<p>This report summarizes a Bachelor Degree Project in Product Design Engineering,</p><p>carried out during the spring semester in 2007 by one student on the Product Design</p><p>Engineering programme at University of Skövde. The project was performed as an</p><p>assignment for Comfort Cooling AB, a company in Skövde that manufactures cooling</p><p>clothes and products for medical use.</p><p>The purpose of the project is to design a suitcase for laptops that is used also as a</p><p>workstation. It has a cooler system, provided by Comfort Cooling that works with no</p><p>external energy. It has a base made of foam sheet, to adapt it to the legs of the user. And it</p><p>has as well all the normal features characteristically of a suitcase for laptops, such as</p><p>pockets, handles and security features.</p><p>The first step in the project was to perform market research in order to gather</p><p>customer needs. It was found that the primary features of a laptop suitcase are that it is</p><p>waterproof, that it is possible to carry the suitcase on ones back, that there are trays on both</p><p>sides of the suitcase, and that the suitcase will be available in a range of patterns and</p><p>colours. After that, the design of the possible solutions for each requirement started to be</p><p>developed. Once all the requirements of the project were satisfied with different solutions,</p><p>each one of them were evaluated in order to identify the solutions that in the best way met</p><p>the stated product requirements. Finally a mock-up was produced for communicating the</p><p>final design proposal and for enabling basic user trials to be carried out, as well as the final</p><p>result, i.e. the design and the mock-up of the laptop suitcase.</p><p>The report portrays the product design process and methods utilized in the project,</p><p>as well as the final result (the mock up) of the laptop computer bag with integrated cooling</p><p>effect and workstation.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:his-251 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Hugo, Perea Lisbona |
| Publisher | University of Skövde, School of Technology and Society, Skövde : Högskolan i Skövde |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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