This document summarizes the redesign of a soap dish to address problems with the original design. The original soap dish had small gaps and corners where soap could get trapped, an large handle that created an unbalanced weight distribution, and complex detailing that increased production costs. The redesign simplifies the form to remove gaps and corners, reduces the handle size, centralizes the weight, incorporates slight curves to drain melted soap, and uses a simpler design for easier cleaning and lower production costs.

1. HARDWARE DESIGN
AND
PRODUCT DETAILING
BY MANOJ KUMAR SHUKLA
AD V, BD/12/966

2. BRIEF : Choose any product ranging from Rs 10 – 15 any
study its problem areas and redesign it rectifying its problems
Product : Soap dish
Price : Rs 15
Material : Plastic
ORIGINAL SOAP DISH

3. ISOMTERIC VIEW
SIDE VIEW
FRONT VIEW TOP VIEW

4. PROBLEMS
• In the small gaps and corners the soap gets gathered and
sometimes its not possible to clean
• The large handle may provide comfort in holding but its
distributed surface area mass when soaps are placed into the
dish makes a unbalanced kind of weight distribution
• The gaps and small corners get filled by the soap when the
soap is wet
• Too much complex design of soap dish gets bad reviews from
the customers and its users
• If we see this product on a production level then this much of
detailing in the soap dish results in the increase in the
detailing in the casting die which is made up iron

5. ISOMETRIC VIEW
SIDE VIEW
FRONT VIEW
TOP VIEW

6. SOLUTIONS
• This soap dish doesn’t have too much of gaps and corners so
as to void the gathering of soap.
• It has a quiet small handle so that the user can hold it up by
his/her one finger
• Due to its curvy form all the weight is centralize in the centre
which makes a balance so as to hold it up
• The melted soap will go down by the one slight curve on both
sides, and due the form of the dish the soap will go out from
that place only
• Its simple design makes it possible for easy cleaning
• On the basis of manufacturing and production it had more
simple form than the other one, and makes it easier to
produce