Design And Fabrication Of An Automatic Clothe Folding Machine

Description

ABSTRACT

The scope of this study focuses the designing and developing a Clothes Folding Machine as an idea for final year project. Nowadays, housewives are busy with other tasks and have no time to complete just a simple folding. They also need to take care of children especially babies. Then, a busy women and men also do not have much time to fold their clothes. This will cause major stress as they realise their unfolded clothes at home. Packaging are very important in the industry of packing activities. Currently, many clothing markets do not have sufficient folding machines. This is because of the market’s expenses cannot be wasted on machines and employees have to manually fold the clothes. Thus, this production of Clothes Folding Machine helps to fabricate a machine that provides an ideal folding machine for users who are unable to manage their clothes due to works and surroundings factors. Other than that, this project used electronic components such as arduino, servo motor, circuit and others. Besides, this folding machine is fully automatic where users place the t-shirt on the board, press the start switch and within fraction of seconds the t-shirt will get folded. Moreover, this project will definitely be a helpful hand to the working women where at the same time, it saves energy, time and money. Last but not least, Clothes Folding Machine was expected to be prepared with low prices which affordable to all generations and friendly product to customer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

APPROVAL PAGE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWELDGEMENT

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE

1.0      INTRODUCTION

1.1      BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT

• PROBLEM STATEMENT
• RESEARCH AIM AND OBJECTIVE
• SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF RESEARCH
• SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCH
• DEFINITION OF OPERATIONAL TERMS
• PROJECT WORK ORGANISATION

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

• OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY
• REVIEW OF ELECTRIC SYSTEMS
• TYPES OF CLOTHES FOLDING

CHAPTER THREE

• METHODOLOGY

3.1     BLOCK DIAGRAM

• DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM BLOCK UNITS

3.3     FLOW CHART

3.4     FLOW CHART EXPLANATION

3.5     MATERIAL & COMPONENT SELECTION

3.6     METHOD SELECTION

3.7     FABRICATION: ASSEMBLE OF MATERIAL

CHAPTER FOUR

• RESULT
• SELECTED COMPONENTS AND MATERIAL
• ASSEMBLE COMPONENTS AND BOARD FOLDER
• BUDGET CALCULATION
• TEST RUN
• RESULT

CHAPTER FIVE

• INTRODUCTION
• CONCLUSION
• RECOMMENDATION

REFERENCES

CHAPTER ONE

1.0                                             INTRODUCTION

1.1                               BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

In modern times all the sophisticated electrical and electronic equipment is used daily. Therefore, the main scope we want to introduce is to focus on the industry sector which is one of the long-standing and indirect sources of economic growth in Malaysia. In addition, with today’s ever-increasing technology, we can indirectly learn how to do things using existing technologies. Thus, we learned a single creation with many uses where we had agreed to come up with a project called a Clothes Folding Machine. Clothes Folding Machine is an automatic motor controlled clothes folding machine powered by a Arduino system. The aim of this project is to fold t-shirts merely by pressing a button. The folding machine is fully automatic where one has to place the t-shirt on the folding tray and press the button. It will then fold the t-shirt by itself. Usually, a person uses conventional method to fold the clothes which by hand folding. People nowadays have been living with tight schedule in their daily life. Household chorus despite gender discrepancy has been a burden for many. This work is a burden for many and sometimes tiring depending on the amount of clothing and number of people in a house. [1]

In addition, most of the clothes folding machine in market are either for industry use or too expensive. We are trying to build a portable automatic clothes folding machine with cheap cost to serve most people. The operation of the machine requires less manpower involvement, which is significantly useful for people who are not willing to organize their clothes. [2]

1.2                                      PROBLEM STATEMENT

Strict daily routines at work often make one have no time to do their homework. If clothes are handed over to the washing machine, folding machine will now helps to do the folding work. Currently, many small industries do not have sufficient folding machines. This is because high prices cause an industry to receive low demand and high losses. Moreover, they can save their cost, energy and time by having this clothes folding machine. At the same time, a high-tech machines such as this folding machine should fabricated which emulated the sophistication of technology from abroad. Thus a low cost and quality machine created.

1.3                            RESEARCH AIM AND OBJECTIVES

The aim of this project is to fold t-shirts merely by pressing a button. The folding machine is fully automatic where one has to place the t-shirt on the folding tray and press the button.

The objectives to the research are:

1. To fabricate a machine that provides an ideal folding machine for users who are unable to manage their clothes due to work and surrounding factors.
2. To reduce folding machine process

• To investigate the survey from respondents and identify the

1. To build and innovate a Clothes Folding Machine that can be used by every

1.4                                      RESEARCH QUESTIONS

This study will answer the following research questions:

1. Is it possible to create a folding machine that are high in quality
2. What type of material that can be used to make folding machine

• What are the possibilities of making folding machine material?

1.5                      SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF RESEARCH

The system should be programmed to fold clothes. It will operate in a semi-automated process; the users ‘only need to lay the clothes flat on the platform and the machine takes them in for folding. It should be connected to a power source. It should have folding pattern, for short-sleeve shirts.

1.6                                SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCH

The project was designed to meet the needs of folding clothes for housewives or anyone who has trouble folding clothes. Based on the survey among customers, lots of housewives were annoyed by spending much time to fold clothes. In addition to that, most of clothes folding machine in market are either for industry use or too expensive. We are trying to build a portable automatic clothes folding machine at a cheap cost to serve most people. It is not only combine the metrics from existing products but also have two folding patterns, which is more convenient and efficient.

1.7                       DEFINITION OF OPERATIONAL TERMS

• Cloth folder- This cloth folder is ideal for this invention as it is lightweight and easy to
• Switch on off- The switch is a very important component of the clothes folding machine as it switches on and off the electrical current that flows for the process of folding the shirt.
• Servo motor- Servos are controlled by sending an electrical pulse of variable width, or pulse width modulation (PWM), through the control wire.
• Arduino Uno R3- The Arduino Uno R3 is a microcontroller board based on a removable, dual-inline-package (DIP) ATmega328 AVR

.