one day workshop on unmet social needs notes-22-11-2016

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A brief report/ notes on Workshop Phase – 1 “Unmet Social Needs as Drivers of Innovations” by Bhasker Vijaykumar Bhatt is licensed under

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A compilation by:

BHASKER VIJAYKUMAR BHATT

GIC-SCET Convener

22 November 2016

Idea to Product – Design Thinking Workshop

Series

Workshop Phase – 1

“Unmet Social Needs as Drivers of Innovations”

Conducted at GTU, Chandkheda

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A compilation by Prof. Bhasker V. Bhatt (www.bvbhatt.com)

One day workshop at GTU on

“Unmet Social Needs as Drivers of Innovation” (22/11/2016) at B-0, GTU Building, VGEC

Chandkheda Campus, Ahmedabad

Session I (10.18 am till 12.15 pm)

- Karmjit Bihola in initial address

o It is the Phase-1 of converting idea to products. In the upcoming time, more phases

will be initiated and need be percolated to the students of BE programmes.

- Lightening of the lamps by Sh. Anil Gupta, Dr. Rajul Gajjar, Dr N M Bhatt, Sh. J C Lilani,

Prof. Karmjit Bihola

- Sh. J C Lilani during his welcome address

o Fortunate to have Padmshri Dr. Gupta guiding all the participants

o Life of each and every citizen shall be smooth, is the task ahead of the engineers

- Dr. Gajjar felicitated Sh. Gupta with a flower bouquet and a memento

- Sh. J C Lilani welcomed Dr. N M Bhatt with flower bouquet

- Dr. N M Bhatt addressed purpose of the workshop

o Revision of the syllabus of subjects is basically performed to take care of the

ongoing trends and technology in all the branches across engineering

o GTU framed initial syllabus based on existing guidelines of the GU and other

universities in Gujarat

o In February 2013, a meeting was conducted where a principal decision was made

to improve the employability of the students by making them able to have problem

solving approach. At GTU, the system is result oriented where results are, more or

less self-evaluated. GTU need to do something different and introduced OEPs for

the first time. From Sem III onward, DE was introduced. It was introduced as a

subject through a code but intended to be learnt as a philosophy/ approach. Experts

from within the system and foreign helped in developing the curriculum of 4



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courses of DE. The Shodh-yatra is a part of DE. At present, the feedback is mixed

however, progressive year by year.

- Address by Hon’ble VC in-charge, Dr. Rajul Gajjar

o It will be a start of a new process. Thinking is to brought in to the engineering and

process. We are GTU, you are the GTU. All people in the hall have championed

the course of design engineering. We need to keep doing experimenting and keep

speeding the unknown territory. A book on projects/process on rural outfit is

documented in form of a book.

o Follow the right process.

o Quality is expected everywhere but, are we inculcating it in our students?

- Dr. Anil Gupta ([email protected])

o Presentation entitled “A teacher of thousand years”

We are not to begin something new as GTU is already doing something.

Samvedana – sukhaay – saralta – sanrachna – samadhan – santushti stages

of anything

What if all the 16000 projects remain prototypes because of BE final year

work?

Demonstrated Rahul Rastogi/ Neha Rastogi’s product to record/share ECG

– priced below 100$ “Sanket”

“There exists no door which we cannot open”

At least 10-15% project be products from prototypes created by the students

IITans are not driving the country – railways, defense, DRDO, ISRO are

run by the engineers breed of colleges in nation

Potential is tremendous in our students, we give up.

Service provision is missing – the cobbler example

Needs are changed but not the tools nor the thinking

“Just a drop of water” - as per Indian tradition, we must not waste every

single resource

200 years’ education plan of Japan



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Gujarat valley, not the Silicon Valley – develop a vision for a longer horizon

but such dreams shortens the paths of actual realization of the vision

Getting satisfied is very much factor of growth to stop

CREATING open source PUBLIC STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE

We reduce our ambitions – it is a crime that we do. Our expectations will

drive the march of excellence.

