Design Eng May 2023

Give two advantages of designing products for disassembly

• Easier to dispose of

• Disassembly allows components or materials to be recycled/reused

• Easier to put together/assemble

• Disassembly allows parts to be replaced/fixed/repaired

Designers and companies want to protect (safeguard) iconic designs using copyright. select the copyright symbol.

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State one other method of protecting a design.

• patent

• Conformite European

• British Standards Institute Kitemark

Complete the statements.

Designers will try to ensure their products are comfortable to use and that the user can interact with them effectively. This is called

• ergonomics

• anthropometrics

Give a reason why a client may be advised to reduce the number of features of a new product.

• unnecessary

• not needed

• The client may realise that certain desirable features of the product do not fit within the overall budget.

The development of a design brief is the first stage of the development of a new product. Give a requirement that a client may provide as part of an initial design brief.

• budget

• look appealing

Name one stage of a product life cycle.

• optimise

• validate

• Extraction of raw material

• specifiaction

State which phase of the design cycle includes process planning.

• identify

• design

• optimise

• validate

Suggest one product that would be manufactured in each scale of production.

BATCH

• baked goods

• stadium

• F1 car

• prosthetic limb

Suggest one product that would be manufactured in each scale of production.

ONE OFF

• newspapers

• bread

• buildings

• standard components