Graphics - Systems and Industry

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M A N U F A C T U R I N G S Y S T E M I X
R B G U W T Y F L D I N C K O U K D X Q M
A M O Y J M I O M O N P E A Y I F B X C U
A D V A N T A G E S O F C A D C A M B C I
C O D F K T B N Q G R U Q L A M P W R K C
J U S T I N T I M E P R O D U C T I O N T
B F L D I G I T A L P R I N T I N G P O U
C O N S O N U S I N G I C T H O U D O M C
Q U A L I T Y C O N T R O L C H E C K S V
V S D L H I U A R A K V J G O W G R O L B
K K I N T E G R A T E D C I R C U I T S G
A W M N M E C H A N I S M S P O P U P S C
X Q E J Q N O F K X D H X S X B F V I N S
D V V W P E L V S X Y S B U B N H R M T E
F R U Q U A L I T Y A S S U R A N C E A B
F T F L O B A T C H P R O D U C T I O N N
V H J D U Y E R J U V M G O V C Y A E X U
I B C A E O X J O C K E L P H R B L E S B
D R Y L T A A I S B S J C A N L Q C E N U
X M C E J W P O Q W D B W K J A M P U U C
E F K P H F Q M H R I T C Y W E X T E C O

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  • Easy to develop ideas. Produce very realistic designs quickly. Machined at high speed. High quality and more reliable finished product (no human error). Mass produce complicated products. Can save lots of money as labour costs are lower. (10, 2, 6)
  • Electrical circuits - often complicated but tiny. Musical greetings cards use ICs to play tunes. Flashing badges use ICs to light it up when turned on. Used in products to attract attention and improve appearance. (10, 8)
  • Expensive to keep investing in the most efficient/latest tech. Takes time and money to retrain staff. May be job lesses as computers replace people. Continued use of computers can cause health problems. (4, 2, 5, 3)
  • Gets materials and components delivered as they're needed and uses as soon as delivered (saves on storage space, saves money, unsold finished products don't pile up). But relies on materials being on time and fault free. (4, 2, 4, 10)
  • Input - Materials and tools you start with. Process - what happens to input to change it into an output so cutting, printing, etc. Output - Result of the system = the finished product. (13, 6)
  • Make a specific quantity of a product. Used for leaflets and posters. Machinery and workforce have to be flexible. Between batches when machinery is being set up differently is called down time. Backlog of half-made products, not as efficient as mass (5, 10)
  • Pop ups - moves as you open a page, makes books/cards more interesting, known as V-Fold mechanism. Mechanisms used to make several types of motion. (10, 3, 3)
  • These help to: Conform to the spec, do the job it's designed to do, meet the standards set by relevant institutions, keep customer happy, be manufactured consistently (7, 7, 6)
  • This involves having: Good staff training, procedures for checking the quality of materials, systems for keeping machinery maintained, quality control checks throughout the process, ensures manufacturers don't make loads of mistakes (7, 9)
  • Uses inkjet and laser printers. No set up costs (apart from cartridges and printer), expensive per sheet but for short runs (few hundred) it's cheaper than setting up plates, used for posters, flyers etc (7, 8)

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