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NCDA: Pickle Sorter Project Proposal

NCDA: Pickle Sorter Project Proposal. Project 98.09 Sponsored by Ed Kee of Keeman Produce, Lincoln, DE. Overview. Introduction Description of Problem Method Wants  Metrics  Concepts System and Functional Benchmarking Schedule Division of labor Budget. Project Background.

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NCDA: Pickle Sorter Project Proposal

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  1. NCDA: Pickle Sorter Project Proposal Project 98.09 Sponsored by Ed Kee of Keeman Produce, Lincoln, DE

  2. Overview • Introduction • Description of Problem • Method • Wants  Metrics  Concepts • System and Functional Benchmarking • Schedule • Division of labor • Budget

  3. Project Background • Title: Pickle Sorter • Sponsor: Ed Kee of Keeman Produce • Problem: The pickling cucumber industry currently separates undesirable cucumbers from desirable ones manually. Mr. Kee would like a device to efficiently and reliably separate the usable cucumbers from the unusable ones.

  4. Schematic

  5. Strategy • Mission: To provide an integrated, automated system to sort out undesirable pickles on the processing line. • Approach: Collect customer wants and develop them into metrics which can be used to evaluate benchmarks and concepts for a design solution.

  6. Customers and Wants

  7. Benchmarking • Current Method: • Manual selection and removal - No integrated, efficient, inexpensive system currently in use. • System: • Several integrated solutions exist, each having its own set of problems. • Functional: • Many of our concepts include functions that have been independently developed for other.

  8. Wants  Metrics • Cost • Price • Effectiveness • % Good Removed • % Bad Removed • Working Area • Length • Width • Reliability • Mean Time to Failure • Speed • Pickles Per Minute • Portability • Size • Weight

  9. Target Values

  10. System Benchmarks

  11. Functional Benchmarks

  12. Concept Generation • Concepts • Brainstorming • Identification: • Imaging • Mechanical • Removal: • Pneumatic • Mechanical • Benchmarking • Systems: • Bacchus • Aweta • Functional: • Ensco • SensoRx • ELOP • Staalkat B.V.

  13. Concepts • Imaging system coupled to solenoid activated pneumatic piston. • Imaging system with a trap door removal system. • Imaging system which controls a robotic removal arm. • Tilted conveyor belt which separates good and bad pickles based on rolling characteristics.

  14. Concept Evaluation • - Imaging/Pneumatic System: • Most Promising; Is equally good with Effectiveness and Speed. Cost currently unknown. • - Imaging/Trap Door System: • Similar to system above, lags behind in Effectiveness and Speed. • - Imaging/Robotic Arm System: • Cost prohibitive if Speed Target Value is to be met. Also, more moving parts may decrease Reliability. • - Rolling Method: • Fails Effectiveness, Speed Metrics; Has been ruled out.

  15. Division of Work

  16. Progress To Date:

  17. Schedule To Next Presentation:

  18. Estimated Budget

  19. Closing Points • Metrics Derived From Wants • Benchmarks Evaluated Using Metrics • Initial Concepts Evaluated Using Metrics • Progress and Looking Ahead

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