Year 10 - Design and technology
Quality control: textiles
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Unit Summary
Pupils learn about biomimicry and innovation. They will learn how to use sources of inspiration to create a range of ideas for a product encouraging children to grow vegetables. The pupils will develop ideas and manufacture a prototype. Variation allows for different material outcomes.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use quality control checks to ensure the manufacture of your design is successful.
Key Notes
- Accuracy when manufacturing ensures quality.
- Quality checks can be made using visual inspection.
- Quality control checks can be made using measurements which can be automated or manual.
- Quality control is planned in advance of manufacture.
Vocabulary To Learn
- quality control: checks made on a product before, during and after its manufacture 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 checks are performed on products after they are made to ensure they meet the required quality standards for sale or use.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Accuracy when manufacturing ensures quality. Quality checks can be made using visual inspection.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'quality control'
checks made on a product before, during and after its manufacture so it meets quality and safety standards.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Quality control checks are performed on products after they are made to ensure they meet the required quality standards for sale or use. Correction: Quality control checks are performed throughout the process to ensure quality remains constant.
More Lessons In This Unit
- AI to develop ideas: textiles Study Guide
- Biomimicry Study Guide
- Equipment and machinery: textiles Study Guide
- Evaluate with user feedback: textiles Study Guide
- Generating design ideas using SCAMPER Study Guide
- Identify environmental impact Study Guide
- Innovation when generating ideas Study Guide
- Mark out and prepare materials: textiles Study Guide
- Materials and manufacturing processes: textiles Study Guide
- Parts lists: textiles Study Guide
- Plan manufacture using orthographic projection: textiles Study Guide
- Product requirements Study Guide
- Proportions and scale: textiles Study Guide
- Testing and modifications: textiles Study Guide
- Time planning: textiles Study Guide
- Tools and processes: textiles Study Guide
- Using feedback to develop ideas Study Guide
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