Joanna
Production manager
Production manager
Roles of production manager:
ensures product quality
track, coordinate each steps of the manufacturing process
control the budget, deliver time
3D printing is a manufacturing machine popular among the designers, it allows flexible design that could print according to your demand, along with its fast production, it also minimize wastes and reduces costs on materials.
Materials: 3D printer, color filament, tinkercad
Project Timeline
In order to ensure the process and be able to reflex on the production, I have recorded clips of our group making the product, I have then edited the video using VLLO to add subtitles and trim clips.
Problems we faced :
Throughout the process of designing product, we have went through several struggles and overcome it. My role is to ensure the quality of the product and make changes to the design according to its weaknesses, after doing few trials to test out our product, we found that the edges of the blocks had curled side and peeled off the printing bed due to the errors in the setting, we first started out by deciding to change the machine to wood cutter, so the problem can be solved easily, but as we are exploring the machine, we found that it is way more difficult and have we have to order woods, considering the due dates and the production conveniency of the project, we decide to stick to our own plan, so our group went to the technician and figure out the solutions to it, it was the process that we actually learn about the 3D printer more. However, when we are trying out the blocks, we found another problem that the our blocks does not fit together well, after some more discussions, we decided to adjust the dimensions, using knowledge of mathematics, later when we worked out some solutions, we tested it again and solved another problem.
Reflection: We had worked well as a team to solve/face problems together, we developed teamwork skills and problem solving skills to reach our goal. Overall, I have learned a lot about 3D printing and how to manipulate the machine, I enjoyed the process of learning and solving problems to get familiar with the 3D printing. I think we had reach the goal and create an innovative product that is suitable for our customers, each process of construction, planning and evaluation allow us to develop different skills and increase our knowledge in design.
Even though the COVID pandemic had ruined our original plan, we are fortunate that we have already finished printing some blocks, I believe we could have better performances in creating the product by doing more testings.