Ceiling-mounted bicycle lift redesign
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| + | For our third concept, we decided to incorporate an indoor furniture lift. This lift has many capabilities and innovations that have never been seen before. Its most distinguished features include the ability to raise and lower couches, tables, benches, chairs, book shelves, etc. The design is based on the aesthetically pleasing lifting and lighting track. | ||
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| + | Similar to a contemporary lighting track, you can install any type of track lighting fixture onto this design; however, you can additionally install our motorized lifting systems. This lifting system operates on a switch that also controls the lights. This allows for the furniture to be raised and lowered as well. The indoor lifting system is heavy duty as well; capable of supporting a fully loaded couch or a table with thanksgiving dinner. | ||
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| + | This new concept has several desirable capabilities that the market has not seen before. First, it allows for new, modern living room arrangements. Since TV, sound and movie technology is entering the living room, why not furniture? Also, for a more conventional use, the lift allows the user to clean under furniture without the hassle of moving large pieces of furniture. The motorized lift provides this for the user. | ||
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| + | The cables that support the furniture have heavy duty clips connected to them which are to be connected to the eye bolts that are installed into the back of the desired indoor item. This provides a unique capability to the user that is both desirable and functional. | ||
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Revision as of 00:29, 8 March 2007
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Executive Summary
Research and Observations
We have been tasked to identify a new opportunity in the domain of the ceiling-mounted bicycle lift and develop new product design recommendations to improve and expand your product line. As we stated in our previous report, we feel that the product has been designed very well and that it fulfills its intent to use the commonly unused space directly below a ceiling for storage. However, this product is severely limited to only being able to store one bicycle. We feel that you will be able to improve and expand your product line by producing new products that can store many other items in the space directly below a ceiling. The Team 1 Research Documentation page shows pictures of storage places that we have taken during our research and the results from a survey we have taken to determine what items may be stored by a ceiling mounted device. This research gave us a chance to go beyond our own personal experience of storage problems and see what sort of items that different people could feasibly and usefully store near a ceiling. We found that...
Concept Generation
We held a brainstorming session as a group to develop as many storage solutions as possible. Our ideas were focused on using the space below a ceiling for storage. Our list of ideas can be seen on the Team 1 Brainstorming Documentation page. We voted on the ideas to narrow them down and develop a few strong concepts.
Concept 1: Heavy Duty Industrial Lift
The Heavy Duty Industrial Lift takes the idea of the ceiling-mounted bike lift to another level. It would be built with strong and durable materials that could withstand very high loads. It is intended to be used in an industrial setting to store large heavy objects or multiple heavy objects inside a place such as a warehouse, where high ceilings are common. The Heavy Duty Industrial Lift would utilize the typically unused space directly below a high ceiling. Objects may be stacked or placed on top of the wire grid, or they could be hung from the grid or additional eyelets. The pulley system as shown in the sketch would provide a 10 to 1 mechanical advantage. A heavy duty cable runs through each pulley and the grid is raised and lowered by means of a hand winch, which provides an additional mechanical advantage.
Concept 2: Garage and Basement Use Storage Lift
The garage and basement use storage lift expands upon the ceiling mounted bike lift in many ways. The bike lift have a very small market and does not appeal to many people. The garage and basement use storage lift expands the market by being able to lift almost anything that one would store in there basement or garage. It allows for this by having a variety of changeble lifting mechanisms. They include the original hooks, a bin, and a clothing hook rack as can be seen in the picture below as well as many more. Also, the pulleys at the ceiling will be able to slide back and forth so that the user can adjust the distance between them as well as there placement on the ceiling. Finally, a better quality rope will be used so that the lift can lift more weight.
Concept 3:
For our third concept, we decided to incorporate an indoor furniture lift. This lift has many capabilities and innovations that have never been seen before. Its most distinguished features include the ability to raise and lower couches, tables, benches, chairs, book shelves, etc. The design is based on the aesthetically pleasing lifting and lighting track.
Similar to a contemporary lighting track, you can install any type of track lighting fixture onto this design; however, you can additionally install our motorized lifting systems. This lifting system operates on a switch that also controls the lights. This allows for the furniture to be raised and lowered as well. The indoor lifting system is heavy duty as well; capable of supporting a fully loaded couch or a table with thanksgiving dinner.
This new concept has several desirable capabilities that the market has not seen before. First, it allows for new, modern living room arrangements. Since TV, sound and movie technology is entering the living room, why not furniture? Also, for a more conventional use, the lift allows the user to clean under furniture without the hassle of moving large pieces of furniture. The motorized lift provides this for the user.
The cables that support the furniture have heavy duty clips connected to them which are to be connected to the eye bolts that are installed into the back of the desired indoor item. This provides a unique capability to the user that is both desirable and functional.
Concept Analysis
Pugh Chart
| Description | Ceiling-mounted bicycle lift | Concept 1 | Concept 2 | Concept 3 | |
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| Sketch | Ceiling-mounted bicycle lift Sketch | | | 
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| Criteria | Weight | Datum | Design 1 | Design 2 | Design 3 |
| Cost | 3 | 0 | - - | 0 | - |
| Durability | 2 | 0 | + | 0 | 0 |
| Safety | 3 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 |
| Aesthetics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ++ |
| Usefulness | 3 | 0 | + | ++ | ++ |
| Strength | 1 | 0 | ++ | + | + |
| + | 0 | 7 | 7 | 9 | |
| 0 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 7 | |
| - | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 | |
| Net Score | 0 | -2 | 7 | 6 | |
Value Opportunity Analysis
