Project 3.3.4 – Product Disassembly Display

Purpose

Displaying your work is an important aspect in many different fields of engineering. How you arrive at your ideas, solutions, and conclusions are an important part of communication. Making presentations of your work is a method used by many engineering firms to determine if the team has worked together successfully and if all team members have shared in the work.

In this project, you will complete several pre-activities that will enable you to collect the information needed in order to make your display. It is imperative that you keep good notes and refer to your team to make sure everyone has the same information. Having team members who are consistent in their understanding and who communicate with each other are parts in learning to be engineers.

You and your partner will be expected to make a poster presentation of your findings. You will create a tri-fold poster of your product along with your three-minute presentation about what you learned about disassembling your product.

Equipment

  • Engineer’s notebook
  • Product Disassembly chart
  • Product part drawings
  • Product part 3D models printouts
  • Mass property analysis results
  • Paper
  • Computer with 3D CAD modeling software
  • Product your team disassembled with all parts labeled
  • Tri-fold poster board at least ¾” thick that is sturdy and thick to hold product parts
  • Scissors
  • Felt tip pens or colored markers
  • Optional: Hot glue gun
  • Optional: Hot glue sticks
  • Optional: Wire ties used to hold parts of product on board
  • Optional: Hole punch to create holes for wire ties

Procedure

In Activity 3.3.2 Product Disassembly, you and your partner disassembled a product that your teacher provided you. You created a chart that identified the parts and measurements, and you gathered other important information, such as isometric sketches that were rendered for each part, and mass property analysis results.

In this project, discuss with your partner who will model various parts. Also, determine to what degree of accuracy you will measure the parts, what names you will use to save the models, where the models will be saved, and whatpart modeling proceduresyou will use.

If you have not already done so,

Create a sketch of each part. Measure and label each part.Annotate the parts of your product you selected to do.Create a solid model of the parts of your product you selected to do.

Communicate with your partner throughout this assignment so that both of you abide by the standards identified that you are to follow.

Have your teacher check your progress and the modeling of your parts as you work.

Create drawing sheets of each part with a multi-view representation and an isometric projection.

Prepare your poster for the poster session using the following criteria:

Create a tri-fold display that includes the following:

  • Rendered isometric drawing with a title bar with the following information for each part of the product:
  • Name of Part
  • Dimensions of Part
  • Material of Part
  • Density of Material
  • Volume
  • Surface Area
  • Mass
  • Parts mounted on the board with corresponding label to the drawing of each part
  • Product Display Chart

Prepare a three-minute presentation that answers the following questions:

  • What is your product and its function?
  • What did you learn about the product’s mass property analysis?

Conclusion

  1. Is there another reason for product disassembly besides the modeling and electronic documentation of parts?
  1. Explain the process used to complete a mass property analysis, and explain why this process is commonly used in industry?
  1. Describe how important it is to have good interpersonal communication skills in a technically related field, such as engineering and design?

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