Redesign of Domestic Electrical Hardware


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Creator/Artist: Anupam Gupta

Category: Product Design

Document: Diploma Project Report

Batch: 1972-1974

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  1969-1978

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. M. Chattopadhyay & Prof. G. G. Ray


Detailed Description

Redesign of Domestic Electrical Hardware- elaborating the title the first word that comes up is redesign. Redesign because a number of designs exist. Domestic implies that it is to be used exclusively at places of domicile or residency. Electrical means pertaining to electricity. Hardware originally meant “Ironmongers” products. Now they mean all products sold by a ‘Hardware’ merchant. So the problem is one of redesigning electrical equipment such as wiring equipment, plugs, sockets etc. Even a superficial examination of existing products reveals many flows which quite inexplicably exist in almost all the designs presently in the market. As the product itself exists and is extremely common place past experience reveals that the existing designs have many times failed to perform the function due to defects in design.