Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A2 Product Design
- Sustainability
- Life Cycle Analysis
- 1. Obtaining of Raw Material
- 3. Processing of the material
- 4. Manufacture
- 5. Use (Product Life)/ maintenance
- 6. Disposal/Recycle
- 2. Transport
- Recycling/Disposal
- Risk Assessment
- Identification of risk.
- Decide who may be harmed and how
- Evaluate the risk and take action
- Record findings and implement them if necessary
- Review and update
- Issues/Implications
- Moral
- Social
- Cultural
- Aesthetics
- Do certain aspects of the product have
the ability to offend anyone?
- Environmental
- Sourcing of the material
- Transport
- Energy Use
- Marketing
- Manufacturing methods
- Wood
- Slash Sawing/ Through & Through sawing
- Cheap
- Common
- Can lead to faults
- Quarter Sawing
- Expensive
- Less imperfections
- More wasteful on the wood
- Metal
- Casting
- Gravity Die Casting
- Pressure Die Casting
- Investment Casting
- Sand Casting
- Plastic
- Injection moulding
- Rotational moulding
- Thermoforming
- Line Bending
- Finishing methods - they are used
to improve aesthetics and preserve
the product
- Varnish
- Requires various layers/coats
- Oil Based
- Water Based
- Paint
- A coat of Primer will be needed
- Requires various layers
- Wax
- Bees Wax
- Brywax
- Oils
- Linseed Oil
- Teak Oil
- Metals
- Galvanising (zinc coated)
counters weathering
- Electrolysing
- Management of Resources
- Manufacture Methods
- Job Production
- Job production where items are made individually
and each item is finished before the next one is
started.
- Mass Production
- Mass production is the production of large amounts of standardized
products, including and especially on assembly lines.
- Batch Production
- Batch production where groups of items are made together.
Each batch is finished before starting the next block of goods
- Labour Issues
- Skilled enough workforce
- Minimum wage
- Personal needs
- Materials
- Wood
- Manufactured Board
- MDF, Chipboard, Blockboard, Plywood
- Softwood
- E.g - Pine (Scots, Parana, Pitch), Yew, Cedar
- Hardwood
- E.g - Beech, Oak, Ash, Mahogany, Teak
- Metal
- Ferrous
- E.g - Steel
- Non-Ferrous
- E.g - Aluminium, Copper
- Alloys
- E.g - Brass, Stainless Steel
- Plastics
- Thermosetting
- Polyester Resin,
Epoxy Resin
- Thermoforming
- E.g - HDPE, LDPE,
Polypropylene, HIPS, Nylon,
Acrylic, PVC
- Specification
- Evaluation
- Testing
- Destructive Testing
- Non-Destructive Testing