Product design

Class Assignment 2

Purna chandu D
2020HT79545

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Product: Smart water bottle

Product description: Drinking water bottle with inbuilt tracker and remainder.
The tracker must allow user to track amount of water he/she is drinking and
reminds him/her to drink water at custom set intervals.

❑ Function Diagram
❑ Combination Table
❑ Variant Selection
❑ Design for Manufacturing

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Function diagram : Black box
Input Output

Energy Remainder
for
drinking
water

Smart water bottle

Water
consumption
Data input tracker

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Function diagram
Convert energy
Store or accept to make a
Energy
external energy sound/light
(remainder)

User inputs time Remainder

interval after which for
Data input 1 Alarm drinking
he/she required a
remainder water

Records
User inputs time input Water
amount of
Data input 2 amount of water consumption
water
consumed by him/her tracker
consumed

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 Combination table

1 2 3 4
Sub Water consumption
Power source Remainder alarm type Water level indicator
function recorder
Sound from speaker Digital recorder
Digital display
Concept1 Human power
connected level sensor

Spring wound alarm type Dial type recorder

Glass level indicator
Concept 2 Battery source
with marking

Glowing light (LED)

Electrical socket Transparent water
Concept 3
type bottle with scale

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 Variant selection
S.N Variant Color
o
1 (1-1)-(2-2)-(3-2)-(4-2)
2 (1-1)-(2-2)-(3-2)-(4-3)
3 (1-2)-(2-1)-(3-1)-(4-1)
4 (1-2)-(2-3)-(3-1)-(4-1)

1. As per QFD, the technical specifications for the bottle are (done in assignment 1)
S.no Specification name Target value
1 Size 750 ml
2 Material Plastic
3 Shape Cylindrical with small curve
4 Inbuilt remainder Analog type
5 Inbuilt tracker Analog type
6 Cap design Cap with seal
7 Weight Less than 150 gm
8 Color 3 variants – Blue, red, yellow

2. So as per QFD technical specifications and DFM guidelines variant 2 is selected.

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Product concept sketch

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 Design For Manufacturing

1. Minimum total number of parts : Out of all variants, variant 2

has minimum number of variants.
2. Design kept functional and simple : avoiding electronics and
battery made product simple and functional.
3. Designed parts which are multifunctional i.e., parts are
integrated : bottle holds water and shows water level . Bottle
cap holds water and acts as housing for tracker and alarm.

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