Product Teardown: Handheld Sewing Machine

Project Info: Sp22-ME-0040-01-Engineering Design I, Group Project

Project Type: Consumer Product Teardown

Project Timeline: 3 weeks (February-March 2022)

Skills and Techniques: Solidworks CAD modeling

OVERVIEW

Brief: Doing a thorough teardown of a consumer product. The overall goals are to: (1) develop basic knowledge of hand tools; (2) develop insights about users and their experience with a product; (3) gain knowledge of how consumer products function and are constructed (including materials and manufacturing); (4) think about the choices designers make in creating products that respond to customer needs; and (5) understand the role of machine design elements in mechanical design.

Assigned Product: Handheld Sewing Machine

Deliverables: User-Centered Design Analysis, Packaging Analysis, Documenting First Use, Knowledge Elicitation/Observation, External Product Overview, Off-nominal Uses, Concept of Operations (CONOPS Analysis), Exploded View of Product, Decomposition Table, Function Structure, CAD Model of Product