM? (6 Adv’s)

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1) Accuracy
2) Quality
3) Time saving
4) Repeatability
5) Cost in Labour
6) Able to share digitally (info/drawing)

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What are all the disadvantages of using CAM? (4 Adv’s)

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1) Investment in Hardware/software
2) Not cost effective for low volumes
3) Expensive machinery
4) Needs to be serviced regularly = money

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4
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What does CAD stand for?

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Computer aided design

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5
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What are all the advantages of using CAD? (4 Adv’s)

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1) Easy to export to CAM
2) Quality compared to hand drawings is better
3) Very accurate
4) Saves time

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6
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What are all the disadvantages of using CAD? (4 Adv’s)

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1) Expensive and powerful computers are necessary
2) Software is expensive
3) Takes time to understand how to use
4) Every software needs to be updated creating running costs

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7
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What some examples of CNC machines?

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  • 3D printer
  • Laser Cutter
  • Vinyl Cutter
  • CNC Router
  • CNC Embroider
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8
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What are all the 6r’s?

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1) Rethink
2) Refuse
3) Reduce
4) Reuse
5) Recycle
6) Repair

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What does Rethink mean from the 6r’s?

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Rethink your decision or what you’re buying or what you’re building

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What does Refuse mean from the 6r’s?

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Refuse anything that isn’t made by a sustainable company or any bad materials being used

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What does Reduce mean from the 6r’s?

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Can you reduce how much you buy or the material used

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What does Reuse mean from the 6r’s?

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Try and reuse a product you have bought or material being used

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What does Recycle mean from the 6r’s?

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Can the product be recycled after use

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What does Repair mean from the 6r’s?

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Is the product repairable

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15
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Will the planets resources going to run out?

A

Yes they are finite

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16
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What does the Linear economy state what should happen to product? (4 phases)

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  1. Take materials to factory
  2. Make product in factory
  3. Use or consume product
  4. Throw away product once broken or used to fullest
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17
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What is the linear economy in 1 word?

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Unsustainable

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18
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What are the 5 parts to the circular economy?

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  1. Design
  2. Distribution
  3. Consumer/ households
  4. Re-use/repair/recycle
  5. Recycling sector
19
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What is the circular economy in 1 word?

A

Sustainable

20
Q

What is market push?

A

New products being created in response to customer demands

21
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What is technology push?

A

When developments in manufacturing, technology; material lead to more improved products

22
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What is the 4 separate parts to the product life cycle? (Graph)

A

1) Introduction
2) Growth
3) Maturity
4) Decline

23
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What does ‘Introduction’ in the product lifecycle mean?

A

New products that have started to enter the world and have been used by the public, the customers are growing

24
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What does ‘Growth’ in the product lifecycle mean?

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The product has begun to become popular with the general public and is in higher demand

25
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What does ‘Maturity’ in the product lifecycle mean?

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Sales have peaked and growth stabilises

26
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What does ‘Decline’ in the product lifecycle mean?

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Products loses popularity, sales decline and the company makes different models to keep product selling

27
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What are businesses moral duty?

A

Supply goods, and services fit for purpose, that are safe to use and as advertised

28
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What does mass transportation create for the world? (environmental)

A

Pollution

29
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What happens to the carbon footprint if pollution increases?

A

Carbon Footprint increases

30
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How do greenhouse gases impact the world?

A

Cause global warming by acting as an insulation gas in the earth’s atmosphere –> traps heat from the sun

31
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What is a big contributor to increase in CO2 levels?

A

Fossil Fuels

32
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What does Ecological Footprint mean?

A

Ecological footprint in a measurement of the impact of a person or community on the environment, or eco-system, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.

33
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What can the Ecological Footprint also tell us?

A

Measure of human impact on the world

34
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What resources are used most in the ecological footprint?

A

Food, Building materials and consumables like paper and clothes

35
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How much of UK’s average ecological footprint ISN’T sustainable?

A

5.6 hecters

36
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What is the world wide ecological footprint?

A

1.7 Earths

37
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What does sustainability mean?

A

Doing nothing to damage the environment

38
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What could workers experience if the business they work for is focusing on an overall profit?

A

They can expect poor working conditions and pay

39
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What would happen if a manufacturing company focused on an ethical approach to trade?

A

They’d focus on how their goods and benefit their consumers and also support socially responsible and environmental causes

40
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What do ethical traders try to do?

A

Share a breakdown of prices of products

41
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Why would some manufacturing businesses not show prices or cost breakdowns?

A

Could show poor wages for some workers and working conditions

42
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What does the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) want in a question?

A

The environmental affects a product has

E.g: Transport, materials, manufactured, disposed of.

43
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What is the Life Cycle analysis of paper?

A
  1. New fibres obtained
  2. Then production of pulp then paper
  3. Manufacture of final product
  4. Product used
  5. Product binned (End of life)

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