Exam 1

SECTION A

Q1) Emerging technology: computer-aided design (CAD)

CAD allows designer to quickly explore designs in 3D from prior to constructing the product.
CAD allows the designer to modify/alter designs without having to redraw the product from
beginning.

Q2)

Environmental
Ethical factor Ecological factor Social factor
factor

 Secure  Consumer
 Energy use  Sustainability attitudes and
Workplace
 Renewable  Waste type opinions
 Safe Products
resources  Lifestyle trends

Q3) Design work is done both to specify the recipe in increasing detail and to verify that it does
in fact conform to requirements. As design work proceeds, certainty increases surrounding the
ability of the evolving product design (including its production process) to be the final product
recipe (i.e., technical performance risk decreases).

Q4)

Design factor Fundamental Applications

 Opacity
 Shape  Customer satisfactions
Human needs and wants
 Social and physical  Product quality
needs
 Health and safety  Legislation
Legal compliance
 Authority rules  Authority guidelines

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Q5)

Technical or functional planned

Style obsolescence
obsolescence
The new style will create a
desire to purchase the product
which will lead to increase New technology of producing the
Benefits for producer
sales and profit which will product
result in good image for the
company.
 Marketers also claim that
style changes relieve
peoples' boredom and
Satisfying changing consumer
Benefits for consumer allows for both self-
demands
expression and conformity
at the same time.
 New style
 Influence a company's
decisions about product
engineering. Therefore, the
company can use the least
expensive components that
satisfy product
The need for retooling which
lifetime projections.
Problem for producer means having to change or
 Planned obsolescence
purchase new equipment
stimulates demand by
encouraging purchasers to buy
again sooner if they still want
a functioning product. Built-in
obsolescence is in many
different products,

The style changes are designed The product cannot be repaired

Problem for consumer to make owners of the old due to components no longer being
model feel "out of date" made.

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 SECTION B

Q1) The ways to present initial creative ideas could be:

 Sketches and samples

 Prototypes and mockups

Q2) the area of research may include:

 Obsessed with the latest technology

 Observing people using existing products
 Talking to people about their needs (what they want, like and dislike)
 Investigation findings, including observational drawings, sketches and annotations
 Methods to support the recording of ideas, including visualization drawings (two- and
three dimensional), sketches and annotations
 Rendering techniques to show form, surface texture, light, shade and shadow

Q3)

Method of testing or
Ranking Evaluation criteria Justification checking against
finished product
 Survey
Design option To define& priorities of customer
 Customer
01 criteria needs.
interviews

Design planning and To determine critical part and  Machine testing

02 production process characteristics  In-line quality
Criteria control testing
It is important to test existing User trails
products to see whether what Expert appraisal
Final product
03 works and what doesn`t work methods of product
criteria
and what has been successful and evaluation.
not successful in the past
Q5) important components of work plan include:

 Detailed work plan showing tools, equipment and machinery

 A timeline
 Material list and costing
 Quality measures
 Risk assessment
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Q6) Risk assessment is a systematic process for identifying and evaluating events (i.e., possible
risks and opportunities) that could affect the production processes, positively or negatively.

To ensure that there is a formal process for hazard identification, risk assessment and control to
effectively manage workplace and safety hazards within the workplace.

Q7)

Method of promoting the features of your

List two of the 5 P`s of marketing
product
The price or pricing strategy could be altered to
Price
entice purchasers
The product could be changed to make it more
Product
appealing, innovative or up-to-date
The product could be placed in different/additional
Place stores to sell the product or particular placement
could be altered within a store

Q8) What must be used to explain the use and care requirements of product to the end-user

Product use and care instruction that will be printed or attached to the product

The visual instruction or attached are easy to attract the end-user to read this instruction

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