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**Industry Study & Project Proposal Assignment** ** DRAFT **
 * Industrial Technology Stage 6 - Timber Products and Furniture Technologies **

Due Date: Monday Week 8 - Term 4, 29/11/2010 =Task:= To build knowledge and understanding about the subject one must study the industry to gain a global perspective and how it affects businesses and individuals. The changing world requires students to keep up to date with the modern world. The industry study task will allow students to be more relevant, significant, effective and efficient.

Your task is to research the broad study of the timber industry beyond the individual business. You are to look at the industry as a whole and investigation the current trend and news. Provide a summary and evaluation of your findings. Produce a report with headings provided below. Use the descriptive point to assist you in your research.

Conduct your research using a wide range of research methods, including books, magazine, Internet, library and encyclopaedia.

Industry / Focus Area: Timber Products and Furniture Technologies

All work needs to be produced by yourself. Plagiarising and coping information without permission will result in penalty of marks. Write everything in your own words.


 * Presentation:** Word processed on the computer and print out on A4 and staple together

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H1.1 investigates industry through the study of businesses in one focus area H1.2 identifies appropriate equipment, production and manufacturing techniques and describes the impact of new and developing technologies in industry H1.3 identifies important historical developments in the focus area industry H3.2 selects and applies appropriate research and problem-solving skills H7.1 explains the impact of the focus area industry on the social and physical environment
 * Outcomes**

=Industry Study Report Headings= · The significant developments that have occurred in the focus area industry and how they have impacted on the industry as a whole including manufacturing processes, materials and work practices. · Use knowledge of past developments to assess the value of new and emerging technologies.
 * 1. Historical developments**

· Organisation & management: identify examples of organisation and structure of businesses and how they operate. · Marketing, advertising, production, efficiency, restructuring and quality control: identify structural factors/considerations that affect these areas within these businesses.
 * 2. Structural considerations**

· Mechanisation, specialisation, mass production, automation, new and emerging technologies: describe and evaluate the significance technical factors/considerations have in the efficiency and viability of the industry.
 * 3. Technical considerations**

· Alternative resources (power, material, processes, limitations): recognise and evaluate alternatives to traditional industrial practice especially in relation to power and resource management. · Recycling & reusing, waste management, pollution, sustainable development, rehabilitation of commercial sites: describe and evaluate the approaches to the various environmental and sociological factors adopted by the industry. · Legislative requirements (local, state, federal, environmental studies): discuss and justify the ramifications of legislative requirements on the development and sustainability of the industry. · Location (transportation facilities, workforce, impact on surrounding population, resource availability, waste management): identify and describe how factors relating to location affect the viability and organisation of industry
 * 4. Environmental and sociological considerations**

· Industrial relations (EEO, unions, group negotiated contracts, individual contracts): identify government legislation and policies that ensure the employees' rights and job protection. · Career & training opportunities, specialisation & multiskilling, roles of industry personnel: describe the personnel issues that relate to industry.
 * 5. Personnel issues**

· Government legislation & industry requirements (standards, policing, prosecution): identify government legislation and industry requirements that ensure a safe working environment. · Risk assessment, safety training & human factors, workplace culture, OHS communication: discuss the importance of OHS in industry.
 * 6. Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)**