Year 10 - Design and technology
Commercial viability: communal areas
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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 identify and understand the factors in making products commercially viable.
Key Notes
- Commercial viability is whether a product can be made, sold, and make a profit in the real world.
- Commercial viability helps businesses make decisions about materials, manufacturing, pricing, and marketing.
- It ensures the product is realistic, meets customer needs, and can compete with similar products in the market.
Vocabulary To Learn
- commercial viability: the likelihood of a product being successful in its target market and making a profit
- profit: the money a business earns after paying all its costs
- target market: the specific group of people a product is designed and sold for
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Commercial viability only relates to how well a product works.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Commercial viability is whether a product can be made, sold, and make a profit in the real world. Commercial viability helps businesses make decisions about materials, manufacturing, pricing, and marketing.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'commercial viability'
the likelihood of a product being successful in its target market and making a profit.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Commercial viability only relates to how well a product works. Correction: A product can work well or be aesthetically pleasing, but if it's too expensive to make, doesn't meet market demand, or won't sell at a profit, it isn't commercially viable.
More Lessons In This Unit
- CAM: communal areas Study Guide
- Define a brief from design opportunities: communal areas Study Guide
- Design development with CAD: communal areas Study Guide
- Design for manufacture: communal areas Study Guide
- Digital Media Presentation: communal areas Study Guide
- Disassemble flat pack furniture Study Guide
- Explore the context and avoid fixation Study Guide
- Iterate with CAD: communal areas Study Guide
- Iterate with modelling: communal areas Study Guide
- Life cycle assessment of flat pack furniture Study Guide
- Market testing: communal areas Study Guide
- Quality assurance when manufacturing: communal areas Study Guide
- Sketch modelling: communal areas Study Guide
- Specialist techniques and processes for manufacture: communal areas Study Guide
- Specialist tools and equipment for manufacture: communal areas Study Guide
- Standardised components Study Guide
- Surface treatments and finishes: communal areas Study Guide
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