1. Team 7 - Project 99.07 Team Members: J. M. T ate, J. A cheson, P. S ullivan, and A. A bumohor Advisor: Dr. J. Glancey Sponsor: Dr. Limin Kung

4. Mission: The purpose of our team is to design and build a means to quickly and reproducibly load a test silo without requiring extensive manpower. Approach: We will use the Total Quality Design Process, through the SpreadSheet Design Process on Microsoft Excel.

5. Academic –Dr. Limin Kung –Dr. Martin Stokes –Dr. Joseph Harrison Industrial –Mr. Chris Rhoden –Ms. Carol Myers Agricultural –Mr. Richard Morris

6. 1) Reproduce Desired Results 2) Not Physically Demanding 3) Fast Operation 4) Simple Operation for User 5) Low Cost

7. 6) Easy to Clean 7) Easy to Repair 8) Easily Transportable 9) Variable Silo Size 10) Easy to Store

8. Stokes Pneumatic Loader Stokes Front End Loader Trash Compactors Shotshell Loaders Pharmaceutical Capsule Filling Machines Soda Can Crushers Main Competitor: Stokes Pneumatic Loader

11. Functions: Compacting Devices Material Transport Container Transport Pressure and Load Sensors User-Interface Controllers

12. High-Velocity Blowing Compactor Distributed Weight Packer Rolling Compactor Hydraulic Power Press Extrusion Screw Best Practice: Pneumatic Piston

13. Bagging Lawnmower Vacuum Cleaner Two-Stage Silage Blower Multiple Ram Silage Mover Screw Feeder Best Practice: Screw Feeder

14. Case Conveyor Cola Bottling Line Cigarette Packing Apparatus Best Practice: Conveyor Belt

15. Pressure Transducer Load Cell Piezoelectric Pressure Sensors Best Practice: Piezoelectric Pressure Sensors

16. Computer Keyboard Foot Pedal Video Game Controller Push Button Best Practice: Foot Pedal

17. Pros and Cons based upon metrics and target values

18. Feeding Mechanism: Screw Force Control: Mechanical Sink Depth: Feed Stopping Switch

19. We start by installing one stopper into the minisilo. 8.25in

20. This minisilo is then locked into the sliding carriage. minisilo Sliding carriage

21. silage Cut off switch finger Downward Force Metrics Pressure per layer Change in pressure per layer Price

22. The cut off switch satisfies the proper sink distance constraint. Sink distance

23. Force: Pneumatic Piston Force Control: Valve Feeding Mechanism: Linear Reciprocating Feeder

24. Again, we start by installing one stopper into the minisilo. 8.25in Stopper

25. Minisilo Clamp

26. Metric User actions Add silage

27. The reciprocating feeder pushes the silage into the packing chamber.

28. Packer is driven by the pneumatic piston Metrics Pressure per layer Change in pressure per layer Price

29. Red marks

30. 2nd stopper is installed at the proper sink distance.

32. New approach Actual to date Detailed to next presentation Generic remainder of time Estimated budget