Comments

From Ma’am Donna

1. How many workers?
2. 10 hours instead of harvesting time schedule (harvesting hours a day)
3. How much is harvested?
4. Frequency of harvest?
5. No. of boxes per harvest (a day)?
6. Underlined 2 days.
7. What is the weight of each (box per) size?
8. Sources format. (Yung nasa page 7 na lang ang di pa ok, yung ‘tomato @psa.gov.ph’, pati
yung page 10 yung En.Climate-Data.Org)
9. Additional parameter in objective no. 1.
10. Separate sorting time and moisture removal time in objective no. 3.
11. Remove objective 4.1 and change production rate to sorting rate.
12. Add sorting efficiency in the parameters of objective no. 4.
13. Add the typical size and typical weight of tomatoes.
14. Add more conceptual literature, design considerations (calculation), and engineering
standards.
15. Remove “3.1” in Conceptual Framework.
16. In the Conceptual Research Paradigm, in the Design Requirements add Engineering
Standards, and in the Operate add Sorted Tomato.
17. In the 3.2 Technical Design Procedure, (change title?), present the design calculations, and
put range per size instead of one specific size.
18. Change the title of Figure 11.
19. What does frequency mean?
20. Present properly how do you get the sizes.
21. Change ‘Method of Determining the Production Rate’ to Method of Determining Sorting
Rate.
22. Change ‘Method of Determining the Production Efficiency’ to Method of Determining the
Sorting Efficiency.
23. Change the ‘acceptable’ to correctly sorted in the Pout.
24. Remove Production Efficiency 1 to 3.
25. For the Budget Requirement, the total material cost is questionable.

From Sir Aloria

1. Specify the diameter range for small, medium, & large-size tomatoes
2. Degree of ripeness
3. Target moisture content (Initial MC)
4. Air temp. required (air dryer)
5. Sorting speed (two sizes)
6. How did you define capacity (DoE)
7. Sorting Efficiency
8. Production Efficiency
9. Production Eff. = (Moisture removal eff. x Sorting eff.)
10. 3.4. temp of air
11. Target temperature of air
12. Provide the detailed activities for the scope of the study
13. Which one will you consider? (Types of Air blower)
14. Temperature (Figure 11. Flow chart of tomato sorting machine)
15. Moisture content (Figure 11. Flow chart of tomato sorting machine)
16. Diameter
17. Design of experiment

Sir Allan
1. Design according to Capacity
2. Design Operating Capacity;
3. Design Sorting Speed
4. Design Sorting time and moisture removal time
5. Other quality indicator for Final Testing
Adviser List

1. How many Harvests per year? Provide Statistics. What is the current practice? Narrate
the specific problem that you want to address.
2. What is the average moisture content which will be the basis of your design?
3. Which contribute to the spoilage of tomatoes? What is the degree of ripeness? Internal or
external moisture
4. What temperature must be used? What is the target moisture content?
5. For the sizes, what are the ranges of the diameter?
6. What variety will be used?
7. Include in the scope and methodology the random sampling to be done for the size
determination.
8. What is meant by triple tray blow dryer? Discuss mechanism on how tomatoes will move
to their designated trays
9. How are you going to measure quality? Discuss quality inspection
10. What is the production efficiency? Is it a combination of sorting efficiency and moisture
removal efficiency?
11. Why is the sorting speed entailed to two sizes only?
12. How do you come up with the capacity to be tested? How much capacity will be your
input.
13. How do you design the blower?
14. Include sorting efficiency? Sorting time?
15. For sorting, correctly sorted should be included
16. For Production Efficiency it must be sorting efficiency x moisture removal efficiency.
17. For cost estimates, include labor cost.
18. Sizes should be from the target capacity
19. What will happened if one tomato failed?
20. Define acceptable sorted tomatoes.
21. What is the clearance of the drum from the tray?
22. Redesign the machine