Year 10 - Design and technology
Quality assurance when manufacturing: 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 manufacture accurately and to a high quality.
Key Notes
- Designers and manufacturers use quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC).
- Quality assurance is about checking the planning and processes.
- Quality control is about checking the product to make sure it meets the required standard.
- When QA and QC checks take place, they are ensuring accuracy.
Vocabulary To Learn
- manufacture: the process of making products from raw materials using machines or labour
- quality assurance: ensuring the production process prevents mistakes and maintains quality
- quality control: checks made on a product before, during and after its production so it meets quality and safety standards
- accuracy: being correct and precise
- tolerance: the acceptable range of variation in a product's dimensions
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Quality control and quality assurance is the same thing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Designers and manufacturers use quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC). Quality assurance is about checking the planning and processes.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'manufacture'
the process of making products from raw materials using machines or labour.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Quality control and quality assurance is the same thing. Correction: Quality control focuses on identifying defects in finished products, while quality assurance is about preventing defects through planned processes and systems during production.
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- Commercial viability: 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
- 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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