Year 12 · VCE / Product Design and Technologies
Flashcards and recall.
Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
Try this with Product Design and Technologies
- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
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Recall topics
- One-off production
- Low-volume (batch) production
- High-volume (mass) production
- Continuous production
- How unit cost changes with production scale
- Why a jig suits batch production
- Technology typical of one-off production
- Technology typical of high-volume production
- Productivity
- Viability of a technology in a context
- Lean manufacturing
- The wastes targeted by lean manufacturing
- Just-in-time (JIT)
- Kaizen
- Error-proofing (poka-yoke)
- Flexible and responsive manufacturing
- Mass customisation
- Relationship between lean and flexible manufacturing
- Make to order versus make to stock
- The 6Rs
- Rethink (6Rs)
- Refuse (6Rs)
- Reduce (6Rs)
- Reuse (6Rs)
- Recycle (6Rs)
- Repair (6Rs)
- Circular economy
- Linear economy
- Loops in the circular economy (highest to lowest value)
- Product-as-a-service
- Cradle-to-cradle approach
- Cradle-to-grave
- Biological nutrient versus technical nutrient
- Design for Disassembly (DfD)
- DfD features to name in an exam
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
- Product stewardship in Australia
- Lifecycle assessment (LCA)
- Stages of a lifecycle assessment
- Why lifecycle assessment can surprise designers
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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