Year 10 - Design and technology
Design for manufacture: saving space
Saving space context
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Unit Summary
Pupils will use disassembly to investigate an existing piece of flat-pack furniture, including material sources. They will use this information to inform designs. Pupils will focus on user-centred design to create and develop ideas and then plan the manufacturer for a product.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain why designers modify designs for manufacture and apply this knowledge when prototyping.
Key Notes
- The manufacturing method can influence the design.
- Designs might need to be modified depending on CAM constraints.
Vocabulary To Learn
- modifications: making changes or adjustments to improve or alter a design
- manufacture: the process of making products from raw materials using machines or labour
- constraints: restrictions that shape a design solution
- CAM: computer aided manufacture
- CAD: computer aided design
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Once a design has been decided upon, it cannot be altered.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
The manufacturing method can influence the design. Designs might need to be modified depending on CAM constraints.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'modifications'
making changes or adjustments to improve or alter a design.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Once a design has been decided upon, it cannot be altered. Correction: A design can continue to be altered, even when at the manufacturing stage.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Commercial viability: saving space Study Guide
- Define a brief from design opportunities: saving space Study Guide
- Design development with CAD: saving space Study Guide
- Digital Media Presentation: saving space Study Guide
- Disassemble flat pack furniture Study Guide
- Evaluation of market and user testing: saving space Study Guide
- Explore the context and avoid fixation Study Guide
- Iterate with CAD: saving space Study Guide
- Iterate with modelling: saving space Study Guide
- Laser cutting Study Guide
- Life cycle assessment of flat pack furniture Study Guide
- Quality assurance when manufacturing: saving space Study Guide
- Sketch modelling: saving space Study Guide
- Specialist techniques and processes for manufacture: saving space Study Guide
- Specialist tools and equipment for manufacture: saving space Study Guide
- Standardised components Study Guide
- Surface treatments and finishes: saving space Study Guide
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