Innovative Milk Foamer: Product Development
2010 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This report presents the primary development process of an innovative milk foamer. The project is structured as the primary development process that is used at Electrolux Floor Care and Small Appliances AB, Global Primary Development and Innovation department in Stockholm, Sweden. The aim was to develop a milk foamer with innovative solutions to provide Electrolux with a unique product. The objective was to create a product that highly meets customer requirements and in the same time is feasible to develop into a selling product. All the aspects regarding a consumer product had to be considered. To create innovative solutions thorough investigations of the physics behind foaming and foam are studied and documented. The difference in foam quality when using different ways of foaming is documented and possible explanations is discussed. The primary development process range from pre-study and customer research to designing prototypes and verifications. Most of the report deals with standalone solutions but there is also a part of the report that deals with integrated solutions and cooperating solutions that would be used together with espresso machines. The result is a variety of concepts and four fully working standalone prototypes. Two prototypes are further developed and are highly interesting to Electrolux.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2010. , p. 137
Keywords [en]
innovative, milk, foamer, milk frother, milk foamer, capuccino, cafe latte, product development, stefan axelsson, electrolux
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-58870ISRN: LIU-IEI-TEK-A--10/00863--SEOAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-58870DiVA, id: diva2:346273
Presentation
, Campus Valla, Linköping
Uppsok
Technology
Supervisors
Examiners
2010-10-042010-08-312010-10-04Bibliographically approved