Starter quiz
- Obsolete products are:
- no longer produced or used ✓
- sold in supermarkets
- only work in the garden
- are popular products
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- Which of the following products are examples of obsolete products?
- cassettes ✓
- floppy discs ✓
- typewriters ✓
- electronic tablets
- remote controls
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- Phone and tablets can sometimes be accessed by data unique to the person that cannot be replicated by someone else. Which ones are examples of these?
- fingerprint ✓
- join the dots in a pattern
- four digit passcode
- facial scanning ✓
- voice recognition ✓
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- Match the positives and negatives for using a 3D printer:
- positive⇔can make intricate 3D parts ✓
- positive⇔can increase the speed of manufacture ✓
- negative⇔a specific skill set is required to operate it ✓
- negative⇔a specific skill set is required to design the product to send to it ✓
- positive⇔can make lots of varied prototypes ✓
- When we analyse a product, we look at the successful features and those features that need to be ...
- 'improved' ✓
- AI stands for :
- artificial intelligence ✓
- artificial integrated
- automated intelligence
- automated integrated
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Exit quiz
- Obsolete products refer to those products that are:
- no longer produced ✓
- are mass produced
- no longer useful ✓
- are used frequently
- no longer used ✓
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- Match the product/service to the emerging technology:
- biometrics⇔finger print recognition ✓
- biometrics⇔voice recognition technology ✓
- drones⇔search and rescue in natural disasters ✓
- drones⇔delivering blood samples to labs ✓
- AI⇔chatbot ✓
- AI⇔voice assist ✓
- Automation of quality control has enabled:
- more robust testing ✓
- human error to be reduced ✓
- checks to be carried out more safely ✓
- more manual jobs
- reduction in speed of testing
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- Sort the technologies from new technology to old technology.
- 1⇔streaming from internet
- 2⇔portable music player MP3
- 3⇔boombox cassettes, CDs
- 4⇔gramophone vinyl
- Match the impact of automation in manufacturing to an advantage or disadvantage:
- can work continuously⇔advantage ✓
- reduces human error⇔advantage ✓
- lowers labour costs⇔advantage ✓
- high set up costs⇔disadvantage ✓
- loss of jobs⇔disadvantage ✓
- upskilling⇔disadvantage ✓
Worksheet
Presentation
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- New and emerging technologies, such as automation have impacted on industrial manufacturing processes.
- New and emerging technologies have impacted on business and enterprise methods.
- AI, drones and biometrics are specific examples of new and emerging technologies.
Common misconception
New and emerging technologies have only positive impacts.
New and emerging technologies can make some products obsolete. It can also mean that many workers with limited skills lose their jobs to robots. These workers may find it difficult, or may not want to, retrain.
Keywords
Obsolete - no longer used or useful
Automation - use of technology to perform tasks
Human error - mistakes made by humans
Biometrics - uses unique body features, like fingerprints, for identification
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