Optimization Trade-off Quality Control
Involves a choice or exchange for one quality over another.
What is Trade-Off?
The most important resource for all technological activity
What are people?
Limitations on a design.
What is a constraint?
The building blocks of technology.
What is a system?
Technology of producing, altering, and combining materials.
What is Materials Technology?
Something that is used for a specific design purpose to enhance or to make small gains in designable purposes.
What is optimization?
Any instrument that is the working part of a power-driven machine.
What is a tool?
The desired elements and features of a product or system.
What is criteria?
The resources used by a system.
What is an input?
Technology of fluid, either gas or liquid to apply force or to transport.
What is fluid technology?
A planned process to ensure that a product, service, or system meets established criteria.
What is Quality Control?
Data and facts that have been organized and communicated in a coherent and meaningful.
What is information?
The size, color, shape, etc
What is Criterion?
The result of a system
What is an output?
Technology of putting together mechanical parts to produce, control and transmit motion.
What is mechanical technology?
The second-best alternative (or the value of that alternative) that must be given up when scarce resources are used for one purpose instead of another.
What is opportunity cost?
A combination of materials, devices, structures, information, and energy working together to solve problems and extend human capabilities.
What is a technology system?
Things that are used to create designs across all technologies and to evaluate designs.
What are design principles?
The actions taken to use the inputs.
What are processes?
Technology of producing, storing, controlling, transmitting and getting work from heat energy.
What is Thermal Technology?
A family of standards for quality management systems.
What is ISO 9000?
Human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products and systems.
What are processes?
Involves all your senses - vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell - and your emotions
What are Aesthetics?
Adjustments made to the processes to improve the outputs.
What is feedback?
Technology of putting mechanical parts and materials together to create supports, containers, shelters, connectors and functional shapes.
What is structural technology?