2. Table of Contents
Introduction
The Soup Ladle
Why a “Juice” Ladle?
Rationale for Product Choice
User Research : Issues and Design Directions
Market Research
Suppliers
Consumer Market
Reverse Engineering
Measurements
Properties
Renders
Draft
3. Table of Contents
Redesign(1)
High heeler
Build Properties
Draft
Load test
Redesign(2)
Pringle
Build Properties
Draft
Load test
FMEA
Conclusions
Future Directions
4. The Soup ladle
A ladle (dipper) is a type of spoon used for soup, stew, or other foods. Although
designs vary, a typical ladle has a long handle terminating in a deep bowl, frequently
with the bowl oriented at an angle to the handle to facilitate lifting liquid out of a pot
or other vessel and conveying it to a bowl.
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladle_(spoon)
5. Why a “Juice” Ladle?
A Ladle is generally used to serve thick stew/soup. In IIITDM they employ a ladle to serve Juice
, hence the title of the study is coined as “Juice Ladle Design”.
The above mentioned implement belongs to the portfolio of cutlery designed for the
commercial kitchen.
The Juice Ladle possesses two key functional elements:
The Ladle head
The Stalk/ handle
The Ladle head is secured to the handle through a rivet.
12. Summary : Issues -> Design Changes
Issues Design Directions
• Heavy Spill during use.
• Needs multiple passes to fill a 300ml glass’s worth of
juice from the container
• Understand the use case.
• Identify factors responsible for spill.
• Identify number of passes required.
Ladle ineffective for drawing juice from the bottom of the
container
• Geometry of ladle head?
• Length of Stalk a constraint ?
The use case is un-intuitive • Rethink form?
• Alternate ways to approach problem ?
• Morphology?
15. Consumer Market
• Available standalone or as a
part of a cutlery set
• Prices are variant, depending
on whether local or imported.
Also dependent on whether
sold in loose or in a set.
18. Build Properties:
Property Particulars
Physical Material Steel
Appearance Steel - Satin
Area 4.333E+04 mm^2
Density 0.008 g / mm^3
Mass 282.011 g
Volume 3.592E+04 mm^3
Bounding Box Dimensions
Length 71.37 mm
Width 90.59 mm
Height 71.37 mm
20. Draft (failed)
Why did it fail?
It failed due to the free form
modelling I used to design a
major part of the stalk.I chose
a wrong paradigm to design
the stalk of the ladle and was
unable to correct it later.
Remodeling the ladle would
solve the problem.
25. Features:
Use case intuitive
Reduction in the number of
manufacturing Processes
Aesthetic
26. Build Properties:
Property Particulars
Physical Material Steel
Appearance Steel - Satin
Area 8.626E+04 mm^2
Density 0.008 g / mm^3
Mass 688.008 g
Volume 3.592E+04 mm^3
Property Particulars
Length 217.681 mm
Width 366.642 mm
Height 78.267 mm
31. Build Properties:
Property Particulars
Physical Material Steel
Appearance Steel - Satin
Area 6.411E+04 mm^2
Density 0.008 g / mm^3
Mass 436.19 g
Volume
5.557E+04 mm^3
Bounding Box Dimensions
Length
173.568 mm
Width
350.139 mm
Height
112.775 mm
35. Feature
Potential Failure
Mode(s)
Potential Effect(s)
of Failure
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Potential Cause(s)/
Mechanism(s) of
Failure
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Current Design
Controls
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Recommended
Action(s)
Datum Ladle Breakage or bending
of ladle due to
excessive bending
force
Use case would be
affected
1 Excessive Loading of
ladle, mishandling
1 Preventive design 1 1 Ignore case,
improbable
Rivet Loosening of rivet The container gets
detached from the
ladle handle
9 Fatigue 9 Design for fatigue
loading
9 729 Preventive design,
adhesive bonding in
addition to riveting
Container Hole or crack Dropping the product ,
improper handling
3 Human error 3 Thickness
compensation for
container
3 27 Thickening of
container
36. Conclusions
The report aims at solving the issues faced by the IIITDM cohort while helping
themselves to a cup of juice using a commercial juice ladle . A sample user study was
conducted and user feedback was collected. The existing juice ladle was reverse
engineered and modelled using FUSION 360 and a cost analysis was performed. The
user feedback drove the redesign process and two products the “High heeler” and
“Pringle” were conceptualised. The design direction was influenced by the need for
an intuitive use case.