PSS assignment - Peer Commenting

Peer commenting

Chieh Min Lee - Rebat

Frankie Tsz Hin Ho - GPS bike system

Huan Xie - Trip Planner

Gu Yuliang - Dish vending machine

Siting lin - Baby cloths RVM

PSS project - G.E.R Glass Reverse Vending Machine

For this PSS assignment I’ve decided to design PSS that will be able to recycle glasses,

as I’ve been researching, I realize that there is actually a large percentage of glass bottles that are not being recycled but thrown into landfill, this shows that there is an actual need to get these glass packaging recycled.

The current reverse vending machines have problems, which I've researched on shows that these machines are currently really inconvenient; some people don't even know it exists. They do not offer attractive rewards, which motivates people to recycle and that the machine is really slow in processing, people have to put bottles in one by one.

With this glass reverse vending machine, all you have to do is press the start button and pour all the glass bottles into the machine at once instead of doing it one by one. Threes a sensor, which scans the bottles, if it does not match the requirement the item will be rejected and will be exit at the lower part of the machine. The glass bottles are crushed into cullets and filtered into three categories, which represents the three types of glasses, the brown, green and clear glass. These glass cullets are put into bags, which will be taken away by the staff of recycling facilities. But instead of transporting it to the recycling facility, it is brought over straight to the glass bottle manufactures. The advantages of this machine is that people will be able to see how the bottles are being filters from the middle part of the machine which will be something interesting to watch which will attract children. They will be able to pour all the bottles in at ones that save a lot of time. The reward is not just cash but also lotteries.

It's going to be located in multiple locations like outside supermarket, liquor stores and fuel stations. This makes it really convenient for people, they would not have to bring it over just to recycle but bring it out with them when they are about to buy groceries or alcohol.

Sustainable Product Service System Project assignment

Some research has been done on the reverse vending maching as it serves a similar service as my concept.

This reverse vending machine is produced by the company Envirobank and has been placed in several places around NSW. Unlike usual vending machine, this machine requires user to deposit water bottles and aluminium cans, then a price or refund would be given as a reward.

This machine allows loyalty users to store their reward credit on loyalty card, credits can be used as cash later on. Users without the card can get random rewards vouchers like movie tickets. 

The above photo shows the entry for plastic bottles and aluminium can. Inside the machine are some sensors that scans each bottle that is inserted to ensure it is a product that is recyclable.

The screen on this machine shows the steps of what the user should be doing next. It also tells the user at the end what price they got rewarded. 

Some instructions on the side for people to read when they need to use the machine. 

The exit for rejected items 

Envirobank is currently trying to increase the amount of reverse vending machines around NSW and have had placed machines throughout 7-11s around Melbourne and Sydney. This is one of the 7-11 which currently have the machine located in Kensington.

This reverse vending machine is placed outside the 7-11, very convenient for people who just finished their drinks to deposit it. 

For my concept, I would like to be able to make a machine that can recycle finished glass bottles, paying back refund and also moving a step forward for the recycling the bottles would be crushed and filtered inside the machine to allow easier and quicker recycling.

Who killed the electric car?

After watching this video, it seemed to have reminded me about the reality about this world, the people with larger power controlled a lot of things. Without thinking a lot about electric cars, people might think that it’s just technology that is holding back the entire product but in fact, the thing that is holding back the electric cars are actually some people who are selfish enough to hold back such beneficial products to the world for their own benefit.

When more people start to concern about issues that we have on earth and start to take actions in help resolving these issues, there are people who would do the opposite just to prevent their own business from falling. In this case when the electric car was brought in to solve the issue of fuel assumption, the large amount of fossil fuel being used. As such product if gets popular, there would be a big change in the economy and the profits of government and oil industries. Therefore these oil industry companies try their best to eliminate possibilities of causing a fall in profit and in this case the drop of fuel assumption will cause a big decline in their profit.

Throughout the video, a lot of interviews on the electric car do actually show the benefits and how the electric car would have really worked it’s way to benefiting us.

I believe that in the future, as the fuel price continue to increase and the increasing amount of people more concerned about global warming issues, there will probably be a bigger chance of beneficial products like the electric cars being created and pushed into the market, as people will not be willing to pay for such expensive fuel and probably an increase amount of investor in electric cars.

Though this video main focus was on the electric cars, it reminds us that there are actually a lot of products that has probably been created but due to the problem that it causes some industries; companies will have probably destroyed it.  Hopefully people will try to spread beneficial products more and faster, also have the government’s support will surely encourage more of these products to come out to the market. 

Cormack Project Peer Comments

Chieh Min Lee:
http://leechiehmin.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/2012-cormack-legs-eleven-packaging.html#comment-form

Patrick Luwia
http://pluwia.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/cormack-submission.html

Shenea Huang
http://whereisthecake.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/playtime-submarine.html

Anastasie  Panagopoulos
http://stasiep.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/final-week-packaging-project.html?showComment=1347284180258#c9126691098345384104

Andrew Bae
http://baejin.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/cormack-innovation-awards-normal-0.html?showComment=1347284600764#c7134984421819469982

2012 Cormack Leg Eleven Packaging Design - Squize Jelly Snack Pack

In this assignment, I chose to redesign for the jelly snacks packaging as I realize there are problems with the current packaging, they tend to be really hard to open. One, which has a thin sheet of plastic, which prevents the plastic from spilling out it’s glued onto the plastic container with just a little small tab for the consumer to grab and tear it off causing it really hard to get a good grip of, it requires a lot of strength to tear the thin plastic off, sometimes the plastic will split into two thin plastic while tearing causing it even harder to open. When the thin plastic comes off, the juice from the jelly always spills out.

With this new packaging, it resolves the problem of getting access to the jelly. By just easily twisting or bending the cap and the bottom, it will split apart easily allowing the consumer to consume the product. If the consumer cannot finish it all at once, he/she can just put the cap back on.

The whole packaging is made with polypropylene, the body and cap are made separately, jelly is then injected into the body, and afterwards the mouth of the body and the cap are combined by heating the edge of both parts, this ensures that the jelly won’t be able to spill out and that it will not be contaminated.

A recycling logo is printed at the bottom of the bottle making it easier for recycling.

To use this packaging, just need to simply snap the cap off from the body and squeeze the body to get access to the jelly, cap can then be put back on. This ease of use in this design allows the target market to easily figure out how to use to after purchasing.

This size of the this packaging is designed so that it has a considerate amount of jelly snacks inside together and that it is at a size that allows the target audience to have the most comfortable grip of.

With the small hole at the top of the packaging, allows it to be hung in retail shop racks.

With different flavour of jelly comes in different colour and graphics body.  Giving a more similar colour to what the jelly flavour it is. 

Disassembly exercise - Toaster

In todays exercise, we were given a product to disassemble, for our group we have received a toaster. It is really interesting to disassemble something especially products, which we often use but do not have too much of an idea how the product works, in this case we had the toaster and we realize that there is actually a lot of parts in it. At first we were planning to disassemble it in a way that it can be easily get assembled back afterwards but we realize some parts inside the toaster has to be cut off to get it totally disassembled. 

This toaster actually has a lot of parts, aluminium, steel, ceramic and plastics like PF, it's really interesting to see how many fasteners are used in this product too.

We were then told to redesign the toaster in a way that it's more eco-friendly, from the last photo shows one of our ideas which we have came up with. 

This was a really fun exercise as we don't really get to disassemble products at home often. It is also a good experience to get to see whats inside products like these.