Our Project Status (Ivan Manuel Gunawan)
In our second week, we begin our progress by setting up a quick meet on Sunday (9/15/2013) to brainstorm some more ideas and problem statement that we might want to pursue. There were a few problem statement being pitched in, such as:
- Risk of accident happening to car passenger when opening the car door in a highly traffic city with lots of motorcycle users.
- Damage to car power window electricity system due to rain drops which fall inside the car when the window is opened.
- Raising the driver’s awareness of the car surroundings while driving, by installing camera on the sides and rear part of the car and display it on the speedometer space.
- Making a more efficient car bumper which can absorbs impact during car collision.
- Car light issue at night which often distracts the other drivers viewing capability.
However, after thinking ahead and doing a quick poll on each ideas, we decided to stick on our car and snow problem statement like discussed in 1st week meetings. We also managed to divide up the task we need to do for GR1-activities list, specifically for number 1 – 3 just because we haven’t got any lecture for the rest of the activity at that point of time.
We also discuss about some strategy and topics we want to discuss with Coach Sou before our scheduled meeting with her on Monday (9/16/2013). We expanded our problem statement ideas in car and snow into 2 different part:
- Problem with car and black ice in winter slippery road.
- Reducing time taken to shoveling off the snow from the car surface.
- Wiper that can breaks the freezing ice on the front window panel of the car which often blocks the driver’s sight.
Our meeting with Sou went pretty well, except knowing that we have a lot more to discuss within a short 20 mins timeslot given. She started the meeting telling us about “why” and “Duncker” diagram which was really helpful for us to composing our problem statement. She also kindly provide us with the correct problem statement template to make sure we are doing it right. Before the meeting ends, she told us to send her our composed survey questions that we have made earlier, and then she will help us to correct it.
During our Tuesday class time period, we also managed to split up the job to complete “GR1-Product definition” list. We have set Monday (9/23) to be our deadlines to submit all our partial documents and then start making the report and presentation together.
Exciting/interesting finding (Yaqi Huang)
Gate Review 1 is approaching, which means a lot work should be done in this week. We met a lot and an interesting thing happened. A very good translator appeared in our team. Since we all know Chinese except Ivan. Some time when we argued in Chinese, Cheewee would translate to Ivan automatically. Another fun thing was that after a-week discussion we went back and chose the first topic we had. And this topic is about how we got our team name. what’s more, I made a questionnaire with Steven. This was first time I made a questionnaire. It was cool to design different questions, talk to people and collect information. During the discussion, I even had some new ideas of the solution. Like a circular machine can stick on the window, and move automatically to clean the snow. I feel like I am a detective. Through the talk, I can collet and sum up the information I wanted. Everyone in our team are preparing for the design, for the GR1. We all aim at the same target. That made me feel powerful and awesome.
Future Plan (Qiongyu Lou)
After whole week meeting, we finally decided our launching project as we planned and design a questionnaire. We are starting to send them out and promote our questionnaire. Hope we can get feedbacks from the market by the middle of next week. After collecting these feedback, we will analyze and come up with a more practical solution that can meet all the requirements from the voice of market. In addition, we will also analyze several key attributes from the current solution and decide the most important features for our product to be used and to be developed. Besides those market and customer research, we will also read some patents and literatures to be referenced.
Challenge (Steven Kung)
After our meeting with Coach Sou, we found that we need to define a more specific and detailed problem description to help out design our product. During the first meeting, our team members are all struggling with what products we should design or how function we should include; however, we ignore the fact that product design should stem from customers’ need. Thanks to Coach’s pointing out, although we try to make a questionnaire that looks like cover all the information we want, it turns out the questions we ask lack of deep and detail information, such as color preference, safety issue, etc. Since next week is the due for GR1, we really need a lot of survey data result to build up the QFD table. And the most difficult problem we face is that how can we get the information from manufacture and marketing? If we don’t come up with a real product, how can we ask the manufacturing and marketing people to give us feedback? For me, if I am a sales guy, I don’t know how to market my product if it does not exist…so as the manufacturer……
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