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Industrial TechnologyTimber Products and FurnitureIndustries

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General Instructions

Reading time 5 minutes Working time hours Write using black or blue pen Draw diagrams using pencil

Board-approved calculators maybe used Write your Centre Number and

Student Number at the top of this page and pages 5, 9, 13and 17

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Pages 212

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Attempt Questions 13 Allow about 55 minutes for this section

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Attempt Questions 45 Allow about 35 minutes for this section

Section II

Section I


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Section I

60 marksAttempt Questions 13Allow about 55 minutes for this section

Answer the questions in the spaces provided.

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IND-TECH is a company in the timber products and furniture industry seeking toincrease its market share by establishing an overseas facility.

Question 1 (20 marks)

(a) Identify TWO sources of finance that IND-TECH might use to fund theestablishment of the overseas facility.

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(b) How can IND-TECH locate and evaluate emerging technology?

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Question 1 (continued)

(c) Explain issues that may have influenced IND-TECHs decision to establish theoverseas facility.

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(d) How could the introduction of the new facility affect the marketability of

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(e) IND-TECH has identified quality control as a potential area of concern whenoverseas operations commence.

Evaluate strategies that can be implemented to establish and monitor therequired standard of quality.

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Industrial TechnologyTimber Products and FurnitureIndustriesSection I (continued)

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(a) Outline TWO issues that may be included in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

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(b) Why is it important to have an effective occupational health and safety (OHS)policy in place when the new facility is established?

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(c) How could IND-TECH ensure that equal employment opportunity (EEO)principles are followed in the recruitment of new staff?

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(d) Evaluate a range of computing applications that could be used to maintaincommunication between the local facility and the overseas facility.

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(e) IND-TECH proposes to relocate some employees to the overseas facility toassist in setting it up and training staff.

Analyse this proposal from the perspective of both IND-TECH and theemployees who would be relocating.

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Industrial TechnologyTimber Products and FurnitureIndustriesSection I (continued)


(a) Name TWO software applications that can be used to graph production costs.

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Use the following information to answer part (b).

The graph shows IND-TECHs past and predicted annual local production costs.

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(b) (i) Graph the predicted annual overseas production costs on the grid on theprevious page.

(ii) When should overseas production costs match local production costs?

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(iii) Describe the trends in the graphs for local and overseas production costs.

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(iv) Outline factors IND-TECH would need to consider when estimatingpredicted production costs.

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(c) IND-TECH intends to produce an operations manual for the overseas facilityusing a combination of text, graphics, photographs and charts.

Explain how the different forms of presenting the information would support thepurpose of the operations manual.

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Section II

40 marksAttempt Questions 45Allow about 35 minutes for this section

Answer the questions in the spaces provided.


IND-TECH is to produce the table shown for the quality furniture market.

(a) Justify your choice of a suitable timber for the table.

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(b) Describe an industrial process that could be used to produce a decorative edgeon the tabletop.

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(c) Name and describe the application of a suitable industrial product that can beused to achieve a high quality finish on the table.

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(d) The table legs are marked out and cut from solid timber. TWO methods areshown.

Outline an advantage and disadvantage of each method.

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(e) Timbers can be sourced from rainforests and old growth forests.

Discuss the implications of this practice and justify the use of an alternativesource of supply.

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IND-TECH is to produce a step stool.

(a) Why have the legs of the step stool shown been angled out?

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(b) Name a suitable joint that could be used to attach the rails to the legs. Draw andlabel a sketch of this joint.

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(c) Describe, with the aid of sketches, a method of cutting the hand grip into the topof the stool.

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(d) Describe methods of providing a non-slip surface on the step and top of thestool.

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(e) IND-TECH is considering mass-producing the stool as a flat pack.

Describe, with the aid of sketches, a manufacturing and assembly process thatcould be used by IND-TECH.

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