Product Properties

People constantly spend sales and exchanges of goods among themselves. The most important properties of the product are its consumer and exchange value. That is, how much a particular commodity is useful to a person and whether it is able to become the equivalent of an exchange between people who own the goods.

Let us dwell briefly on the basic general characteristics of goods:

1. Physical properties of the product (mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical). Weight, size, weight, density and other parameters are important to know when counting food. For example, the category of eggs depends on the absolute mass. Selected eggs exceed 60 grams in size, and those belonging to category 2 should not be less than 44 g.

In building goods, the account is kept in running meters, tons, determining the area and diameter of the products. Heat resistance is necessary for cooking utensils in everyday life, and heat resistance is taken into account in production in industrial processes. When choosing cameras and video cameras take into account their optical characteristics.

2. Chemical properties (moisture resistance or solubility in water and other liquids). The chemical composition of products depends on their value. With the accumulation of even a small amount of heavy metals and other harmful impurities in them, they can become a source of poisoning of humans and animals. And with a lack of useful elements in food, normal processes in the body are disrupted. Consider the chemical properties of the product is necessary when cleaning fur, woolen and leather things, so as not to spoil their appearance.

Properties such as firmness, hardness and strength are important for biscuits, sugar refined sugar, pasta.

3. Biological properties determine how much the product is resistant to the effects of microorganisms, rodents and insects. To do this, it is necessary to store the goods correctly, to monitor the packaging and correctly select the packaging material and take into account the storage conditions. For example, the flour quickly deteriorates in a damp room, at high temperatures furniture can crack, lose its shine.

4. The physical and chemical properties of the product are important to consider when baking. After all, at a high temperature of 250 degrees and higher irreversible processes occur in fats, they are destroyed, and proteins are folded. So, for example, permeability and absorbency are taken into account in the manufacture of water filters and vacuum cleaners, when choosing shoes and clothes.

Consumer properties of the goods show how useful it is for its use. They, too, can be divided and described in more detail, considering the example of non-food and grocery goods. Anthropometric and physiological properties are evident in the size range of clothes, hats, shoes in different countries of the world for adults and children, adaptations for athletes and disabled people.

It is important to take into account hygienic indicators, because clothes, furniture, skin care items for a small child have characteristic features. Aesthetic taste, color perception, psychological factor and a person's nationality also influence the choice of goods for their consumption.

Taking into account the consumer properties of food products, one should pay attention to their environmental characteristics and safety in use. It is necessary to take into account the expiration dates, properly store food and cook meals from them.

You can familiarize yourself with the properties of any product by its specification. Many of them compose a detailed specification of the goods with indication of its name, price, unit of measure, grade or size, it is manufactured according to GOST or not.

The specification is a document that is attached to the supply contract and is signed by both parties: the buyer and the seller. In this document, the prices for the goods are coordinated, stipulate the terms of delivery, the terms, the admissibility of the deviation, the re-sorting, the packing requirements and the schedules of wholesale supplies.