Kitchen Process Design
A healthy snacks kitchen needed a product to reduce pains in manufacturing
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The challenge from LOBA Corporation was an issue of ergonomics and material science. The client prepares Venezuelan tequeños using dense, non-traditional doughs made from yucca and plantain. This firm, unyielding material required significant manual force to work, resulting in debilitating wrist pain and slow production times.
The solution was a tool engineered to overcome the material's properties. We designed a manual press focused on a single, critical variable: the lever ratio. The objective was to maximize mechanical advantage, allowing the user to exert significant force with minimal physical effort, directly alleviating the wrist pain central to the client's problem. Functionality in a commercial kitchen dictated a secondary constraint: rapid, sanitary disassembly. The final design can be taken apart even while wearing gloves.
Prototyping was conducted remotely using small-batch SLA 3D printing for rapid iteration. The impact on the client's workflow was transformative. As LOBA Corporation stated, "He completely changed my workflow, reducing total manufacturing time by hours. This project has truly changed my life."
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