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Designers
Ian Waggoner, Emma Leo, Wyatt Davy
Target Consumer
Our target consumer would be mainly governmental agencies, more specifically parks and recreations. The bench is meant to provide warmth for park goers and other individuals but the Parks and Recreations offices are the ones in charge of adding things to their parks and maintaining them.
Design Specifications
Things
- Customer Needs: Technically, our customers are the government, but the people who will be using the bench are the citizens of that government. Although public individuals could purchase it if they wanted to.
- Customer Needs: Technically, our customers are the government, but the people who will be using the bench are the citizens of that government. The citizens need a place to be warm, dry, and safe from the environment.
- Performance: This product must be able to heat the seating area efficiently and keep people dry when there is precipitation.
- Target Cost: We aim to have this product not too pricey, but it will have to be a bit more money due to the heating components, therefore it will be somewhere around $2,000.
- Size and Weight: This will be about the size of a normal park bench, except with some extrusions and it will be very heavy due to the heating component and the fact that it will be made out of metal.
- Aesthetics: Our bench will be metallic and modern-looking to keep up with the times and reel those millenials in.
- Materials: The product will have a heated interior with a metal casing. There must be some sort of casing on the metal to prevent burning. Any plastic components must be heat resistant to prevent melting and release of toxic fumes.
- Safety and Legal Issues: improper use of the bench could result in burns or jagged edges could result in lesions. Additionally, placing flammable objects by the exhaust areas could result in damage to the object or possibly even ignition.
- Ergonomics: the bench will be shaped as to provide support for your back and to make you comfortable as well as warm.
- Operating Environment: if implemented in Worcester county, more specifically Ocean City, the product would need to be able to sustain high and low temperatures as well as be made of material that would not wear away from humidity and salty conditions from the Atlantic.
- Global Environment: The product will not produce any harmful toxins to the environment when it is being used. When the bench is done its life cycle it can be melted back down into metal used for other products.
- Service Life:The required service life of the product is approximately 15 to 20 years until the heating aspect of the bench is worn out and it just becomes a plain old bench.
- Product Life:The product life is roughly 15 years until we develop a new version of it.
- Durability and Maintenance:We would need someone to check up on the bench every 6 months to see if everything is working correctly. When they came to check it they would need to have easy access to the nickel coils to see how they are holding up. Their would be no need for special tools for this bench everything would be able to be accessed with the use of practical tools.The only replacement parts that would be used are new nickel coils when the old ones wear out. You can acquire nickel coil from any hardware store or online.
- Must adequately heat the individual sitting upon the product
- Materials must be safe for the sittee as well as the environment. Must not melt under the heat produced by the bench or from the sun.
- Must have an expandable cover to protect the sittee from rain and the environmental conditions
- Must be easily examined for routine checkups.
- Must be able to stop using heat when it is hot and dry outside
- Must use a heated coil to heat the surrounded air.
- Must feature a cover to protect one who is on the bench.
- Cost below $5000.
- Has to have ventilation in order for the pressurized air to escape
- Has to have fixtures that would bolt it to the ground
- Must be the size of an average park bench.