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1 Preface
In our fast-paced world, one of the more recent changes is the participation of men in
preparing the food. As more and more men are feeling more comfortable in the kitchen,
the manufacturers of kitchen appliances are looking for new devices to offer the “modern
man”. The classic appliances, with a bunch of (relatively) complex supplementary parts
and lengthy cleaning, are regarded as unsuitable for men. The Bosch – Siemens Home
Appliances Company, with its ~40% share of the small appliances market, believes that in
kitchen men prefer to use devices that have the basic shape of a hand blender, combined
with all the functions other kitchen appliances have to offer. It is this task that we will try
to achieve in this year’s EGPR project. To design, construct, evaluate and produce a hand
blender, designed especially to answer the needs of our “modern man”.
The group consists of 8 participants – two engineers from the Zagreb University, a
designer from Ljubljana, 2 engineers from Budapest University and three more from
Ljubljana.
The BSH Company has specified a precise list of technical and other demands that our
product must fulfill. All these demands are detailed in the next pages.
2 Abstract
In our first report we concentrated on designating our goal in detail, starting with the
functions, technical specifications and ergonomics of a standard hand-blender (to be used
as framework in constructing our own).
By researching the functions and the tools of the existing products, we gathered the
functions and combined them in three segments that could probably be performed each
with one tool. We also found some characteristics in processing different types of food
that can be concluded from the shape of the tools.
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