Strand iii - Construction Plan Template - Detailed prototype manufacture planning requirements

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Strand iii requires students to produce a construction plan for manufacturing a prototype before any manufacture begins. The plan must use a provided template and present a sequential order of operations from marking out materials through final assembly, including component breakdown and an added section for assembling the product. Required steps cover preparation, marking out with CAD/CAM files, cutting/machining, shaping, additive manufacturing, finishing, assembling, and joining. The plan must be third-party actionable with quality control and risk assessment, using no more than 10 words per cell.

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Construction plan template requirements

Sequential operations and required steps

Timing, format, and evidence rules

Table fields and word limit

Quality control and risk assessment expectations

Completing the plan and performance examples

Strand iii: The student produces a detailed plan for the manufacture of the prototype. An appropriate construction plan comprises a sequential order of operations to follow to make the prototype. The student should include details of the construction of the prototype, from marking out materials to final assembly. The student can separate the construction plan by each component, then include an additional section to detail the plan for assembling the product. Students should consider including the following steps. • Preparation (including collection of materials and creating templates/jigs) • Marking out (including the preparation of computer aided design/computer aided manufacture (CADCAM) files) • Cutting/machining • Shaping • Additive manufacturing • Finishing • Assembling • Joining The construction plan is a planning document. It must be written before the prototype is manufactured; it must not be written retrospectively and it must not be a diary or narrative. If the construction plan is written retrospectively, the work fails to address the lowest markband for this criterion. Diaries of manufacture in addition to the construction plan are not required and are not assessed as part of the assessment criterion. Students must avoid writing diaries of manufacture as, if submitted, they will use up both word and page allocations while not contributing to the evidence for assessment against the criterion. Students must use the construction plan template. This is found at the bottom of the left-hand menu bar in the TSM. | Processes | Equipment | Scheduling | Quality
control | Risk
assessment | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | - | | | | | | - | | | | | | - | | | | | | - | | | | | Table 6 Construction plan template Processes The student must give a descriptive name to the process they will carry out. Equipment The student must identify the equipment required to complete the process. Scheduling The student must estimate the time required for each process. The student should consider how this time is presented, for example, whether they work in minutes, hours, lessons or days. If working with lessons or days, there should be an indication of the actual time needed to complete the process. Quality control The student must state how they will ensure high quality in the process. The best work for this aspect references measuring equipment, tolerances, use of go/no go gauges, dry-fit assembly, and jigs and templates where the same component is required multiple times. Risk assessment The student must identify any risks associated with the processes or materials used, but must also state any preventative strategies that could be taken to reduce the risk. The student must aim to reduce any risk as effectively as possible. Together with the drawings developed for strand C ii, the construction plan should be in sufficient detail for a third party to follow to create the prototype. Completing the construction plan When completing the construction plan, students must not use extended writing to address this strand. There must be no more than 10 words per cell in the construction plan. If there are any cells in the construction plan table that exceed 10 words, all words in the table will contribute to the word count. Examples of performance The following examples are extracts from a full construction plan. To see examples of complete construction plans, please see the examples of student work included in the TSM. Example of high performance (7–9 markband) The student produces a detailed plan for the manufacture of the prototype. The three processes included below are an extract from a full construction plan for the prototype as described in the preamble to this section. The student completes a comprehensive and detailed plan for the manufacture of the prototype. Each process is detailed and refers to a bill of materials, meaning a third party can rela

FAQs

When must the construction plan be written, and can it be retrospective?

The construction plan must be written before the prototype is manufactured. It must not be written retrospectively.

What steps should the construction plan include for prototype manufacture?

It should cover preparation, marking out (including CAD/CAM files), cutting/machining, shaping, additive manufacturing, finishing, assembling, and joining.

What are the key requirements for the construction plan table (process, equipment, scheduling, quality control, risk assessment)?

Students must provide a descriptive process name, identify required equipment, estimate time using suitable units, state how quality will be ensured with measurable practices, and identify risks plus preventative mitigation strategies.

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