Useful links to websites
Materials and components:
- Properties of materials
- Paper and card
- Timber (wood)
- Manufactured boards
- Ferrous and non-ferrous
- Plastics
- Modern and smart materials
- Manipulating and combining materials to change their properties (e.g. alloys)
- Composite materials
- Manipulating and combining materials to change their properties (e.g. alloys) 2
Design and market influences:
- Evolution of ideas
- Product design
- Product analysis
- Presenting ideas through sketches
- Packaging and the power and techniques of marketing
- Human factors
- Quality control and assurance
- Ethical and safety issues
- Cultural issues when designing 1
- Cultural issues when designing 2
- Sustainability
- Consumer issues
Processes and manufacture:
- Industrial and commercial practice 1 Flow charts and planning methods/One-off, batch, mass, JIT and continuous production
- Industrial and commercial practice 2
- Production methods - Marking out, cutting and shaping of materials
- Manufacturing systems - Manufacturing systems and subsystems (e.g. the organisation of people, logistics, communication techniques, disposal and recycling of waste materials)
- ICT in design - CAD/CAM, CNC, video conferencing, stock control
- Quality control