Design Criteria, Evaluation & Commercial Production

Question 1

What is the use of mood boards?

Answer 1

To show clients more or less how the product is going to look like

Generate ideas

Explore different colours and materials

Question 2

Name 3 different ways to generate ideas

Answer 2

Nature

Architecture

Other Design Movements

Question 3

Define summative evaluation

Answer 3

Summarizes everything you have Estes and evaluated throughout the task

Question 4

Name 5 ways to evaluate your work

Answer 4

Test against specification

Compare with other products

Field Testing

Third Party Evaluation

List Improvements

Question 5

Name the different scales of production

Answer 5

One off

Mass

Batch

Continuous

JIT

Question 6

ONE OFF

Answer 6

A single product made for a specific function (wedding ring)

Question 7

Batch

Answer 7

Large or small numbers

Question 8

Mass

Answer 8

Product goes through many stages of production

Workers are less skilled

Question 9

Continuous

Answer 9

Products are being made 24/7

Workers are less skilled

Question 10

JIT

Answer 10

Just In Time

Products with lots of different options available (cars)

Each part of the product is planned to arrive just in time for its assembly

Requires close communication with suppliers

Question 11

Advantages of CAD

Answer 11

Accurate 
Save and edit ideas 
Can modify existing ideas 
Efficient 
Repetition
Less human error

Question 12

Disadvantages of CAD

Answer 12

Software is expensive
Training is expensive
Need staff to use it
Requires PC

Question 13

Advantages of CAM

Answer 13

Large scale production
Consistent results
High accuracy levels
Speeds up production

Question 14

Disadvantages of CAM

Answer 14

Software is expensive
Training is expensive
Can be slower than traditional methods for one off production
Staff needs to be trained on how to use it