Dual Function Fruit Picker Tool

Abstract

Current fruit picker are design to pick fruits without taking into consideration of user comfort and quality of the fruit after picking operation. Because of those situations, this project presents the development and improvement on fruit picker. This project will have two functions on fruit picker which is to cut and wrap the fruit directly. In addition, this project will simplify picking fruit job because users can get the fruits without ladder to climb. The purpose of this project is to ensure the quality of the fruits is impact after picking operation. Experiments were conducted to analyze quality of the fruit before and after picking operation using current design and prototype. The challenge of this project is to construct a fruit picking operation environment condition. Quality function deployment (QFD) and product design specifications (PDS) are used as a guideline to produce this product better than existing product. Result from this analysis, two prototypes of fruit picking tools was developed. For conclusions, the new design able to perform better than old design. Besides that, quality of the fruits after picking operation shows less damage and the fruit picking tools are comfortable to use.