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HOT DATE KITCHEN

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Packaged Hot Dates

Background

Hot Date Kitchen is an established startup in the food production industry that produces and sells chocolate-covered dates that are filled with spiced sunflower butter. Hot Date Kitchen requested a piece of machinery to automate the date cutting process to increase the capabilities of production volume and lower production costs.

I worked as a hardware engineer at Generate Product Development Studio to design a custom industrial date-cutting machine to automate the production of a sustainable snack with a team of 6 engineers.

The Idea

Using inspiration from multi-stage circular manufacturing machines and industrial cheese cutters, the idea for a quadrant based date cutting machine was born! The machine was designed based on the four successive stages for date cutting: loading, orienting, cutting, and unloading. 

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The Final Date Cutting Prototype

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Loading

Unloading

Orienting

Cutting

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Top View of Assembly

Top View Labeled with four stages of date cutting

Assembly Overview

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Labeled Isometric View

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Labeled View of Control Panel

Exploded View Animation

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Prototype Demonstration!

Table presentation at Generate Showcase

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