PART C: PRESENTATION AND JUSTIFICATION OF SOLUTION DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
Name of the Product: Stick in to the Pan
Designers: Carrie Dortenzo, Marley Rakow, Samantha Ewancio
Target Consumers:
The majority of the people we surveyed baked cookies somewhere between once a month and once a year. These semi-frequent, or even more frequent, cookie bakers would be our target consumer. These people bake cookies every once in a while. People who never bake would have no use for our product. Those that bake frequently may have perfected their own ways to make cookie dough balls. It would be beneficial for once-in-a-while cookie bakers if they had an easy to use way to ball cookie dough. Our survey showed that women are more likely to bake cookies than men, therefore we may target our product more specifically toward women.
Design Specifications:
(listed in order of importance)
- Performance. The product must be able to produce even sized cookie dough balls easily and leave no cookie dough on the dispense system.
- Ergonomics. Must be efficient in producing evenly sized cookie balls and must be easy to scoop and dispense the dough. Must be comfortable to hold and easy to dispense the dough.
- Customer Needs: The customer wants a product that can easily scoop even cookies with no residue left behind.
- Materials. The product must be a non-stick durable material. the product also must not have toxins and rust resistant. Dish-washer safe is a must. Preferably it should be a lightweight metal.
- Safety and Legal Issues. Must be safe to eat off of. Small parts may be a choking hazard.
- Size and Weight. Must be able to grip in your hand. Not bigger than water bottle and not smaller than a spoon. Light weight with durable materials, cannot be heavy to hold.
- Durability and Maintenance. Our product will not bend or break under normal user circumstances. It also will not require maintenance throughout its life except regular cleaning.
- Service Life. The scoop should be able to withstand over 100+ uses.
- Target Cost. $5-$15
- Aesthetics. Silver metal dispense system with a varied colored grip. Dispense system must be non-stick and the grip should be comfortable to hold.
- Operating Environment. The environment of this product will be in a kitchen and must be dish washer safe. The scoop must sustain temperatures from 0 °F- 180 °F but will usually stay at room temperature. It will have to sustain dish-soap, water, cookie dough. It will not rust in a kitchen environment . It will be exposed to dust, normal pressure (unless in a high-altitude), and may be exposed to dropping and thick cookie dough.
- Global Environment. The product will not have any toxins that will harm human health, but will be made of metals and non-stick materials. The preferred disposal plan at the end of its lifetime will be recycling.
- Product Life. The anticipated length to come up with a new cookie scoop would be a year or more.
Constraints:
–Resources : we will need an oven, cookie dough, our product, and a mentor
–Budget : we will need approximately $20 for cookie material $80 for product material
–Time : we will need to complete the project in 3 months
–Energy : will we need to utilize an oven, a welding gun, and a metal mold
–Materials : we will need to use lightweight metals, wood(?), a non-stick material, and silicon
–Manufacturing Process : we will need to mold or weld the metal and assemble the pieces
–Resources : we will need an oven, cookie dough, our product, and a mentor
–Budget : we will need approximately $20 for cookie material $80 for product material
–Time : we will need to complete the project in 3 months
–Energy : will we need to utilize an oven, a welding gun, and a metal mold
–Materials : we will need to use lightweight metals, wood(?), a non-stick material, and silicon
–Manufacturing Process : we will need to mold or weld the metal and assemble the pieces