Specification points
WJEC A Level Design and Technology: Product Design A602QS
85 points in 2 topics, with WJEC's codes and titles.
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PD Product design: technical principles
- PD.1 Designing and innovation
- PD.1(a) Principles of designing
- PD.1(b) Research techniques
- PD.1(c) Analysis of the problem
- PD.1(d) Problem solving strategies
- PD.1(e) Quantitative and qualitative testing
- PD.1(f) Ergonomics and anthropometrics
- PD.1(g) Computer systems for designing
- PD.1(h) Innovation
- PD.1(i) Issues to consider when designing
- PD.1(j) Researching, planning and evaluating
- PD.1(k) Generating and developing ideas
- PD.1(l) Developing proposals
- PD.1(m) Detail design
- PD.1(n) Communicating ideas and information
- PD.2 Materials and components
- PD.2(a) Materials, components and their potential application
- PD.2(b) Working characteristics of materials: physical, chemical and composite
- PD.2(c) Methods of creating materials with specific properties
- PD.2(d) Awareness of modern material technology
- PD.2(e) The choice of materials for specific service requirements
- PD.2(f) The choice of finishes for specific service requirements
- PD.2(g) Components and their potential application
- PD.2(h) Safe working practices, including identifying hazards and making risk assessments
- PD.2(i) Working with materials and components
- PD.3 Processes
- PD.3(a) Hand methods of preparing, processing and manipulating materials
- PD.3(b) Machine methods of preparing, processing and manipulating materials
- PD.3(c) Combining/forming materials to enhance their properties
- PD.3(d) Computer aided manufacture
- PD.3(e) Working with tools and equipment
- PD.3(f) Working with materials, components and technologies
- PD.4 Industrial and commercial practice
- PD.4(a) The main features of manufacturing industry, including empl oyment and commercial practices
- PD.4(b) Manufacturing systems, including one off, batch, high volume, bought-in parts
- PD.4(c) Stages of production
- PD.4(d) Detailed manufacturing methods, when preparing, combining, manipulating or processing materials
- PD.4(e) Management systems for production, quality assurance, organisation of equipment and people
- PD.4(f) Safe working practices, including identifying hazards and making risk assessments
- PD.4(g) Industrial methodology and approaches
- PD.5 Product analysis and systems
- PD.5(a) Design and production of manufactured products
- PD.5(b) Form and function of different products
- PD.5(c) Trends, styles and influences on products
- PD.5(d) Intellectual Property and International Standards
- PD.5(e) Systems and sub-systems for manufacturing and management
- PD.5(f) Control systems: loops, feedback and control functions
- PD.5(g) Use of ICT by industry
- PD.5(h) Issues to consider when designing
- PD.5(i) Systems Analysis
- PD.5(j) ICT in planning
- PD.5(k) ICT in designing and making
- PD.6 Human responsibility
- PD.6(a) Service to the customer, including legal requirements, availability of resources
- PD.6(b) Regulatory and legislative frameworks for product design
- PD.6(c) Standard risk assessment procedures in product design
- PD.6(d) Values implicit in product design
- PD.6(e) Forms of energy used by industry
- PD.6(f) Issues and responsibilities when designing
- PD.6(g) Quality of the product
- PD.6(h) Quality in terms of the human process of designing and making
- PD.7 Public interaction – marketing and research
- PD.7(a) Innovation in the market
- PD.7(b) Researching the market
- PD.7(c) Selling the product
- PD.7(d) Diffusion of products
- PD.7(e) Clarify tasks, by analysing and researching market/client needs: producing quantifiable performance specifications
- PD.7(f) Measurements to determine product marketability
- PD.7(g) Evaluating products
DM Designing and making principles
- DM.1 User-centred design
- DM.2 Design theory and key historic movements
- DM.3 Product development: design, make and evaluate
- DM.4 Appraising technological developments
- DM.5 Critical analysis and iterative design
- DM.6 Specialist tools, techniques, processes and machinery
- DM.7 Accuracy and precision in making
- DM.8 Evaluating prototypes with users and clients
- DM.9 Strategies to explore, create and evaluate design ideas
- DM.10 Approaches to project management
- DM.11 Design for manufacture
- DM.12 Environmental factors in disposal and sustainability
- DM.13 Standards in design tasks
- DM.14 The stages of a product life cycle