Contents ............................................................................................................... .................................................. 2 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................
2.0 INTRODUCTION ............................................................... ............................................................................................................................ ............................................................. 3 2.1 Research Methodology ............................................................... ................................................................................................................. .................................................. 4 ......................................................................................................................... ............................................................. 4 2.1.1 Questionnaire ............................................................ ................................................................................................................................. ............................................................ 4 2.1.2 Research ..................................................................... ............................................................................................... ...................................... 5 3.0 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT .........................................................
3.1 DEFINITIONS .............................................................................................................................. ............................................................................................................................. 5 3.2 CLASSIFICATION OF NEW DEVELOPMENT PROCESS ..................................................... 5 ......................................................................... ................ 6 3.3 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS .........................................................
3.3.1 Research and Development .................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... 6 3.3.2 Product Design and Features .................................................................................................. ................................................................................................. 7 ..................................................................................................................... ............................................................. 8 3.3.3 Concept Testing ........................................................ ...................................................................................................................... ............................................................. 9 3.3.4 Build Prototype .........................................................
3.3.5 Test Marketing .......................................................... ..................................................................................................................... ........................................................... 11 4.0 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................... .............................................................................................................................. 13 ............................................................................................................................... .......................................................... 14 5.0 REFERENCES .....................................................................
1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report is about new product development of Portable Eco Generator. Based on the survey that has been conducted, out of 30 people regardless of the gender 83.3% out of the 100 like to involve in extreme sports that involve in jungle activities. Thus, it shown that jungle activities are one of the most famous activiti es to do during their leisure times. For this modern era, electronic gadget is a must for a lot of people. This is because it makes daily activity to be easier to do. Hence, we can conclude that the people will carry electronic gadget while doing the jungle activities because it can help them in many ways such as the walkie talkie; to communicate with each other, torchlight; to give extra vision during night and mobile phone; to contact people during emergency. But, the electronic gadgets have a limited battery life span due to its different battery capacity size. Furthermore, the jungle does not have an electrical supply to recharge the electronic gadget. For this reason, the idea of Portable Eco Generator fits the case. The function of the Portable Eco Generator is to generate electricity to recharge the electronic device using the nature such as the sun and the river. The solar energy from the sun can be used to recharge the electronic on daylight while the flow of the river can recharge the electronic on both daylight and night time. A lot of generator is big in size so we aim to develop a small size and easy to carry or portable generator. Besides, we also consider the materials use to ensure sturdy and long-life span of the product. The shape and functions of the product also will be design as simple for the customer usage and understanding yet the aesthetic value will be prioritized. The design of the product is sketch by hand drawing and CATIA software.
2.0 INTRODUCTION Based on the survey we have done, there are a l ot of people that enjoy the activities on the jungle. With the increasing electronic gadgets produce to help people in many ways, it is not a surprised that a lot of people will carry at least one electronic gadget or device into the jungle with them. According to typical knowledge on electronic device, electronic device need an electrical source to power them, hence there is battery to supply the electrical energy. The battery has its own electrical capacity and differ according to each device. When the electrical runs out, the device cannot be use. Thus, the ideas of Portable Eco Generator fit the case. The generator can produce electrical power to recharge the electronic device. Furthermore, this Portable Eco Generator uses the nature to produce the electrical energy needed. The examples of the nature are the sun and the river. Both can easily find in the jungle, so the product can easily be use in any situation. This product is very useful and suitable for people who love to do jungle activities, yet it can still be use outside of the jungle due to the solar panel attach to it. Jungle trekker often cannot use their electronic device because of their battery has run out. Hence, we develop this product to counter the problem. This product also portable due to its small size and ergonomic structure. From our research, a regular generator has a big size and require a power source to operate it so with our product, the power source that they need to find is the solar energy from the sun and the flow of water at the river. They also don’t have to think about the type of device that can be used for the product because our product can connect to various of devices. Our product uses the concept of solar energy system and the hydroelectric generator system.
F igure 1: Concept of solar energy system and hydroelectri c generator
2.1 Research Methodology The products concept and ideas was generated by the concept of generator and power bank. For this new product development, we need to gain more data about the customer needs and how far can the product go in the market. There are several methods
to receive the information needed. The methods are as follow:
2.1.1 Questionnaire
For the questionnaire section, there are several aspects that we ask to the respondent. Some of the question are about whether they know about the product, whether the product can be sell and the range of price for the product. We used google doc as our method to run the questionnaire. Our target respondent are people who enjoys doing jungle activities.
2.1.2 Research
For the research section, we used a typical way which is the internet to get the information needed for our product. The function of generator and power bank are one of the main data that we search.
3.0 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 3.1 DEFINITIONS This new product which is Portable Eco Generator is created to all persons who loves extreme sports which involving jungle or nature activities since we decide to design this product that can be used in emergency situation such as malfunction of various types of electronic devices due to no electrical sources to charge all the devices. We take design inspiration from the current product like power bank which had been develop since 2011. In design terms, the conceptual design is defined as a phase in the evolution of product design where alternative design concepts are generated, evaluated and selected for further development. Similar like any other product, initially the design process is the triggered by act of creative thinking, either by the normal process of recognizing the needs or naturally incoming ideas.
3.2 CLASSIFICATION OF NEW DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Our new product development classification is under improvements and revisions to the existing products. In this product, we put feature that more advantages by made some modifications to the current product in their functions quality so the optimum effectiveness is achieved. We also offer the term portability in this new product by making this product smaller as we can without affect the quality and the effectiveness. This will increase the portability of the product which we can reduced the used space for the consumer. The price of our product is quite low but it has the good quality that makes it affordable to buy for customers.
