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Design and Applied Technology (Secondary 4-6)

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Term Description

Original

Equipment

Manufacturer

(OEM)

A situation in which one company purchases a manufactured product

from another company and resells the product as its own, usually as a

part of a larger product it sells. OEM is the company that originally

manufactured the product.

Patent It protects the invention by giving the patent owner a legal right to

prevent others from manufacturing, using, selling or importing the

patented invention.

Piezoelectric The ability of some materials (notably crystals and certain ceramics) to

generate an electric potential in response to applied mechanical stress.

This may take the form of a separation of electric charge across the

crystal lattice.

Product The good (economics and accounting) or service which can be bought

and sold.

Promotion It is one of the four key aspects of the marketing mix. The other three

elements are product management, pricing, and distribution. Promotion

involves disseminating information about a product, product line, brand,

or company.

Purchase The act of getting, buying or obtaining anything

Quality Quality in everyday life and business, engineering and manufacturing

has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority, superiority or

usefulness of something.

Rapid prototype

(RP)

The automatic construction of physical objects using solid freeform

fabrication.

Recall It refers to the collection of products that have been distributed to the

market already.

Recyclable

material

It may originate from a wide range of sources including the home and

industry. They include glass, paper, aluminium, asphalt, iron, textiles

and plastics. Recycling is the reprocessing of materials into new

products. Recycling generally prevents the waste of potentially useful

materials, reduces the consumption of raw materials and reduces energy

usage, and hence greenhouse gas emissions, compared to virgin

production.

Registered

Design

Designs can be registered for a wide range of products including

computers, telephones, textiles, jewellery and watches. Registered

designs protect only the appearance of products and not the way to

which the product relating to the design works, for periods of 5 to 25

years.

Regulation A legal restriction promulgated by government administrative agencies

through rulemaking supported by a threat of sanction or a fine.

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