Pringle Project

Morgan Brauer, Matt Muhs, (Kyle Kilty, and Dylan Nelson)

Group Norms

Group Norms

• Respectful to ideas• Disagree Respectfully and legitimately • Share the work load• No vulgar language • Continue to improve ideas

Design Brief

Design Brief

• Problem Statement– Design and create a package that can

contain a Pringles chip. – The chip must be sent through the mail

while remaining intact. – The chip must also be edible and be able

to fit into a flat rate box. – Higher grades will be awarded for smaller

packaging.

Pringle Project

Design Brief

• Design Statement– Package to hold a Pringle Chip Safely– Sent to another school– Will be tested and evaluated– Use of the design process– Inventor (CAD) skills will be used– Sent through a real business (The US

Postal Service)

Pringle Project

Design Brief

• Constraints– Students will use one (regular) Pringles

Potato Chip.– The chip may not be altered– The chip must be recoverable and edible

when received by the partner school– No pre-made Pringles containers should

be used– All packages must be sent via the US

Postal Service – First Class Mail. – Also be advised that there is a 3” x 5”

limit on the size of the package

Pringle Project

Design Brief

• Constraints Cont.– Students will use one (regular) Pringles

Potato Chip.– The chip may not be altered– The chip must be recoverable and edible

when received by the partner school– No pre-made Pringles containers should

be used– All packages must be sent via the US

Postal Service – First Class Mail. – Also be advised that there is a 3” x 5”

limit on the size of the package

Pringle Project

Design Brief

• Designers– Morgan Brauer and Matt Muhs (Fremd)– Kyle Kilty and Dylan Nelson (Conant)

• Client Company– The teachers of the students receiving

Pringles (Mr. Wedoff- FHS; Ms. Buss- CHS)

• Target Consumers– The students receiving the Pringle Chip

Pringle Project

Brainstorming

Engineer’sNotebook

Pringle Project

Engineer’sNotebook

Pringle Project

Research

Research

• Shipping and Packaging

– Through – United States Postal Service– Flat Rate:

• Envelope:• Small:• Medium:• Large:

– Priority Mail: $11.95 • Able to get their faster

Pringle Project

Research

• Pricing:

Research

MOST IMPORTANT!!!

Research

• Pringle Chip• Produced by Procter and Gamble• Introduced in 1968• Saddle shape is mathematically

known as a hyperbolic paraboloid• 42% potato content• Remainder being wheat, starch,

flours, corn, rice, vegetable oils, and emulsifier

• Pringle Chip Dimensions; 2.5 depth, 1.5 width, .75 height, thickness: 1/16

Testing the Pringle

Pringle Chip

Solutions

3 Viable Solutions

Pringle Project

Yellow Wave: Pringle

Gray Box: Customized Box

White Stars: Crumbled Newspaper

Brown Rectangle: Box

3 Viable Solutions

Pringle Project

Yellow Wave: Pringle

Red Cylinder: Pop Can

White Stars: Cotton Balls

Brown Rectangle: Box

3 Viable Solutions

Pringle Project

Yellow Wave: Pringle

Green Square: Jell-o

White Waves: Tissue

Brown Rectangles: Boxes

Decision Matrix

Decision Matrix

Decision Matrix

MAKING THE PACKAGE

Add cotton under and above the

Pringle Chip

Wrap the Pringle in Aluminum Foil

Add cotton to the bottom of the bottom of the Monster Can

Place the Pringle (in the foil) in the can and add more cotton on the sides of the Pringle (in

the aluminum foil)

Place the top of the Monster Can onto the bottom so that the top overlaps the bottom

Surround the can with cotton and tape it on

with duct tape

THE FINAL PACKAGE!!!

TESTING

Squished vertically

Squished horizontally

Dropped from 6 feet

Notice: It falls the way it is dropped

Dropped 4 different ways:

Side 1

Side 3Side 4

Side 2

Kicked at an average distance of 1.35 feet

(through 5 trials where it must be between 1 and 3

feet)

RESULT: A FULLY INTACT PRINGLE CHIP

MATERIALS

Pringle Chip

Monster Can- Top

Monster Can- Bottom

Assembly View

Exploded View

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COTTON!!!

Video

My Movie.wmv

Citations

• http://www.usps.com/prices/usps_prices_printTable.html?csvFile=/prices/_csv/jan022011/Priority%20Mail-Com%20Base.csv&csvTitle=Pricing%20%28Commercial%20Base%20Prices%29&pfTitle=USPS%20-%20Priority%20Mail%20Commercial%20Base%20Prices

• http://secure.smilebox.com/ecom/openTheBox?sendevent=4e5467304e7a6b354e513d3d0d0a&campaign=blog_playback_link&blogview=true

• http://www.pringles.com/en_US/Pages/Home.aspx• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles

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