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The Impact on Industry and Enterprise Flashcards

1
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How was the Industrial Revolution caused

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Due to the development of the emerging technology of the time: steam power

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Where a modern factories generally situated

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Located next to transport links

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3
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What is mass production

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Uses automated machinery that only produces that product 24/7. e.g Drink Cans

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4
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Repetitive tasks are now frequently carried out by….

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Robots

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5
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Automated systems produce products of…….quality at a….production cost because of the number of products they can produce……

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High
Low
Quickly

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6
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Give some disadvantages of automated systems

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Expensive set up cost
Requires a specialist workforce if it breaks down - costly
Power cuts

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7
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What is batch production

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Makes only 10,000’s of products, uses press formers

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How quickly can an entire Mini car be put together using robots

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24H

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9
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Give some tasks that robots can do

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Welding
Spraying 
Assembly tasks
Packaging
Labeling
Painting
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10
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What is Enterprise

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A skill where individuals or organisations are prepared to show initiative and take risks in order to make things happen.

Business and entrepreneurs look for business opportunities and gaps in markers in order to fill them.

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11
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Give two shows that encourage enterprise

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Dragon’s Den

The Apprentice

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12
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What is innovation

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Bringing new ideas to the market, inventing and developing ideas into products

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What is crowdfunding

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A method of funding a product by raising money from large numbers of people, only possible by the development of social media

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What is virtual marketing

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Uses marketing techniques in which social networks and websites are used ton increase a brands awareness

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What is a huge challenge facing the retail sectors

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Show-rooming - were customers go to look at a product before purchasing it only at a lower price

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16
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What did Tesco recently do in a subway in Korea

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Displayed all of it’s 500 most popular items, which users would click on which would then be delivered back go their house

17
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What is a Co-opertative business

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Is owned and self-managed by it’s owners

18
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How many co-operatives are their in the UK

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7,000 independent ones

19
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What is Fair Trade

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A movement which was created to help producers in developing countries.

20
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What is Fair Trade’s aim

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To achieve fair and better trading conditions and opportunities that promote sustainability

21
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What is sustainability

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Meeting our own present-day needs without compromising the needs of future generations - new technologies can help us do this

22
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What is a finite resource

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A resource that does not renew itself quick enough to meet the needs of future generations

23
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Give some example finite resources

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Coal, Oil, Gas

24
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Give some non-finite resources

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Water and plant life e,g trees

25
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How is technology helping sustainability

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Allowing us to use renewable resources a lot more effectively and rot generate more energy from them

26
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Give some ways in which a designer thinks about the life cycle of the product

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Using low impact materials

Conserving resources bye using recycled materials

Reducing material usage

Designing products that use less or no energy hen the product is in use

Ensuring a prolonged lifetime

Making sure that the material’s components can easily be recycled and recovered at the end of their lifetime.

27
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What is a modular design

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Where you can replace certain parts which extends the lifetime

28
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What is the effect a company has on people called

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A social footprint

29
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Companies have a responsibility to consider…………………and the working……….of their workforce

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Human Rights

Conditions

30
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What is the most common method that deals with waste

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Landfill

31
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What are the problems with landfill

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Causes pollution to the local environment such as contamination of groundwater and soil

Decaying organic waste also generates methane gas which is flammable and explosive

The smell

Effects on local wildlife

Noise pollution which could lead to decreased property prices

32
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What is incineration

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Involves the burning of waste materials

33
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Give the advantages of incineration

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Reduces the waste mass by 85% so reducing the volume of the landfill

However large amounts of Carbon Dioxide is released

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