Gumball Machines
Rockets
Technical Drawings
The Ages
Potluck
100
A series of work stations at which individual steps in the assembly line of a product are carried out as the product is moving along.
What is an assembly line?
100
A system that is part of another, larger system.
What is a subsystem?
100
A heavy solid line used on a drawing to represent the outline of an object.
What is an object line?
100
The age in which people lived off the land. Many tools and discoveries had to do with growing crops.
What is the Agricultural Age?
100
The desired result of a system.
What is the input?
200
How comfortable something is to use.
What are ergonomics?
200
What a system produces.
What is the output?
200
Light lines extending between views of a 2D drawing used to align dimensions.
What is a projection line?
200
The age in which society moved to a focus on machines and factories.
What is the Industrial Age?
200
The action part of a system where resources are combined to produce an output.
What is a process?
300
Products designed to have an enjoyable appearance.
What are aesthetics?
300
An interacting group of items forming a unified whole.
What is a system?
300
A drawing of an object that is true in size but that is in the correct proportions.
What is a scaled drawing?
300
A period from the 1950s through today in which inventions are based on electronics.
What is the Information Age?
300
A heavy unconnected line that represents an edge that isn't directly visible.
What is a hidden line?
400
A working model of a proposed product.
What is a prototype?
400
A system which can adjust to changing conditions through the use of a feedback loop which monitors output.
What is a closed loop system?
400
A computer aided drafting or a computer aided design.
What is a CAD?
400
The method of using our knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is technology?
400
The use of technology to mass produce things people want or need.
What is manufacturing?
500
Technology related to the design and building of structures.
What is construction?
500
A system consisting o an input, proceses, and output that can't adjust to changing conditions.
What is an open loop system?
500
A pictorial drawing that shows 3 sides of an object that has been rotated 30 degrees.
What is an isometric drawing?
500
The Agricultural Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age.
What is the order of the ages?
500
Producing production-line components as they are required, rather than holding large stocks.
What is just-in-time manufacturing?
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