Sketch Model Presentation: Adjustable Height Crib

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Sketch Model PresentationAdjustable Height Crib

• Team Red A

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Market

• In 2006, 3.1 million households bought a crib
  spending over 800 million
• For 2008, the birth rate is 14.2 births per 1000
  people?4.5 million newborns

• Sources
• KidsTodayOnline http//www.kidstodayonline.com/art
  icle/CA6412909.html?qcribs2B2007
• CIA World Factbook https//www.cia.gov/library/pub
  lications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

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Current Products

• Cribs with Drop Side Rail

• Manual Height Adjustable Cribs/Play Yards

• Sources
• Atlantic Hospitality atlantichospitalityinc.com/..
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• Baby Crib Shop baby-crib-shop-manpela23.blogspot.c
  om
• FEHA Design cgi.ebay.co.uk/Playpen-100x75-height-a
  djustable-NEW-L07_W0QQitemZ230294950524QQcmdZVi

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Customer Needs

• One single device to serve as a
• Crib
• Play Yard
• Changing Table
• Back Saver
• Crib whose height can be adjusted while the baby
  is still inside

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Our Idea

• Adjustable Height Crib!
• Technical Requirements
• Can lift up to 50 kg.
• Height range .75 meters
• Power requirement 100 Watts
• Design Requirements
• Circular Shape
• Height 45 inches (1 meter)
• Diameter 45 inches

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Design Challenges

• Raising/Lowering Mechanism
• Electrical or Mechanical?
• Ergonomics Issues
• Safety Compliance
• JPMA Standards
• Pinch Point
• Storing the raising/lowering mechanism away from
  infant