What is an interacting group of items forming a unified whole?
What is a system
100
How comfortable something is to use
What is ergonomics
100
Method of using our knowledge to solve practical problems. Solutions to these problems satisfy people's wants and needs.
What is technology
100
Drawing of an object that is not true size but is in the correct proportions.
What is Scale drawing
100
Technology related to the design and building of structures.
What is construction
200
The desired result of a system
What is Input
200
Products designed to have an enjoyable appearance
What is aethestics
200
People lived off the land. Many tools and discoveries had to do with growing crops, lasting in the 1700s.
What is Agricultural Era
200
A heavy, solid line used on a drawing to represent the outline of an object.
What is object line
200
the creation of a product or introduction of a process for the first time
What is invention
300
A system which can adjust to changing conditions through the use of a feedback loop which monitors output.
What is a closed loop system
300
In manufacturing, a full scale working model
What is a prototype
300
Period from the 1950s to today in which inventions are based on electronics and computers.
What is information age
300
Light lines extending between views of a 2D drawing used to align dimensions.
What is projection line
300
Producing production line components, etc, as they are required, rather than holding large stocks
What is Just-In-Time-Manufacturing
400
Used to monitor a system's output
What is a sensor
400
Series of workstations at which individual steps in the assembly of a product are carried out as the product is moved along
What is Assembly Line
400
Society moved to a focus on machines, factories, and industry. Populations in northern America, especially, built large machines to do things people used to do by hand.
What is Industrial Age
400
A pictorial drawing that shows 3 sides of an object that has been rotated 30 degrees.
What is Isometric Drawing
400
Improves or makes a significant contribution to an existing product, process, or service
What is innovation
500
The part of a closed loop system that provides control or measurement monitoring, comparing and adjustment output
What is a feedback loop
500
Parts that are identical so that they will fit into any assembly of the same type
What is interchangable parts
500
Use of technology to mass produce things people want or need.
What is Manufacturing
500
Computer aided drafting or computer aided things
What is CAD
500
Representing a three dimensional object in 2 dimensions using 3 different views