Product design DT revision

Continuous Improvement

Ongoing improvement of products as result of new tech or customer feedback.

Cooperative

businesses owned by it’s employees and members

Crowd funding

Fund a project by raising money from members of the public.

Infinite/finite

Items that will last forever/items that will eventually run out.

Life Cycle assessment

Process of evaluating effects that a product has on environment over its entire life.

Technology push

Innovation driven by new technological advances, where inventions are pushed into the market before theres a strong consumer demand for them.

Market Pull

When a new product comes from a need identified by the customers.

Just In Time/LEAN

Making products where a company receives materials/parts as close as possible to when they are needed.

Nesting

Process of laying out multiple parts on a single sheet as close as possible - reducing waste.

Ergonomics

To create an item that gives the end user a comfortable stress-free experience.

Anthropometrics

Science of looking at measurements of people’s bodies.

6 R’s

Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair

Quality control

System of maintaining standards in manufactured products by testing a sample of a product.