Lecture 10

Question 1

What are the main types of raw material extraction (4)?

Answer 1

• metal mining
• plastic creation
• coal mining
• oil drilling
• silicon quarrying

Question 2

What is material processing?

Answer 2

turning raw material into the state it needs to be in to be used

Question 3

What is manufacturing?

Answer 3

where the product is assembled

Question 4

What is distribution?

Answer 4

moving the product to where it needs to be

Question 5

what is preventive and corrective maintenance?

Answer 5

preventative: making sure things don’t go wrong
corrective: fixing where things go wrong

Question 6

what is technical obsolescence?

Answer 6

when you are no longer able to make something because you can no longer get one of the parts

Question 7

what is aesthetic obsolescence?

Answer 7

when the product is no longer trending

Question 8

what is economic obsolescene?

Answer 8

when there are new cheaper ways to do something

Question 9

what is legal obsolescence

Answer 9

new laws or legislation make you unable to use a product

Question 10

what is functional obsolescence?

Answer 10

when the product no longer fulfills the needs of the user