Section B Flashcards
- One off production
Bespoke items that are designed for or commissioned by individual clients are classed as one-off products. They might be made to perform a specific task and can’t be brought off the shelf
- Batch production
This method of production is used when a certain number of identical products are required. This is known as a batch as they will all have been produced together. Usually, once a batch has been produced some or all of the processes will be altered to produce the next batch. Change in market trends
- Mass production
Mass produced products tend to be items that are in constant use and where the design does not change significantly. E.g. drinks, electronics (phones), cars
- Continuous production
Continuous production is very similar to mass production although the products tend to be made to create stock or standard material forms before final processing or assembling elsewhere. E.g. plastic bottles
- Sustainability
Our player has to provide all of our basic human needs, such as food, shelter and warmth. Humans have learned to use and manipulate many of Earth’s natural resources to help provide these essentials and increasingly, many non-essential products as well. The long term sustainability of the planets resources is very much in the forefront of responsible designers’ minds when new and emerging technologies are invented or discovered
- Finite resources
Finite resources are ones which are in limited supply or that cannot be reproduced
- Non-finite resources
Non-finite resources are ones which are in abundant supply. Or ones that can be grown and replaced at the rate that they are being used
- Life cycle assessment
Conducting a life cycle assessment is a way for companies to asses the environmental impact of a product during the different stages of the products life
- Waste disposal
We are now living in a society where everybody should take responsibility for recycling. This is to ensure that the resources we have will last as long as possible and that landfill sites do not fill up too quickly
- Environment
The consequences of such a large population are that resources are being used up at a very fast rate, and the impact in the environment is becoming increasingly noticeable. Some new technologies are being developed to try to reduce this negative impact, and are being adopted by a number of forward-thinking designers and manufacturers
- Pollution
It is almost impossible to make a product without causing some form of pollution. It may be created directly through processing materials or indirectly through energy consumption in manufacture or during the product’s use.
- Global warming
Owing to the worldwide population since the industrial revolution mixed with the boom in global manufacturing, unprecedented levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses have been released in to the atmosphere
- Planned obsolescence
Ensuring a product only performs its task for a certain length of time is known as planned or built-in obsolescence and is something designers and manufacturers need to consider for a number of reasons
- End of working life disposal
How a product is dealt with at the end of its useful life needs to be considered when the product is designed. How reusable or recyclable a product is will depend on the choice of materials and the way those materials are joined or bonded together.
- Die cutting (8 steps)
- Blank sheet of material is printed on
- Cutting die set in machines support plate
- Loaded and aligned on to the cutting plate
- Pressure makes contact with the die
- The steel ruler is used
- The cutting plate lowers to cut the shape out of the material
- Materials are removed
- Repeat process
