The Impact on Industry and Enterprise Flashcards
How was the Industrial Revolution caused
Due to the development of the emerging technology of the time: steam power
Where a modern factories generally situated
Located next to transport links
What is mass production
Uses automated machinery that only produces that product 24/7. e.g Drink Cans
Repetitive tasks are now frequently carried out by….
Robots
Automated systems produce products of…….quality at a….production cost because of the number of products they can produce……
High
Low
Quickly
Give some disadvantages of automated systems
Expensive set up cost
Requires a specialist workforce if it breaks down - costly
Power cuts
What is batch production
Makes only 10,000’s of products, uses press formers
How quickly can an entire Mini car be put together using robots
24H
Give some tasks that robots can do
Welding Spraying Assembly tasks Packaging Labeling Painting
What is Enterprise
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.
Give two shows that encourage enterprise
Dragon’s Den
The Apprentice
What is innovation
Bringing new ideas to the market, inventing and developing ideas into products
What is crowdfunding
A method of funding a product by raising money from large numbers of people, only possible by the development of social media
What is virtual marketing
Uses marketing techniques in which social networks and websites are used ton increase a brands awareness
What is a huge challenge facing the retail sectors
Show-rooming - were customers go to look at a product before purchasing it only at a lower price
What did Tesco recently do in a subway in Korea
Displayed all of it’s 500 most popular items, which users would click on which would then be delivered back go their house
What is a Co-opertative business
Is owned and self-managed by it’s owners
How many co-operatives are their in the UK
7,000 independent ones
What is Fair Trade
A movement which was created to help producers in developing countries.
What is Fair Trade’s aim
To achieve fair and better trading conditions and opportunities that promote sustainability
What is sustainability
Meeting our own present-day needs without compromising the needs of future generations - new technologies can help us do this
What is a finite resource
A resource that does not renew itself quick enough to meet the needs of future generations
Give some example finite resources
Coal, Oil, Gas
Give some non-finite resources
Water and plant life e,g trees
How is technology helping sustainability
Allowing us to use renewable resources a lot more effectively and rot generate more energy from them
Give some ways in which a designer thinks about the life cycle of the product
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.
What is a modular design
Where you can replace certain parts which extends the lifetime
What is the effect a company has on people called
A social footprint
Companies have a responsibility to consider…………………and the working……….of their workforce
Human Rights
Conditions
What is the most common method that deals with waste
Landfill
What are the problems with landfill
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
What is incineration
Involves the burning of waste materials
Give the advantages of incineration
Reduces the waste mass by 85% so reducing the volume of the landfill
However large amounts of Carbon Dioxide is released
