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The goal of this course is to provide students with the ability to make an educated selection of production processes within the design process to obtain desired concept, shape and functional outputs. Students will be introduced to the most common high and low volume manufacturing processes, realize their limitations, exploit their potential, understand the moulds involved, and recognize how the products that surround us in our daily lives are created. Students will actively undertake research, detailed design assignments and workshop tasks set in the context of the design process and manufacturing processes.
By the end of the course students will be able to: 1. Select appropriate production processes & materials to obtain a desired concept, design or functionality.2. Research, recognize, analyze and identify which production processes lie behind the creation of many products.3. Show understanding and confidence in designing products according to and exploiting some of the most common industrial production techniques.4. Gain an understanding of how moulds create products and their common traits across numerous production processes.5. Understand how mass market industrial production processes relate to lower volume ‘makers and own-production’ interpretations.6. Competently use a Formech Vacuum forming machine and build moulds for thermoforming.
PROD112
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Barro De Gast
# Assignments & Assessments Learning Outcomes Submission Due date Individual/ group Weight1 Lasercutting & Line-bending project 2,3,6 Printed Folio & Prototype Week 4 group 12%2 Extrusion project 2,3 Online Folio Week 6 group 12%3 SandCasting exercise 4 Online Folio Week 8 individual 12%4 Injection Moulding project 2,3 Online Folio Week 10 group 12%5 Process combination project 1,2,3 Online Folio Week 12 group 12%6 Lecture Content 1,4,5 Online Exam Wk14/15 individual 40% Total 52/48 100%
Domestic fee $1,059.00
International fee $6,000.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see School of Product Design .