The aim of the paper was to ‘Design and Development of Automatic Dosa Maker for Indian Households’ by considering cost, usability, safety, easy handling and hygiene. Dosa is an unavoidable food item in most of the South Indian households.
In this paper, research has been conducted around rural areas of Kerala, by asking several questions to understand the requirements and difficulties of the rural people for making dosa. During the research some simple traditional dosa making method were studied and adopted for concept selection and mechanism. Market study was conducted to understand the current dosa making methods, and several dosa making machines were studied in this market study. Doodles and five concepts were created by considering Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Product Design Specification (PDS). One concept was selected by weighted ranking method. This selected product was further modified for improvements. The final design was modelled using MDF sheet and it consist several mechanism. User validation was done and feedback from the users was positive and satisfactory.
Automatic Dosa Maker, Aesthetics, Compact
