Implementation of Product Design Tools for the Development of an Automated Vegetable Chopper

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.

Evaluation of techno-economic feasibility of the developed multipurpose vegetable slicer cum shredder

“…The present paper is a quantitative research in which the supporting data is gathered from different literatures based on the researches of many authors like Kuruba (2017) [7] , Shekhawat et al (2016) [9,10,11] , Ali et al (2019) [2] , Weiss (2006Weiss ( , 2005 [15,16] , Talapatra et al (2014) [12] , Chand et al (2013) [3] , Hoque et al (2017) [6] and others. The economic analysis was done with reference to a potato processing plant.…”

“…So, there was a need to design and develop a quick, safe, and easy to use way to slice the vegetables to increase productivity and cost effectiveness. Similarly, shredding is the process of pushing the food across or through a shredding surface to make long, narrow strips out of it (Talapatra et al 2014) [12] . The chopping of vegetables is often seen as a form of stress that is put on the vegetables or fruits thus wounding their cells and triggering injury-based responses by the plant cells.…”

Designing of Straw Chopper Machine for Compost Production

“…2. Design Criteria: Determining a chopping mechanism suitable to be applied to the chopper [7] , in the hope that the length of the chopping process result will meet SNI standard, namely 5-10 cm. and Studying the Rice Straw Characteristics: carrying out a measurement of the dimension, bulk density and moisture content of the rice straw as the basis for designing the chopper.…”

“…the belt (mm) Cp = distance between pulley center (mm) Dp = diameter of chopping cylinder's pulley (mm) dp = diameter of driving motor's pulley (mm)The mass of the belt can be calculated by the equation as follows[16]:(7) Note: mob = mass of the belt (kg) Ab = cross-sectional area of the belt (m 2 ) ρb = belt density (kg.m -3 ) Lb = length of the belt (m)…”