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Select a desk tidy from the two designs shown below. |
| SELECTED DESIGN:____________________________ |
| Name a suitable material for the manufacture of your selected desk tidy: |
| What properties does your selected material have, that make it suitable for use in the manufacture of the desk tidy? |
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| A prototype / one off, is to be manufactured. What is a prototype / one off? |
| Why is a prototype often manufactured before a new product goes on sale to the general public? |
| The desk tidy is to be manufactured as a batch of twenty. What is Batch Production? |
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| MORE INFORMATION ON SCALES OF PRODUCTION |
| Single Item / Prototype Production - Example 1 |
| Single Item / Prototype Production - Example 2 |
| Batch Production - Example 1 |
| Batch Production - Example 2 |
| Batch Production Exercise |
| Continuous Production - Example 1 |
| Continuous Production - Example 2 |
| Production Methods - Lesson Starter |
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