A

PREOJECT
REPORT ON
SOLAR IRONING CART

(Based on AICTE Model curriculum)

[KMBN152]
ON THE SUBJECT
OF
DESIGN THINKING

Submitted
TO
Mr. Dinesh Kumar Singh Sir
(Head of the Department)
In partial fulfilment of the degree
Of
MASTER OF BUSSINESS ADMINISTRATION
1st SEM
Under the Guidance of
DR. ROSHAN SHEIKH
Faculty of department of business administration
Submitted
By
GAMAN PRATAP SINGH
(MBA-1st SEM)

Aligarh College of Engineering and Technology

ALIGARH-202001
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my special thanks to gratitude to my teacher, Dr. Roshan Sheikh Sir, who
gave me the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project file on IT skills, which helped me in
doing a lot of research and I came to know about so many new things about computers and their
basis knowledge on it. I came out to know about the knowledge of word, excel and PowerPoint
which is very important part of the computers now days.

Secondly I would like to thank my friends who help me a lot in finalizing this project within the
limited time frame.

GAMAN PRATAP SINGH

MBA 1ST SEMESTER

Aligarh college of engineering & Technology

Aligarh-202001
 ABSTRACT

Due to technology advancement and population & explosion, the world’s demand for energy has
a rapid growth. So a renewable energy source that is cost-effictive, reliable and everlasting must
be opted to meet the future energy demands. There are many renewable energy sources of which
solar energy is free of cost. It is also suitable for long-term issues. Due to energy’s high demand,
the solar industry is developing all over world. Many other energy sources like fossil fuel are
expensive and also have limited applications. It has become a tool to sustain the underprivileged
people’s life. It also has a great part in developing in the economic status of various countries.
Solar industry is the best energy source than other energy sources and a solution to meet the
future energy demand as it has various benefits. The various benefits include capacity, cost-
effectiveness, accessibility, availability and efficiency.
 1.INTRODUCTION:
India uses the solar power more than other renewable resources and India has high solar
ionization. Solar energy is a renewable energy source, maintaince cost is low, diverse
application, and electricity bill gets reduced through its usage and it also helps in technology
development.
Solar energy has various residential applications which includes solar heating for swimming for
swimming pool, solar powered ventilation fans, solar house heating, solar water heater, charging
batteries through solar power, solar powered pumped and soon. Adoption of renewable solar
energy has various environment advantages also. It reduces pollution, it is clean source, reduces
the usage of water, helps to fight the climate changes, reduces non-renewable energy dependence
and improves health of humans in long term.

COAL IRON
There could be 100 lakhs (10 million) ironing carts in India and each burn about 5+ kg of
charcoal every day. That’s about 5 crores (50 million) kg of charcoal burnt every day. Imagine
the size of damage it does to mother nature. So, I have designed an ironing cart, which use solar
panels to power a stream iron box. The ironing cart comprises of solar panels as roof, power
transformer power controller, tall tubular battery and steam iron box. The significant benefits of
this innovation is that it eliminates the need of charcoal for ironing clothes. Thus, saving trees,
stopping deforestation, controlling pollution and preventing environment damage. Making use of
renewal energy is the aim of this innovation.
 IDEA INSPIRATION

In my neighborhood, there are six ironing carts, which use charcoal and throw the burnt charcoal
away with the garbage. It definitely made me think about the number of ironing carts in India,
the amount of charcoal burnt and the damage it does to the land, water, air and environment. So,
I researched for a viable solution and found that using solar power can effectively substitute the
use of charcoal to heat an iron box. Making use of the renewable energy is the aim of my
innovation.
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
1. To assets the solar devices used by the vendors.
2. To examine the most popular device among the vendors.
3. To know the troubles encountered by the vendors while using the device.
4. To design the solar powered device and evaluate its performance.
 LIMINITATION OF THE STUDY

1. Due to time constraints study was limited only to the household level of Coimbatore city.
2. Household living in their own residents were surveyed for data collection.
3. As the interview schedule was adopted to collect the data, respondents may be biased to
certain questions.
DESIGN THINKING:
Design Thinking is a methodology that designers use to brainstorm and solve complex problems
related to designing and design engineering. It is also beneficial for designers to find innovative,
desirable and never thought before solution for customers and clients.

Design thinking is used extensively in the area of healthcare and wellness, agriculture, food,
security, education, financial services, and environment sustainability, to name a few.
Design thinking has helped in the digital space, contributed to the development of physical
products, spread social innovation and much more.
The Iterative design process help the designers to involve clients and customers in meaningful
ways. It is not just a strategy to come up with feasible solution to a problem, but also a method to
think of unimaginable solutions and then try to make them not just feasible.

Design thinking is a blend of logic, powerful imagination, systematic reasoning and intuition to
bring to the table of ideas that promise to solve the problems of the clients with desirable
outcome. It helps to bring creativity with business insights.
FEATUTURES OF DESIGN THINKING:
Problems require multidimensional solution. Design thinking helps in this regard. It not only
assists a professional to come up with a solution, but is also helps the organization to gain a
competitive edge over its rivals. Following are the benefits conferred by design thinking

 Finding simplicity in complexities.

 Having a beautiful and aesthetically appealing product.
 Improving client’s and user’s quality of experience.
 Creating innovative, feasible, and viable solution to real world problems.
 Addressing the actual requirements of the end users.

Most of the challenges in the world do not get solved because people trying to address those
problems focus too much in the problem statement. At other times, the problem statement is
overloaded and there is too much stress to find a solution.
USE OF DESIGN THINING:

The basic principle of design thinking is that innovative can be disciplined. Innovation is not an
elusive entity that only a few genius people can experience. It is rather, a practice that can be
systematically approached by a set of practical and meticulous tool, methodologies and
framework.

