Prototype Design Of Chicken Meat Cutting Tool

Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Pelita Harapan, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: laurence.fti@uph.edu

Abstract

The main thing the chicken skewers owners do is cut the meat into blocks. However, to produce a cubical meat shape is not an easy task and takes a long time. Therefore, it is necessary to design a tool to help the chicken skewers business owner to cut the chicken breast faster. The purpose of this research was to design an ergonomically chicken meat cutting tool to produce cubical chicken meat in large quantities so that the work can be completed in a shorter time. The planning and product development stage of this research was based on Ulrich and Eppinger steps from phases 0 through 4. After that, a prototype evaluation was performed. The conclusion of this research was that the tool successfully worked as the design intended. The maximum cutting yield is 225 pieces, 15 times faster, suitable for half-frozen chicken meat, and the evaluation results show a good performance rating. Overall, most of the respondents (87.5%) were pleased with this tools, shown by 57.5% choose a smiling face and 30% show a big smiling face as their feeling of satisfaction after trying the gamma prototype.