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Year 11 - Design and technology

Quality

Designing and Making Principles

Unit Summary

In this unit pupils will develop designing and making principles knowledge with an explicit focus on exam technique.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to explain how products are monitored and tested to meet quality standards.

Key Notes

  • Improving the production process prevents defects and ensures consistent quality.
  • Inspecting and testing products helps identify and correct defects.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • Quality Assurance (QA): ensuring the production process prevents mistakes and maintains quality
  • Quality Control (QC): checks made on a product before, during and after its production so it meets quality and safety standards
  • tolerance: the acceptable range of variation in a product's dimensions, or weight
  • standardise: make components or processes the same to ensure consistency and quality

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • QA and QC are the same thing.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Improving the production process prevents defects and ensures consistent quality. Inspecting and testing products helps identify and correct defects.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Quality Assurance (QA)'

ensuring the production process prevents mistakes and maintains quality.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: QA and QC are the same thing. Correction: QA (Quality Assurance) focuses on preventing defects by improving the production process, while QC (Quality Control) focuses on identifying and fixing defects in the finished product.

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