INTRODUCTION 1 LITERATURE REVIEW 4 METHODOLOGY 27 CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 42

v TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRAK i ABSTRACT ii DEDICATION iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv TABLE OF CONTENTS v LIST OF FIGURES ix LIST OF TABLES xi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xii

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Background of project

1 1.2 Problem statement 2

1.3 Objective

2 1.4 Scope of project 3

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 4

2.1 Introduction

4 2.2 Slicing machine 4 2.3 Machine design clasification 6 2.4 Design tools used in Product Development Process 7 2.4.1 Quality Function Deployment QFD 7 2.4.1.1 QFD approach on PDP 9 2.4.1.2 House of Quality 10 2.4.2 Pugh Matrix 11 2.4.3 CAD software Solidworks 13 2.4.4 Materials selection CES 14 2.5 Types of design process 16 vi 2.5.1 Total Design 16 2.5.2 Product Design and Development PDD 17 2.6 Total Design in Design Development Process 19 2.6.1 Definition of Total Design 20 2.6.2 Total design stage 20 2.6.3 The use of Product Design Specification in Integrated Method 25 2.6.4 Total Design and Concurrent Engineering 25 2.7 Summary 26

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 27

3.1 Chapter overview 27 3.2 Project planning 27 3.2.1 Previous Work 28 3.2.2 Current Work 28 3.3 Overall structure of project 28 3.4 Design methodology 30 3.4.1 Market investigation 31 3.4.1.1 House of Quality 31 3.4.1.2 Existing slicing machine in market 32 3.4.2 Product Design Specification PDS 33 3.4.2.1 Element of product design specification 34 3.4.3 Conceptual Design Stage 35 3.4.3.1 Concept Generation 36 3.4.3.2 Concept Evaluation 36 i. Pugh selection matrix 37 3.4.3.3 Concept Development 38 3.4.4 Detail Design 39 3.5 Material Selection 40 vii

CHAPTER 4: CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 42

4.1 Introduction 42 4.2 Concept generation of Conceptual Design 42 4.2.1 Old method cutting process 43 4.3 Concept evaluation of conceptual design 44 4.3.1 Design option 44 4.3.1.1 Design Concept 1 DC1 44 4.3.1.2 Design Concept 2 DC2 45 4.3.1.3 Design Concept 3 DC3 46 4.3.1.4 Design Concept 4 DC4 47 4.3.1.5 Design Concept 5 DC5 48 4.3.1.6 Design Concept 6 DC6 49 4.3.1.7 Design Concept 7 DC7 50 4.3.2 Pugh Method approach 51 4.3.2.1 Stage 1 51 4.3.2.2 Stage 2 54 4.3.3 Design Selection Pugh Selection Matrix 55 4.3.4 Selection Weighting 57 4.4 Concept development 58 4.4.1 Part 1-Rubbish box 60 4.4.2 Part 2-Top stage system 60 4.4.3 Part 3-Bottom stage system 61

CHAPTER 5: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 62