Introduction

Dried chilies are used widely in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India and also in other countries
as well. Dried chilies are mainly used in Malaysia for making chili paste for sambal making.
Sambal is sauce typically made from a variety of chili peppers and secondary ingredients such as shrimp
paste, fish, sauce, garlic, ginger, shallot, scallion, sugar, lime juice, and rice vinegar or other vinegars. Not
only that, dried chili are also used in various cooking especially along with chicken and seafoods.

Mostly, dried chili seed are removed before making chili paste or sauce, since the seeds can
influence the taste of the paste or sauce. Not only influencing the taste, chili seed are also related to
health problem, since it can cause intestine related diseases and so on.

Household appliances do not have any seed separating machine. For the seperating, people
normally boil the chillies and remove the seeds or they will use scissors and cut the dry chillies and
remove the seeds. This method will take up a lot of time to remove the seeds. Not only that, some are
willing to pay +/-RM1.00/KG to manually remove the seeds through labour which is quite expensive.

Based on my survey, there are some machine in the market that is being used to remove seeds
from dried chili, but those machine are high in volume which is not practical for household usage and is
very expensive and big.
Problem statement

Dry chilies is widely used in our country because of the high demand. It is widely used in food to
make sauce, paste and flavoring. Some chilies used are fresh chilies and dry chilies. The demand for dry
chilies is quite high because it must be dried first before made into a paste or flavoring in food.

There is a problem faced by the people when using dry chilies .This happen when separating the
chili from its seed. They will usually remove the seed by cutting it into a small pieces using scissors and
remove by using hands .The other method they will usually use is by soaking it into a hot water and let
the seed to fall down .This can take a lot of time and require man power to remove the seed because it
can cause an allergic or appendix to consumers. According to the study made by www.instah.com, there
are two allergic reactions caused by chili and chili seed, Gastrointestinal Problems and Rashes.
Gastrointestinal symptoms might occur due to consumption of chili pepper or exposure to it. Due to it a
person might have a feeling of nausea or vomiting. In worst cases one might get diarrhea too. Not only
that, chili seed also can cause rashes. Mild to severe rashes which also itch might arise due to this allergy
around mouth in most cases or whole body. Dermatitis or rash might also occur on point of touch with
the pepper. Remember not to scratch other parts of the body as it could spread too.

Stomach pain could also occur which could be either light or in rare cases severe. This will
involve a high cost due to the man power. Sometimes when removing the seed from chili, it also can
lead to skin and eye irritation. Eventhough there is a machine to remove the chili but it is bigger in size
and expensive.

The main problem is happened when separating a chilies and its seed. There is a lot of problem
and subsequences faced by household users .To solve this problem, we had discussed and modify the
current chilies seed separator which is large and used in large industry into a small chili seed separator
which is suitable for household purpose.
Ishikawa Diagram
Creative problem solving

Morphology chart

Allows visualization of design space

Gives us a sense of size

Allows us to identify potential designs

Allows us to identify and exclude incompatible alternatives

Table 4.1: Material Selection

Option 1 Option 2 Option 3

Material
Selection

Shaft

Seed
Seperator
/Filter

Body
Speed
Control
Switch

Motor

Open/
Close
Cover
4.2.1 Criteria of Design /Pugh Method

Once product planning is complete, a more complete specification has to be prepared. The product
(chili seed separator) requirements or technical characteristics and the product specification serve
as the basis for developing product concepts. Product benchmarking, brainstorming, and research
and development are sources for new product concepts. Once concepts are developed, they are
analyzed and evaluated. Cost studies and trade studies are performed. The concept selection matrix
can be used to help with this evaluation process. The concept selection matrix shown below lists
the product requirements or technical characteristics down the left side of the matrix (Table 4.2).

Table 4.2: Criteria for design concepts

Row Criteria Weights

1 Quantity 7
2 Safety 1
3 Material 9
4 Ergonomic 8
5 Company 10
Constrain
6 Process 6
7 Product Costs 2
8 Maintenance 5
9 Weight 4
10 Size 3
Evaluation Matrix

Table 4.3: Concept of selection matrix

DESIGN CONCEPTS
Criteria Weights I II III IV

Design

Quantity 7 - - -

Safety 1 + - +

Material 9 + - +

Ergonomic 8 - 0 + D

Cost 10 - + + A

T
Process 6 + 0 +
U
Product 2 - 0 0
Costs M

Maintenance 5 0 + +

Weight 4 - + -

Size 3 - 0 +

+ +3 +3 +7

- -6 -3 -2

-3 0 5
IDEA DESCRIPTION
4.3 Description of final design or solution

At the end of the research , the most suitable design for the dry chillie seed seperator based
on the concept matrix in Table 4.3 is design 3 which consist of a tumbler and a box shape body.