Design thinking helps people of every profession to arrive at a solution in a planned, organized,
and systematic manner. The steps-by-step process helps to create solutions with both the problem
statement and the required solution in mind.
 DESIGN THINKING PROCESS INVOLVES THE FOLLOWING 5 STEPS:
 Empathy
 Problem Definition
 Ideation/Definition
 Prototype
 Testing
STAGE 1: EMPATHY
This step involves putting ourselves into the shoes of the customer or the end user of our
solution. We need to understand the problem faced by the customer and we, as design thinkers,
need to empathize with the customer. This step is carried out in the form of requirement
gathering, which involves interviews and sometimes, even field visits. This step involves the
process of analysis of how an individual feel when he/she is going through such a situation.

With reference to the above content, the practical approaches and interactions were made in
order to understand the problems faced by the peoples. They are prone to different types of
diseases and often
STAGE 2: PROBLEM DEFINITION
In the earlier stage we came to know the problem of the charcoal iron that they can produce
smoke and make pollution.
The next stage is Problem Definition which is meant to define the problem, what it is about? and
how we can deal with problem? It is important to understand the problem of the customer ad
necessary to collect details regarding the problem of the customers so that a clear picture comes
to our mind and know exactly what that problem is about.
Sometime the problem can be complex or the statement is unclear in our mind then a possible
step that we could do is try to break that problem into pieces.
This is where again analysis come into picture for a short while before the problem definition can
be synthesized. The points discussed from “empathize” section can be broken down into
dementary fragments to make the work easier.
Following points can be useful to break down a task into pieces:
 Look at the bigger picture: Make sure you understand what the end product/solution is
supposed to look like.
 Examine the parts of the task: Figure out step-by –step what you need to do because
it’s not going to happen through magic.
 Think about the logical order of completing the pieces: What should you do first,
second, third etc.?
 Have a plan to help you stay on track: Put the time you will spend on the project into
your schedule so that you can set aside the time fir it. Stick with this plan. A plan is only
good if you see it through.
 Complete your task early enough to have some time for a final review:
 PROBLEM STATEMENT:

Charcoal ironing is the substance created by the smelting of iron ore with charcoal. All
ironmaking blast furnace were fueled by charcoal until Abraham Darby introduced coke as a fuel
in 1970. Indian society used a coal-fuelled iron box to smooth out clothing an electric iron or a
stream iron box or a box is a tool used to press the wrinkles out of your cloths so that when you
dress up you look smart and neat.
Charcoal is expensive compared to wood. Production of charcoal is more time- consuming when
compared to wood, making it a non-renewable resource.
Charcoal production has also been linked to other occupational health problems, including
headache, dizziness, nose and acute eye problems, sore hands, general exhaustion, chest pains,
cough, heat burns and chest pain. Activate charcoal can cause you to choke or vomit. It can also
damage your lungs if you breathe it in by accident. Activated charcoal may cause a blockage in
your intestines if you receive several doses.
STAGE 3: THE IDEA/SOLUTION
After understanding about the problem of the customer and defining the problem of the customer
the next stage is the solution of the problem or the idea that can reduce the problem up to a
certain extent and could be one of the possible solution of the problem.

ALL ABOUT PRODUCT:

“PORTABLE SOLAR IRON BOX” new modern technique which decreases the power
consumption and it is eco-friendly. It absorbs the solar energy and stores the solar energy and
stores the energy in the battery. The energy stored in the battery is used to run the iron box and
other equipment’s. It is portable and mostly very use full for street venders. Iron box is box are
mostly used in our day to day life. But due to high consumption power by electric iron box, most
of them scared to use. On other side coal type iron box producing toxic gases which causes
health issues. To assess the solar devices used by the household to examine the most popular
device among the household to know the trouble encountered by the household while using the
device. Our device is going to work on a simple mechanism. Solar powered iron box is linked
with solar panel. DC electricity is generated when the sunlight falls on solar panels. The
electricity charges the in-build battery in solar powered iron box. When the battery filled with
charge, it powers the connected electrical load DC fan, light, TV and phone charging. This give
the energy consumption for the solar powered device and it makes less energy consumption.
STAGE 4: PRODUCT INSIGHT/PROTOTYPE:

LOGO:

DEFINITION: A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product build to test a

concept or process. It is a term used in a variety of context, including semantics, design,
electronics, and software programming. A prototype is generally used to evaluate a new design
to enhance precision by system analysts and user. Prototyping serves to provide specification for
a real, working system rather than a theoretical one. In some design workflow models, creating a
prototype (a process sometimes called materialization) is the step between the formalization and
the evaluation of an idea.
 CONSTRUCTION OF IRON BOX:
Solar powered iron box was developed for vendors with battery backup. For creating solar power
iron box experts were enquired.
Material required for constructing solar powered iron box are mentioned below:
o Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene plastic make for handle
o Non-stick coated, aluminum casting plate for heat.
o (1.44.2) Aluminum coil for heating
o 120watts heating up coil
o 12 V DC and 10 Ampere current flow
o (2×2.5sqmm) cable used
o Crocodile connector used for supply through battery
o 5mm led (red) for indication purpose is used.
STAGE 5: TESTING AND FUTURE SCOPE:
After knowing all this, the next step is to test the product. Testing involves the practical aspects
of the products, checking for its working and performance of the service and coming up with
solution to solve to solve the problems arising which have been examined from the results after
using the service for few times.
The solar-powered iron box was efficient in ironing the clothes and helped homemakers & iron
men to acquire crease-free clothes. Solar powered iron box not only uses solar energy which is
available in nature free of cost but also reduces the consumption of energy. The present study
may initiate vendors in adopting solar devices for day to day activates and encouraging them to
use new and renewable sources of energy to protect our environment.