Problem Statement:
Design an innovative cabinets which are the built-in furniture installed in lab storage room for
storage of Lab coat, safety googles, gloves, and other safety equipment for lab safety purpose. In
the design of a modern lab storage area, the design of storage is a principal part because the volume
of the cabinets will determine the spare space for other electric power tools and storages. A sample
cabinet design is shown in the figure below.
Figure 1 Sample Cabinet Design
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Guidelines:
The engineering design process is a series of steps you as an engineer will be performing in
creating functional product. Since you are taking a lab in Design and Manufacturing, you are going
to perform all the steps involved in the design process. The heart of any design for manufacturing
system is a group of design principles or guidelines that are structured to help the designer reduce
the cost and difficulty of manufacturing an item.
Step 01: Literature review: It is an important step in the design process. In this step you are going
to perform a detailed research on the scholarly articles, books, market search, and other relevant
resources in your field of research. At the end of this section, you have to come up with a
Preliminary Design.
Step 02: Preliminary Design: From the preliminary design, you will develop the conceptual
design.
Step 03: Conceptual Design: In this phase, you will generate different alternatives of your design,
then perform a decision matrix on the alternatives. In decision matrix for example: you will include
easy of manufacturing, reduced cost, less use of material as well as type of material will be the
parameters used in the decision matrix. And based on the decision matrix, you will come up with
the best design Model.
Step 04: 3D modeling phase and Production: Once the best model is selected, you will start with
the 3D modeling phase. The 3D model will be produced using the Fusion 360 or any other software
such as Auto CAD, SolidWorks or ANSYS. Here you will specify what you will use for
manufacturing or choose the right manufacturing tool or process for example Hand tools, power
tools, CNC Machines, or
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3D printers etc. And finally you will provide us the STL file or CAD file later for printing or CNC
G- Code which will undergo testing and analysis for the small parts.
Report Outline:
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Cover page
Table of contents
Abstract
Introduction
Steps (1-4)
Discussion & conclusion
References
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