Chapter 1 Flashcards
What does CAM stand for?
Computer aided Manufacturing
What are all the advantages of using CAM? (6 Adv’s)
1) Accuracy
2) Quality
3) Time saving
4) Repeatability
5) Cost in Labour
6) Able to share digitally (info/drawing)
What are all the disadvantages of using CAM? (4 Adv’s)
1) Investment in Hardware/software
2) Not cost effective for low volumes
3) Expensive machinery
4) Needs to be serviced regularly = money
What does CAD stand for?
Computer aided design
What are all the advantages of using CAD? (4 Adv’s)
1) Easy to export to CAM
2) Quality compared to hand drawings is better
3) Very accurate
4) Saves time
What are all the disadvantages of using CAD? (4 Adv’s)
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
What some examples of CNC machines?
- 3D printer
- Laser Cutter
- Vinyl Cutter
- CNC Router
- CNC Embroider
What are all the 6r’s?
1) Rethink
2) Refuse
3) Reduce
4) Reuse
5) Recycle
6) Repair
What does Rethink mean from the 6r’s?
Rethink your decision or what you’re buying or what you’re building
What does Refuse mean from the 6r’s?
Refuse anything that isn’t made by a sustainable company or any bad materials being used
What does Reduce mean from the 6r’s?
Can you reduce how much you buy or the material used
What does Reuse mean from the 6r’s?
Try and reuse a product you have bought or material being used
What does Recycle mean from the 6r’s?
Can the product be recycled after use
What does Repair mean from the 6r’s?
Is the product repairable
Will the planets resources going to run out?
Yes they are finite
What does the Linear economy state what should happen to product? (4 phases)
- Take materials to factory
- Make product in factory
- Use or consume product
- Throw away product once broken or used to fullest
What is the linear economy in 1 word?
Unsustainable
What are the 5 parts to the circular economy?
- Design
- Distribution
- Consumer/ households
- Re-use/repair/recycle
- Recycling sector
What is the circular economy in 1 word?
Sustainable
What is market push?
New products being created in response to customer demands
What is technology push?
When developments in manufacturing, technology; material lead to more improved products
What is the 4 separate parts to the product life cycle? (Graph)
1) Introduction
2) Growth
3) Maturity
4) Decline
What does ‘Introduction’ in the product lifecycle mean?
New products that have started to enter the world and have been used by the public, the customers are growing
What does ‘Growth’ in the product lifecycle mean?
The product has begun to become popular with the general public and is in higher demand
What does ‘Maturity’ in the product lifecycle mean?
Sales have peaked and growth stabilises
What does ‘Decline’ in the product lifecycle mean?
Products loses popularity, sales decline and the company makes different models to keep product selling
What are businesses moral duty?
Supply goods, and services fit for purpose, that are safe to use and as advertised
What does mass transportation create for the world? (environmental)
Pollution
What happens to the carbon footprint if pollution increases?
Carbon Footprint increases
How do greenhouse gases impact the world?
Cause global warming by acting as an insulation gas in the earth’s atmosphere –> traps heat from the sun
What is a big contributor to increase in CO2 levels?
Fossil Fuels
What does Ecological Footprint mean?
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.
What can the Ecological Footprint also tell us?
Measure of human impact on the world
What resources are used most in the ecological footprint?
Food, Building materials and consumables like paper and clothes
How much of UK’s average ecological footprint ISN’T sustainable?
5.6 hecters
What is the world wide ecological footprint?
1.7 Earths
What does sustainability mean?
Doing nothing to damage the environment
What could workers experience if the business they work for is focusing on an overall profit?
They can expect poor working conditions and pay
What would happen if a manufacturing company focused on an ethical approach to trade?
They’d focus on how their goods and benefit their consumers and also support socially responsible and environmental causes
What do ethical traders try to do?
Share a breakdown of prices of products
Why would some manufacturing businesses not show prices or cost breakdowns?
Could show poor wages for some workers and working conditions
What does the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) want in a question?
The environmental affects a product has
E.g: Transport, materials, manufactured, disposed of.
What is the Life Cycle analysis of paper?
- New fibres obtained
- Then production of pulp then paper
- Manufacture of final product
- Product used
- Product binned (End of life)
