-People have children complaining that they cannot have normal life like go

grocery shopping, casual walking with children, cooking and traveling etc.

-Grocery shopping is one particularly hard time for parents

-Most families go grocery shopping once a week with their children

For instance, there are 2-3 trolleys with children seat and 90 trolleys in ALDI

-The average children per family in Ireland is 2.03 (2008) (Irish examiner)

-In most trolleys, there is only one baby seat or extremely uncomfortable one

for children

Background Justification

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Voice of the customers

• Observations

• Parents requirements:- easy- children’s safety- speed

• Day in the life

• Past problems: - two or more babies but only one children seat- parents have to lift children in and out the trolley- seat and trolley not child friendly (ergonomic)- strap on children seat not effective

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Design process

• Children seat position

• Children’s access to trolley

Front/ rear of the trolley

Steps

Standing board

• Position of handle

• Children activity centre, keep children occupy

• Trolley into a nested position

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Design process

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Handle for pulling trolley easier

Ergonomic back

Steps

Table for children playing their own toys

Novel aspects

• Trolley handle can be flip down use as steps

• Children can sit into the children seat with the help of parent,

less pain for parent

• Children take the ownership of getting into trolley, more

independent

• Children seat is more comfortable, child friendly

• Extra spaces on handle, have pockets and room for

children playing their own toys and parent putting bags

• The handles in the front of trolley make it easy pulling trolley

from another side

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Proof of concept- old shopping experience

Proof of concept- new shopping experience

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Manufacturing Viability

• Steel on flat surface (jig fixture)

• Pins located the main locations, spot welding all the

joints

• Positive and negative tools crunch steels into right shape

• Plastic(polypropylene) cover the top (injection molding

covering)