Problem Statement for the Assignment
In modern society, it is the goal of every company to innovate a product to make it as convenient and effortless as possible. I want to innovate the restacking of a pool table. My target audience in producing a product like this would be only the very wealthy of people. Having the target audience at mind, I am able to charge this product at a very high price; therefore, have a big spending range while designing this product. This allows me to be as creative as possible when designing and planning a product like this.
Assumptions
My assumptions of this product is that it will attract the interest of not only the very wealthy who casually play pool but also pool fanatics who play for a living and are tired of racking the pool balls all together every time. I will also be assuming that mainly those with money will be interested which gives me the green light to be as creative a possible as budgeting is out of the picture but yet again this could be seen as a waste of money. Although a product like this is unknown to many and is not on the market so I can also assume that my product has a good chance of blowing up. Tech-savvy people will purchase to see how it works, youtubers will have it to flex on their audience therefore creating more publicity, and anyone with luxury buildings who include the best of the best products for their décor. This is also assuming that the pool balls are all set on top of the surface playing area and not in the sockets. A design could be made to push the pool balls our but I don’t see that being necessary yet. I also assume that in each scenario, environment conditions are optimal to not sway any of the calculations.
Decision Matrix
Multiple Solutions
Solution 1: Magnets under the table that is lowered under the platform where the game of pool is played and then raised whenever the game ends and the balls are set on the surface. When all balls are put on the table, the magnets will be raised and there will be electricity conducted on them to strengthen the pull of the magnets in all the other balls. The magnet will be a triangle with the dimensions of the pool triangle used to set up the game. The pull will attract all the balls to the triangle and after a couple seconds the magnets will be turned off and lowered so they don’t affect the balls anymore. The balls will be placed in the triangle formation completely randomized
Solution 2: The table is raised on the front two legs to have all the balls pulled on one wall (the sockets will be closed using some kind of lever that prevents the balls from falling in). There will be a bar that is raised right on the bottom side of where the triangle should be and it will be long enough to touch the walls. The balls will then be directed towards that wall with the help of the pool tables front leg being lowered so the balls start rolling due to gravity. When all the balls are lowered onto the wall, the tables legs will even out and be stable with the back legs. Now that all the balls are on the raised bar, two more bars in opposing diagonal angles are coming in from the sides and push all the pool balls to the middle until they are squished and form a triangle. When the bar feels a certain type of resistance, it is then retracted into the slots where they came from including the initial long bar with all the pool balls placed in the triangle formation.
Solution 3: Similar to how bowling pins are raised and then placed back down after you have a bowl, there will be a magnet that seeks the pool balls. This over head magnet will be engineered and installed with the purchase of the pool balls (this way I am no longer selling a pool table). The over head magnet will be calculated and coded that whenever it is activated, the magnet is lowered and goes around the pool table in a snake like motion going left to right until all the pool balls are collected and then it will be symmetrically placed in the middle where the magnet will release the balls in a triangle formation for the next game.
Gantt Chart
Lessons Learned
Something I learned is yet again about procrastination. I keep putting these types of projects off until the last minute and I end up not being able to figure out how to past the Gantt chart and images to this website and everyone’s asleep and I can’t get help. I also realized that innovation can just be copying an already innovated device and just apply it to another product. Also learned that innovating a product does not mean you have to innovate the entire product (example: solution 3).
Comments to each advisee
Michael Herterich: This assignment is not published yet
Aditya Singh: The images are very stretched to the point it is almost unreadable. The concept images are not being shown but it could be my bad apartment wifis fault not the website. I don’t know if the strategies are talked about more in the past assignment or in the images that I cannot see but I would emphasize more on explaining it rather than talk about the calculations. I hope for a healthy recovery on your arm!
EDIT: How do I add equations for something like this?