IH01-Ryan Jue

From IEOR 170 Spring 2007

Good Design (Lint Remover)

I feel that the lint remover is an example of a good design, specifically referring to the circular design. The circular design allows for the natural "wheel" movement for the spindle to traverse across the various clothing items that you'd like to remove lint from. In addition, the design allows for a unique way to use replacement sheet when the top layer gets covered. The layers and spun around the top layer allow a simple pull to take off a sheet and it'll allow a new sheet underneath to be used. The circular design helps with this as well because it allows for an easy way to pull off the older top layer with the wheel design.

Bad Design (Beer Bottle)

I feel that the beer bottle is a very inefficient design. When you're drinking, the liquid gets caught in the larger cylinder and causing air space and falling liquid. This creates foam and an unpleasant method for drinking the liquid very quickly. I feel that the bottle may have been made in this method for a number of reasons:

1. it's easier to manufacture a symmetrical bottle.

2. It allows the bottle to be bottom heavy to prevent tipping over as easily.

3. It indicates that the top should be drank from because it's smaller

4. The top is smaller for the bottle cap to fit over and less metal to be used.

Improved Bad Design (New Beer Bottle)

I feel if the top of the beer bottle was redesigned to have a slope at the top towards the drinker. This is shown in the diagram above. This way the liquid when drank doesn't fall creating the foam. It also holds up all of the previous design concepts that I believed were employed when creating the original design, except the manufacturing a symmetrical bottle. That may or may not be an important factor due to the intent to produce these bottles for low costs as they are just the containers for the actual product.