Timed Candle Holder

For my Design For Manufacturing class, my teams final project was to create a product designed for mass manufacturing. We decided to make a candle holder that automatically extinguishes a candle after a set amount of time. To do this we brainstormed the general idea then created a rough design. From that rough design we applied manufacturing and assembly principles and analysis to improve quality and decrease cost which ended at our final product. This final product is designed to be fully manufacturable using as few different methods as materials allow, while still remaining simple and quick to assemble.

In this project, I learned how to design components for standard manufacturing methods, how to properly tolerance assemblies, how to make products easier to assemble, how to decrease manufacturing costs. I also greatly improved my CAD skills including creating fully dimensioned and tolerance engineering drawings. I am very proud of the manufacturing and analysis I did to redesign the product over and over again to end at a highly engineered final design. I am also proud of the high quality engineering drawings I created.

The final report with engineering drawings and the final presentation are linked below. Feel free to click around and check them out.