Manufacturing/Industrial processes

Question 1

What is primary processing

Answer 1

Turning raw materials into useful standard stock sizes which are EASIER and CHEAPER to buy because parts are already made

Question 2

What is secondary processing

Answer 2

Turning standard stock materials into components or products

Question 3

What is casting and moulding

Answer 3

Pouring a liquid into a mould and waiting for it to take its shape

Question 4

What is forming

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Changing the shape and size of an object without changing its volume

Question 5

What is wastage

Answer 5

Changing both shape and size of a material

Question 6

What is conditioning

Answer 6

Changing the internal properties of a material

Question 7

What is assembling

Answer 7

Joining two or more materials together

Question 8

What is finishing

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Applying a coating/design to the surface to the product

Question 9

What is one off production

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A single product is only made once for one particular use

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What is just in time production

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All components arrive at the factory when their needed. Cheaper factories are used eg restaurants

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What is Batch production

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A group of identical items made together in grouped quantities eg books electrics games etc

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What is mass production

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A product it made on a large line of sequences where each stage of production is responsible for adding a part onto the product eg cars

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What is continuous production

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Production of a product is done 24/7 for cheap prices eg oil

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What is a jig

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Used to make parts of a component that are exactly the same, by going into the material

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What is a former

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A piece of material bent over a template

Question 16

What is a template

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A cut out that can be drawn around or into

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What is a pattern

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A replica of a finished product that is also used to make a mould. They are used for shaping products in a vacuum forming machine

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What is a mould

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A hollow shape that can have a material placed into and take the shape of, used when making lots of one type of component

Question 19

What is vacuum forming

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Using a sheet of plastic that is heated to stretch over a mould which is then cooled

Question 20

What is die Casting

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Injecting molten material between two plates

Question 21

What is extrusion

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Forcing molten material through a template (a dye) to take its shape

Question 22

What is injection moulding

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Injecting molten material into a cut out

Question 24

What is die cutting

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A manufacturing technique using a segregated blade shaped as the thing you want to cut out is used to cut through a material whilst attached to a plywood base

Question 25

What is blow moulding

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Used to manufacture HOLLOW plastics a molten mould is placed on a parsion between two halves of the mould air is blown into the molten until it takes up both halves

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What is rotational moulding

Answer 26

Another process to make a hollow object by putting molten material into a template that spins