3.3 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 3.3.1 Research and Development Research and Development (R&D) process refers to organized efforts that a directed towards discovering new knowledge, product and process. The innovation process also involved in the R&D of a new product. The improvisation is due to the historical or preliminary data. Therefore, research and development are crucial step in the new development process. There are many importance of the research and development process such as its help the companies forecasted the market changes and able to respond quickly and effectively. Next, it is also helps the companies to predict the thoughts and reaction of the customers towards the new technology that will be launch. In terms of idea generation, which is creating or construct idea for developing a new product can be primarily achieve by recognizing the concept. The next step of process will secure that the ideas are tested for their ability to work successfully, in the meantime all the starting idea is a good idea. Ideas can or will come from many different ways. This includes both the creation of an entirely new idea or else by modifications of an existing product. These transition or new introductions may be focusing a newly consumer needs in the market. At this first stage, a group of development team will visualize the concept idea and work on brainstorming into more detailed idea for products. It is crucial to engage concrete analysis to find out current market trends and possible solutions, tolerating towards consumer needs and identify range of opportunity.
3.3.2 Product Design and Features During the conceptual design process, we take design inspiration from the existing power bank, conventional solar panel and the water turbine at the dam. Then we start to aim to design portable, simple, sturdy and easy to carry the device. Beside that, we are also always considering the technical and economic criteria such as functionality, working principle, aesthetic value, ergonomics and the most important is the safety of the product. In our new product development of Portable Eco Generator, the reason we design this product with smaller as we can with sturdy body because we want to make this product more portable that can easily carry by the customer which loves the extreme sports that involving the jungle and nature activities likes the hikers. Many hikers will refuse to carry the diesel electric generator due to difficult to carry large and heavy item. This will make their activities more difficult and less enjoyable feeling. Here is brief information about the Portable Eco Generator. They come in with cubic shape of housing with 15 cm length, 15 cm width and also 15 cm height. With the specific dimensions stated, the product has compact all the components as much smaller as we can compare to the existed product out there. This product has several components such as two adjustable solar panel which we can adjust the angle of the solar panel according to the direction of the sun rays for better performance. The function of the solar panel is basically to convert the energy from the sun rays into electrical energy. Besides that, this product also has a small water turbine that attached to the housing by the flexible wire. Inside the housing, there have a compartment to store about 10 meters of flexible wire. In order to use it, we need to pull out the wire according to the suitable condition and put the water turbine inside the water that has strong hydro power. The function of water turbine is basically to convert the energy from the strong hydro energy into electrical energy. Next components are inside the housing also has a rechargeable battery with huge capacity which is about 50000 mAh. With this huge capacity,
basically we can charge any various types of devices with no problem at all. There are three inputs to charge the battery which is the energy from sun rays, energy from hydroelectricity and also, we can charge it directly by using standard micro USB charger. As comparison, standard power bank cannot be recharged when there is no electrical energy inside the jungle. With this Portable Eco Generator, basically we can recharge the product by using another two input which is energy from sun rays and hydroelectricity. For the output, this product has two standard plug socket which can supply the stored electrical energy to any various types of devices. Lastly, there are battery indicator that place below from the standard plug socket. This battery indicator will show the amount of energy store inside the rechargeable battery. All these components are made by very high-quality materials in order to function well.
3.3.3 Concept Testing After having some brainstorming sessions, we managed to get some conceptual designs. However, after having discussion and analyse each one of them, we finalize our new product design as below.
Figure 2: Conceptual Design
3.3.4 Build Prototype
2 Solar Panel
Flexible Wire
2 Plug Socket
Water Turbine Battery Indicator
Figure 3: Isometric View of The Product
Figure 4: Orthographic Projections of The Product
3.3.5 Test Marketing For this new product development which is we developed the Portable Eco Generator, we made some market survey to ask opinion about our new product. This survey had been made by using Google Form with 30 total responses. The summary of this survey is shown below.
4.0 CONCLUSION To conclude our findings, we can refer to the initial objective plan of this project, which is to create a base design for a portable eco generator; basically, the objective has been achieved. In terms of design contents, the designer has managed to produce a base design which is practical, applicable and appropriate to use. Other design basic such as the ergonomic fixing method, selection of reliable and affordable material and also other factors has also been considered throughout the design project for the benefit of the end use rs. Based on our market survey that we have conducted by using google form, there are a lot of feedbacks we get. The positive feedbacks are more than the negative feedback we get from the respondent. From the feedback we can assume that majority of the respondent are in needs of the product to be available on the market. The product is also feasible to fabricate as it material cost are within range of affordable prices. From the market survey, we also generate about 70% of respondent reply that they use electrical devices when they doing the jungle activities. About 46.7% of the respondents say yes and maybe to buy our product to help them with the problem of recharging their electrical devices during their activities in the jungle. This shown that our product are in high demand and will be purchased by the respondent if the product is being able on the market place.
5.0 REFERENCES 1. Joseph E. Shingley, L.D.M., Mechanical Engineering Design. 1983:McGraw-Hill International Book Company. 2. Atila Ertas, J.C.J., The Engineering design Process. 1993.
PORTABLE ECO GENERATOR
Faculty
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Faculty Of Mechanical Engineering
Program
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Mechanical Engineering
Program Code
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EM220
Course
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Entrepreneurship
Course Code
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ENT600
Semester
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7
Group Name
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Group 6
Group Members
:
Nazreen Bin Abdul Rahman (2014264704) Muhammad Nur Haziq Bin Mohd Aris (2014437692) Muhammad Ilmanuddin Bin Ibrahim (2014483696)
Submitted to Prof. Madya Hajah Rahimah
