Need Statement

Vindya Hostel is in need of cloth folding bot to ease the work of students.

Introduction

Many students are facing lots of difficulties to fold and arrange their clothes due to their busy schedules.To help them our team is designing and making a semiautomatic, portable cloth folding machine with some engineering skills. Cloth folding machines' are greatly used in textile industries .These machines are very expensive for the people. So we are making a affordable, easy to use machine .

2.1 Question and Answers

Sl.No	Questions	Answer	Objective/Function/Constraint
1	What to do want the machine to do?	Fold clothes	Function
2	Do you want the machine to be automatic or semiautomatic?	Semiautomatic	Objective
3	How many tshirts to you want to be folded in one go?	1	Constraint
4	Do you want to the machine to be fixed or portable?	Portable	Objective
5	What should be the minimum weight of machine?	Less than 1kg	Constraint
6	What is the minimum size of machine?	1.5ft1.5ft1.5ft	Constraint
7	What is your minimum budget for machine?	Less than 4000/-	Constraint
8	What other functions do you expect?	It should have an indicator to signal process completion, it should sense the cloth	Function
9	Do you want the machine to be user friendly?	Yes	Objective
10	Which colour machine would you prefer?	I would prefer some decent colour	Objective
11	Do you want to store and dispense clothes?	Yes	Function

2.2 Basic survey and requirements

     Table 2: Observation from a literature survey

Sl.no.	Observation from surveys	Requirements
1	Weight of machine	It should easy to carry
2	Cost	Machine should not exceed price of 4000Rs
3	Number of tshirts to be folded	Machine should fold one tshirt in one go

2.3 Identify clients objectives

   Table 3: Objectives identified

l.no.	Objectives
01	Machine should be semiautomatic
02	Machine should be portable
03	Machine should be user friendly
04	Machine should be decent in colour

Problem definition 1.1: Design a semi-automatic cloth folding machine, which should be portable with some decent colour and user-friendly.

2.4 Identify constraints

 Table 4: Identified constraints

Sl.no.	Constraints
01	Machine should weight less than 1kg
02	Machine should fold one tshirt in one go
03	Machine should not exceed price of Rs4000
04	Dimensions of machines should be 1.5ft each

Problem definition 1.2: Design a semi-automatic cloth folding machine, which should be portable with some decent colour and user-friendly. Machine should not exceed the volume of 1.5 cubic unit, should fold one tshirt in one go, should not exceed price of Rs4000 .

2.5 Establishing functions

          Table 5: Identified Functions

Sl.no.	Functions
01	Fold clothes
02	Dispensing
03	Storage

Problem definition 1.3: Design a semi-automatic cloth folding machine, which should be portable with some decent colour and user-friendly. Machine should not exceed the volume of 1.5cubic feet, should be able to fold one T-shirt in one go, should not exceed price of Rs4000. Machine should fold and store the clothes.