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Processes

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Principle

Defining the Market Market Segments The Marketing Mix Needs Wants Technology Push/Market Pul Marketing or Selling Benefits of Product Design Product Planning Product Life Cycle Product Life Analysis Planned Obsolescence Redundancy Fashion and Style Safety Technological Opportunity Fitness for Purpose Social Responsibilities Product Evolution Product Types Miniaturisation Systems Diagrams Sustainable Design

Practice

Design for Manufacture Choosing a Material Plastics Thermosetting Plastic Thermoplastics Testing Plastics Identifying and Naming Plastics Composite Materials Injection Moulding Compression Moulding Extrusion Vacuum Forming <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Blow Moulding <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Rotational Moulding <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Mould Making <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Metals <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Ferrous Metals <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Non-Ferrous Metals <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Die Casting <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Sand Casting Press Forming Piercing and Blanking Drop Forging Wood Softwood Hardwood Manufactured Boards Adhesives Joining Materials Recycling Materials The Cost of Production Types of Production Manufacturing Systems Just in Time Production Sequential and Concurrent Engineering CAD (Computer Aided Design) CAM (Computer Aided Manufacture) CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacture) Rapid Prototyping British Standards Drawing Convention

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