Pario – Tabletop Vacuum Former

January 2017 – May 2017
Academic Individual Project.

The vacuum former is able to build prototypes and parts efficiently, rapidly and at lower costs.

Gap in the market

Arya: She runs a bakery from home. She bakes cookies, cakes and
pastries also makes special chocolates in various shapes and sizes.

She needs moulds for chocolates, containers for pastries, and some
transparent cases for chocolate boxes.

As the demands fluctuates and orders are tailored for the customers and hence she needs customized moulds and casings.

Rekha: She is an architect and for her project presentations and
demonstrations she needs models of objects of multiple shapes and
sizes. She needs to design such models out plastic quickly.

Vedant: He runs a
mechanical workshop.
He often notices that small
objects such as tools, nuts
and bolts are not properly
kept and finds them lying
on ground mostt of the
time. It becomes difficult
to find all the parts from
a single tool box. So he needs containers and casings for numerous varieties of tools and parts which are specific to them for better storage.

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Problem Statement

In what way might I create a product so that making plastic parts and prototypes becomes inexpensive and less time consuming?

Identifying User Requirements

3D printing or injection moulding for prototyping or producing parts for low and medium quantity becomes time consuming and expensive.
Outsourcing production such as injection moulding or even vacuum forming or thermoforming may not be viable if orders are customised.
Small business cannot afford industrial vacuum former and a 3D printer.
Existing vacuum formers are bulky and expensive.
High Costs refrains creator from individually customizing and tailoring their products for their users needs.