TITLE:
Implementation of Product Design Tools for the Development of an Automated Vegetable Chopper
AUTHORS:
Subrata Talapatra, Md. Shakil, Pritom Kumar Mondal, Md. Saiful Islam
KEYWORDS:
Automatic Machine; Chopper; Product Planning; Bill of Materials
JOURNAL NAME:
Technology and Investment,
Vol.5 No.1,
February
6,
2014
ABSTRACT:
In the era of industrialization, automatic machines
become an integral part of human life. These machines help to reduce the time
needed to do a specific task. Nowadays, human life becomes more competitive and
faster than the previous. Automation brought about by technology has saved human
effort and time to a large extent. Slicing vegetables are a risky and time-consuming
task in our busy life. This project is aimed at solving above stated problems
by introducing a special product named Automatic Vegetable Chopper. This
chopper is mainly designed to reduce human effort and make the job
of chopping vegetables much easier and faster. Its main features are fully
automated, easily portable, less power consumption and changeable stainless,
sharp blade, etc. This product is designed and established by following a
structured product design process and with the help of a board of design
engineers. Product planning, customer needs identifying, product specification, concept screening, concept scoring and bill
of materials are tools that mainly used to accomplish this task. Finally, this
paper also suggests various techniques and opportunities of product planning in
manufacturing industries as future recommendations.