An interacting group of items forming a unified whole.
What is a system
100
The creation of a product for introduction of a process for the first time.
What is an invention?
100
The method of using our knowledge to solve practical problems. Solutions to these problems satisfy peoples' wants and needs.
What is technology?
100
A heavy solid line used on a drawing to represent the outline of an object.
What is an object line?
100
Series of workstations at which individual steps in the assembly of a product are carried out as the product is moved along.
What is an assembly-line?
200
A system that is part of another larger system.
What is a subsystem?
200
Improves on or makes a significant contribution to an existing product process or service.
What is an innovation?
200
There are three of them.
What is the number of technological ages there are?
200
Light lines extending between use of a 2D drying used to align dimensions.
What is a projection line?
200
The use of technology to mass-produce things people need.
What is manufacturing?
300
The desired result of the system/
What is the input?
300
In manufacturing a working model of the proposed product.
What is a prototype?
300
People lived off the land. Many used tools and discoveries that had to do with growing crops. This era lasted in the 1700s.
What is the agricultural age.
300
Heavy unconnected line that represents an edge that is not directly visible.
What is a hidden line?
300
Something used to monitor systems output.
What is a sensor?
400
A system consisting of an input process output that cannot adjust to changing conditions.
What is an open loop system?
400
How comfortable something is to use.
What is ergonomics?
400
Society mood focus on machines factories and industry. America especially built large facilities and large machines to do things people used to do by hand.
What is the industrial age?
400
A pictorial drawing that shows three size of an object that has been rotated 30°.
What is an isometric drawing?
400
Producing production line components etc. as they are required rather than holding large stocks.
What is just-in-time manufacturing?
500
The system which can adjust to changing conditions through the use of a feedback loop which monitors output.
What is a closed loop system?
500
Product designed have an enjoyable appearance.
What is aesthetics?
500
The period from the 1950s through today in which inventions are based on electronics and computers.
What is the information age?
500
Representing a 3-D object into dimensions using three different views (front top and right side).
What is an orthographic drawing?
500
Drawing an object that is not true in its size but is correct in its proportions.