Chapter 1- New And Emerging Technologies Flashcards

(52 cards)

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What is the role of a technologist?

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To embrace change and turn inspired ideas into reality

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What inventions have significantly changed the way we live our lives?

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  • Computers
  • Electricity
  • Telephone
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What is automation?

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Machinery doing the job for us

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What did automation lead to?

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  • Larger Workshops
  • Mills
  • Factories
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Advantages of Automation

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  • Easier to program robots
  • They are precise and more accurate
  • Do not need breaks
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Disadvantages of automation

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  • Expensive to set up
  • Require a Specialist Workforce
  • If machinery breaks down it’s too expensive to repair
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Why is the ability to sketch designs on paper still considered important by many designers?

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So they can get client and customer feedback

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Physical layout of using automation

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  • Not much space will be needed

- Everything has to be organised

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What is Innovation?

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Something new / New ideas

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What is Enterprise?

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A skill where individuals or organisations take risks in order to make thing happen

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What is a start-up business?

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A business that has potential to grow into a profit making business

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What is a patent?

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A legal process of proving to have registered an idea or invention

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What is Crowd Funding?

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  • It’s a form of investment

- A method of funding a project by raising large numbers of people

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Types of Crowd funding

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  • Donations

- Equity- money buys shares in business and debt

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What is Virtuel Marketing?

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Online Marketing

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Forms of Virtual Marketing

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  • Search Engine optimisation- make website appear on first page of search results
  • Social Media
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What is a cooperative?

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A business owned, governed and self managed by its workers

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What is Fairtrade?

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It’s about:

  • Decent Working conditions
  • Better prices for workers
  • Promoting sustainability for developing countries
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What are Finite resources + Examples?

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  • Resources that will run out

- E.g Coal, Petrol

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What are Non-Finite resources?

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  • Resources that will not run out
  • Resources that can be replaces
  • E.g Solar Panels, Cotton
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What is biomass?

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Ways of using energy from living things

22
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Explain the Life cycle Assesment

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  • Extraction and Processing
  • Manufacturing And Production
  • Distribution
  • In Use
  • End of Life
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What can a company learn by conducting a life cycle assessment?

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  • Can learn how sustainable a product is
  • Reduce environmental impact and waste
  • How to reduce costs
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What is an Ecological Footprint?

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The impact of a person or community on the environment

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What is a social footprint?
The impact of a company or organisation has on people and communities
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Explain Technology Push
When technology advances enough to invent or develop new products
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Explain Market pull
When consumer demand forces the invention or development of a new product
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Changes in job roles due to automation and new technology
- Automation leads to a reduction in the need for manual labour - Workforce will need to be flexible - Workers may perform in jobs that do not exist today
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What are fashion trends influenced by?
Changing technology
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Why is it important for a company to keep up with their latest trends?
Allows products to remain popular while creating new and innovative looks
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What does a designer have to consider when launching a new product within certain communities?
- Faiths and Beliefs | - Fashion and Trends
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What are the 4 main ways for designers to produce products so that the majority of the population are catered for?
- One size fits all - A range of sizes to cover all - Adjustability to allow use by all - Adaptability to suit location or user
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What is mass market?
The market for goods that are produced in large numbers
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What social factors do designers need to consider when making products?
- Elderly - People with disabilities - Religious group
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What is continuous improvement?
A process of making small changes to improve the way a company works. In industry this process is known as ‘Kaizen’
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How can a company ensure it is working efficiently?
- Increasing speed of production - Reducing errors - Reducing Waste
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How can a business reduce its levels of pollution?
By conducting the Life cycle Assessment (LCA)
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Explain global warming + How to reduce it
- GW is the rise in the average temperature of the Earth | - To reduce it we should use renewable energy
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Production techniques and systems
- Automation - CAD(Computer aided design) - CAM(Computer aided maufacture - Flexible Manufacturing Systems - Just in time (JIT) - Lean Manufacturing
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Advantages of using CAD
- Designs can be easily altered - Designs can be worked on whole teams simultaneously - Faster to draw designs + Complex shapes
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Disadvantages of using CAD
- CAD software is complex to learn - Software can be very expensive - Data can be lost in power cuts/ outage
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Advantages of using CAM
- Faster - More Accurate - Machines can run 24/7
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Disadvantages of CAM
- Expensive to set up - Training costs and time - Needs specialist engineers if machine needs maintaining or repairing
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What is a flexible manufacturing system?
A series of different machines producing different parts of a product. Flexible- machine process can be reprogrammed
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What is Just in time (JIT)?
A production method that means materials and components arrive in time for production
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What is post processing?
A stage which allows you to convert CAD into the language that the machine understands
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What is lean manufacturing?
Focusing on the reduction of waste when manufacturing
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Advantages of JIT
- Money is not tied up in unsold stock - Stock does not become old/obsolete - All waste is reused or recycled
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Disadvantages if JIT
- Discounts from suppliers for bulk purchasing may not be available - All production can stop if supply chain breaks down - Relies on high quality, fast and reliable supply chain for raw materials and Components
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What is planned obsolescence?
Deliberately giving a product a short life span
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Describe design for maintenance
Ensuring a product lasts long through parts that can be easily replaced or repaired
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What should end of life design include?
- As few materials as possible - Recycled/Recyclable materials - Built in re-usability