Every drop counts – every detail matters

Every student is extra-ordinary in some or the other quality. Ask students to

build team by identifying the loopholes that one are having. Friendship is at

its place. College is for learning. Overcome by Compensating your lacking

– the team should be such

No to mediocrity, no to inefficiency

Hand-pump design – identify problem in existing design

Need 2 persons – one for pumping, 1 for drinking

Flow of water is more than that is capacity of a hand to hold –

wastage

No provision for storage of water within the pump

Filter is missing

Ergonomic posture for the user

Discontinued flow

Water splash may user wet

If the water is overflowing, it should be utilized

Bucket filling will need more flow

Thinking paradox – compare and contrast – thinking the opposites

Concept of Autonomy (freedom to use) and agency (user of freedom)

“science that does not make a difference” – examples of application of

simpler scientific principles – check the logic that is followed (example –

slowing down the heating process between whistles during cooking)

Define the problem precisely so that the solutions are easy to chase for;

Inertia is the second side of the innovation coin; impatience need to be

increased in ourselves

(Example of tea leave plucking) Feel the problem of a user by passing

through the process; make students do the things so that difficulties are

experienced by the students;

Make them go through the problem (transforming samvedana)

Without actual passing through the pain, feeling of pain cannot be

generated;

No one like to work inefficiently, we don’t pay attention to the problems

faced;



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No jugaad – science dies in jugaad;

My job as a teacher is to educate you properly – tell to students;

Pain of back for the farmers of paddy crop while paddy transplantation on

a muddy ground;

Experience based observations – not completely possible at all times

however, a good mixture of observation and experience can be introduced

in the design engineering;

Challenge Gandhiji issued in the year 1929;

Session II (12.30 pm onward) Challenge

http://gyti.techpedia.in/announcement

Mahatma Gandhi's Announcement of a Design Competition, 24th July 1929 One Lakh Rupees or 7700

Pounds Prize!

Akhila Bharatiya Charkhaa Sangh Worker's Samiti has decided to organize this contest for inventors and

engineers all over the world that if they could come up with a Charkha or a Samyukta Yantra which - for

making the thread and cloth that satisfies the following criterion - shall be awarded prize money of 1 Lakh

Rupees or 7700 pounds.

The Criteria

Charkha must be light-weighted, easy to move, and it should be in such a way so as to be operated using

either hand or one's leg in a natural way in the rural cottages of India.

It must be in such a way that a lady shall be able to work with it for eight hours at a stretch without great

effort put in.

Either Charkhas must have a build to accommodate the use of a puni (used to make handspun cloth) or along

with the charkha there must be a way to handspun cloth.

On working with the charkha for eight hours at a continuous stretch - it should result in 12 to 20 numbers

of 16000 feet yarn.

The machine should be so designed such that it costs no more than Rs. 150 in producing it in India only.

The machine should be strong and well-made and with time-to-time servicing it should be capable of

running for at least 20 years without any stopping. Servicing of the machine should not cost much and every

year not more than 5% of the cost of the machine that year shall be needed for servicing.

All those taking part in this contest may, with their own input costs and expenses, send their machines to

Sabarmati Ashram before or not later than 30th October, 1930. In case the machines satisfy the criterion

mentioned - then the inventor/designer can patent it on his name to protect their rights on them. But, if they

wish to become eligible to win the prize money of the contest, then the designer shall have to transfer the

rights of the patent to Indian Charkha Sangh Council.

The Judges for the Contest shall be Khadi Pratishtan's Sri Satish Chandra Das Gupta, Bardoli Swarajya

Ashram's Technical Director Sri Lakshmidas Purushottam and Tiruchengonduu Gandhi Ashram's Director

Sri Chakravarthy Rajagopalachari. In case there is no consensus amongst the judges on the winner -



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Gandhiji's decision shall be the final one. In case of Gandhiji's absence Akhil Bharat Charkha Sangh Mantri

Sri Shankar Laal Banker shall be the final decision-maker.

All questions and queries may be addressed to Mantri, Akhil Bharat Charkha Sangh, Mirzapur, and

Ahmedabad."

Defining boundary conditions/ constraints will enable better designs:

- User context is the rural hutment area (designs not producing waste)

- Lifecycle – 20 years – 8 hours/day working (durability)

- Portability (within the form) & transportability (between the forms)

- Displacement (shifting)

- Easy to move yet strong (paradoxical thinking – introduces newer materials)

- Ergonomics

- Left or right hand usability (operational flexibility)

- It either produces bobbin (single function) of hand spun yarn or produces yarn rolls –

flexible – simple to complex (multi-functional) design

- Cost effectiveness

- Efficiency

- Maintenance (5% of the total cost)

- Productivity benchmarked (12 to 20 numbers of 16000 feet of yarn)

- Benchmark of the output quality along with quantity

- Benchmark of the device quality along with quantity

- Recognition (award) – vision for open source of the product

Engineering colleges are not available to support innovators through ample innovators are

existing in Gujarat;

Bring breakthrough innovation in the matured industries like steel manufacturing, cement

productions etc. aged more than 30 years; putting boundary conditions properly is a

requirement to have a breakthrough innovation; complete isolation is not all the time possible,

modification in the terms shall be allowed (being flexible);

Appreciate the work of the students/ options identified by them/ teaching a new aspect to a

teacher- it motivates innovative thinking;

