Manufacturing

Introduction

How are designs turned into products? What resources, materials and methods used and what set of activities that goes under the heading of 'manufacturing'? This course will introduce manufacturing as a system and will describe some of the many different ways of making products. We will illustrate how the required properties of the materials in a product influence the choice of manufacturing process used.

This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Design [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]