1. Team 21: Liam Binnie, Blair Shearer, Timothy Elizondo, Gregor Thompson &
Jacob Jacob
Industrial Project Presentation
Improving Stone Delivery in Wheelchair
Curling

2. 2
Gregor

3. 3
Gregor

4. 4
Liam
The
Problem
Area
Instability in the
Wheelchair
Optimal Seating
Position
Push Stick Length
No Existing
Biomechanical
Information
Increasing Power
OutputArm Angles
Stone
Rotation

5. 5
Liam

6. 6
Jacob
Discover
Is this stage the team conducted a lot or research. The areas that
were looked into were:
• Rules of the sport
• Current products
• Client research

7. 7
Jacob
Define
The team filtered all the research material we had found
and documented. We then moved to the next stage
which were:
• Creating the PDS
• Concept Generation
• Concept Selection
• Focus Group
Final 3 concepts
Focus group
• All concepts were shown to the British curling team.
• Favourite concept was the Chair insert.

8. 8
Jacob
Develop
the team looked at the results that were obtained in the
define stage and proceeded to develop the design further.
• Prototyping
• CAD
• FMEA
• FEA
• Biomechanical Analysis
Deliver
This is the stage the Project is in. we have our final design.
• Report
• Folio
• Presentation

9. 9
Tim

10. 10
Tim

11. 11
Blair

12. 12
Blair

13. 13
The Solution