Discussion on Adjustable Walker

By Miss Shalini Kumar, Class 8, Patna (Bihar)

- Form, feature and function

- Upgradability in the basic design (future scope for upgrade) possibility for adding new

features

- She only identified problem; (a need-identification ability is a skill)

- Design audit points (becoming creative while criticizing) our kids can think of

universal designs



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o Foldable

o Easy transportation (car, mobile, cycle and so on)

o Grip friction shall be offered, anti-slip, flexible (not too much)

o Allowing User height based adjustments

o Shifting

o Adjustment

o Friction

o Balancing issue – more legs/ extra support/ edge

o Children walker – balancing cum safety

o Hand pressure difference – unequal weight will disturb the equality

We are very good in analysis, very poor in implementing

(Ms. Chhaya, youngest speaker of IIM-A -12 years) application of roots of inertia (inclined pipe

for water delivery taps allowing usage by people with different heights)

Exercise of cycle (take obvious answers out of circle)

What you can do with a cycle? (apart from making people or goods move?)

- Battery charging

- Road cleaning, Swiping

- Harvesting

- Winding

- Spindle

- Juice extract from sugarcane

Working products in the campus, making ease for all the users within campus including

cleaners.

Overcoming inertia is a key to generate ideas – begin by dropping the obvious out.

A project design discussion by the professor of B J Gardi college on innovative approach for bank

slip design. Solution included an introduction of a new language along with use of colors for filling

the details.

Whistle blower technique for filing anonymous complaints.

Mushroom case (wet biomass - waste from the kitchen)

Prior art search is essential

- Patent record search

- Internet search

- Market benchmarking

- Cluster search (where manufacturer exists – a mass of users)



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- Find an expert in a field

Tasks assigned for Open Design School, GTU

- Create a bloggable website platform with information of faculty members’ expertise

information (editable by the faculty members)

- Prepare a list of instruments and specialized instruments existing in the laboratories/

workshops of the institutes affiliated to GTU

- Short-list all the prototypes and step-by-step Invite a set of practitioners once final draft of

proto-types are furnished, non-disclosure agreement, get an advice from the

experts/practitioners to go ahead with the product development

- Consolidated list of problem definition is available with GTU to be shared among all.

- Monitor a ratio of download-upload

- Create a matrix for uploaded problem statement – define the areas where help is sought to

develop the problem solution

- Cluster-wise exhibition (industries) for the quality improvement prototypes/ proof of

concept

- Define the un-met needs of the society (participants to submit before next of the workshop)

by 5th to 7th December 2016; peer ranking for three best of problem definitions

- We should do design audit of the things which have tremendous potential for improvement/

changes (projects with higher impact) output to effect ratio

- Prepare some case studies (define the process that was followed with diagrams, pictures as

available) include failure and success cases – diagnose failure cases

- Prepare a list of stories and upload online; everyone will contribute their favorite ones,

converted in to a course;

- Refer to websites of Gizmag.com, Instructables.com, Kickstarters.com (Suggested by Prof.

Upadhyay of GTU)

Do versioning of prototypes.

- Freeze the specifications and features.

- Go for another version for adding features/ functionality – not everything in a single

version.

SESSION III

How the problem is defined?

Consolidated list of projects is available with GTU. Circulated among all.

Problem definitions shall be standardized so as boundary conditions are well-defined. It will help

in formulating better solutions/ alternatives.

Not all the problems to be identified at a stretch. Need to identify problems in steps.



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- Long tail of innovation (a chart – only a few achieve, scale, a large number sell a few pieces

or in a few communities)

- Long nose of innovation: take long time to come into market (ability to present results in a

proper manner is equally important.

- Our goal is not to create monopoly but to create public good.

- Private good, community good and public good – non-rival, non-subtract-able

- We need to be a producer of knowledge

- Creation of market for merit

- Techpedia.in or techpedia.srishti.in

- Crowdsource problems and crowdsource solutions cultivate the culture

Problem definition content

- Define a specific user (profile of the user)

- Define the context (how many user potential users?)

- Whether the solution has a multi-domain application? Check and enlist in the problem

definition; potential unrelated domain shall be thought of;

- Cluster presentations shall be made (community/ industry specific);

- Incremental change in a non-domain use of a product

- Prioritize the projects focused on quality so that overall quality is improved at entrepreneur

level; publish properly and have a cluster level meeting;

- China has made a tremendous progress in terms of quality improvement – documents,

papers, projects, products

- Every student shall make a flow diagram; if not, there lies confusion in thoughts.

- Guide teams need to be multi-disciplinary

- Be liberal in giving credits

- Acknowledge the thoughts/ talks of others

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