How Products are Made - Videotape Manufacture
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| Audience/Grade: | 10-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering Industrial Engineering Information Technology Manufacturing Engineering Materials Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Case Study |
| Media Type: |
Unknown |
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Organization:How Products Are Made |
| Description: | "Videotape is an integral component of the video technology that has profoundly impacted the media and home entertainment industries. First controlled by the television industry, videotape and video technology are now widely available to the private sector and have led to significant changes in the way that information is distributed and entertainment is created." Part of the How Products Are Made website that "explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams) Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc." |
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| Keywords: | video tape design for assembly design for manufacture manufacture of video tapes how video tapes are made history of technology |
| Is Component of: |
How Products Are Made |
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| Use of Resource: |
This searchable site is suited for a general audience and the descriptive language of this reference material is easy to understand and to follow. The site could be used as a dissection exercise in which students take apart video tapes to look at design for assembly and manufacture issues. |
| Difficulty: |
Medium |
| Interactivity Level: |
Low |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | November 2007 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Videotape.html |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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