Development of low cost automated banana slicer

Md Ali, Muhamad Norazli (2020) Development of low cost automated banana slicer. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Many entrepreneurs love to sell Malaysian delicacies and that is banana chips. They are interested to sell banana chips but the world is not so kind especially to entrepreneurs. They still lack experience and they have low capital. Because of low capital, they need to create banana chips manually to reduce cost. They cannot spend money on a slicing machine because it is expensive, thus do it manually is the only way to create the product. By doing this process manually, the capacity that can be produced is limited. The time consumption is also largely because the speed of the production is slow. The stamina to create the product is also high because the person needs to focus on slicing the banana to avoid slice too thickly or too thinly. There is an article about the women community that capable of creating the banana chips but they cannot expand their business even already 5 years in the industry until they are taught to use the technology. Hence, the purpose of this project is to develop a low-cost banana slicer machine. This can help to improve the production of the banana chips and reduce time consumption to slice the banana. Firstly, we need to research how the machine slice the banana because the machine is automatic and does not know right or wrong. This is by researching the various type of slicing machines that have already been created. When we found a suitable circuit and design we try to create the prototype and analyse the result. We repeat the process until we get the best result. The thing that needs to be considered is the type of blade, motor, and power supply. We also need to consider the material used especially the banana type. After we get the result we want, we try to brainstorm what additional feature that we can add to improve the quality of this machine. I hope the development of this banana slicer machine can help the banana chips entrepreneur to get profit and minimize the loss risk and can help economy performance to avoid an increase in food prices and groceries

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