4.2 Advantage

Less Vibration
Safe to use
Compact shape
Speed can be controlled
Reasonable Cost
Easy to disamble
Can also be used as blender

4.3 Application

The chosen design 3 which will work as a chillie separating machine. This can be
done because the chillie will be cut by the blade and the seeds will drop through the holes
of the tumbler. Not only that, when the tumbler and shaft s removed the machine can be
used as a blender.
4.3 Product cost and maintenance

When comparing design 3 with the other design ideas. It is proven that design 3 is
much more cost effective. This is because the parts are less complicated which means it
costs less compared to the vibration motor. Design 3 is also very easy to maintain by the
user itself, this is because the parts are made to be easily disambled.

4.3 Ergonomic Factor

Design 3 is much more ergonomic compared to design 1 which uses a vibration

motor. This is because vibration can cause muscle soreness to increase. In conclusion, it is
proven that design 3 is much more better in many aspects compared to all the other designs.
5.0 Product Development Process
4.3.1 Drawing of Product and Engineering drawing

Figure 4.5: Rough Drawing/Sketch

Figure 4.6: Drawing using Autocad Inventor

Figure 4.7: Wireframe view of the prototype
Figure 4.8: Engineering Drawing
4.3.2 Problem and solutions

Table 4.4: Problem and Solutions

Part Problem Solution Design
1 Dried chili A pair of blades is placed in the
comes in many upper part of the shaft, where it
shapes and spins and cuts the dried chilis
length. How into preferred sizes. After the
are you going chilis are cut down, the seeds
to cut open the can be easily dropped.
dried chilis in
order to drop
the seeds?

2 How are you A tumbler is designed which is

going to placed in the blender where it
separate the is stationery, and the pitted
chilis and the holes on the plates is made so
seeds? that the seeds can fall easily
into the seed catcher.

3 How are you A shaft is designed which

going to attach consist of two threads, this
the rubber for threads is used to attach the
the tumbler blade at the top and the rubber
and the blade at the bottom of the tumbler.
on the shaft?

4 The friction A bearing with casing is

made by the designed which is made from
tumbler and steel to prevent the tumbler
blade will and blade from damaging the
cause damage body. Not only that, it also
to the body. prevents the shaft from
How you going wobbling since it creates a
to reduce the tight fit.
damage?
Material and Parts used

Table 3.3: Work Material

Material used Figure

Galvanised steel

Motor with 300 Watt

Blender cup ( 1 Litre)

Shaft

Bearing
Stainless steel tumbler

Variable resistor

On / off swich button

4.3.3 Component Detailing

Assembly Name : Dry Chilie Seed Separator

Part Count : 10
Total Cost : RM174.00

Table 4.5: Bill Of Material

Part Part Unit

Description Qty Units Picture Cost
# Name Cost
1 Shaft To connect 1 each RM50.00
the plate RM50.00
and blade
to the body

2 Blade Blade is 1 each RM8.00 RM8.00

used to cut
the chillie
into small
pieces
3 Base Hold the 1 each RM30.00
A/C motor RM30.00
and also
protects
the motor.
4 Body Body is used 1 each RM20.00
to hold the RM20.00
chilie and
the
components

5 Bearing Prevents 1 each RM19.00

the shaft RM19.00
from
wobbling

6 Tumbler This 1 each RM15.00

seperates RM15.00
the seeds
and hold
the dry
chillies
7 Variable This will 1 each RM RM25.00
Resistor control the 25.00
speed of
the motor

8 Hinge This is used

to hold the
cover
below,
which 1 each RM 1.00
RM1.00
allows easy
acess to the
blender
motor

9 Rubber This is used

Damper to reduce
the 1 pack RM 2.00 RM 2.00
vibration in
the
machine
10 Screws, This is used 1 set RM 4.00 RM 4.00
rivets to hold the
and bolts body and
other parts
in place
Total 10 RM174.00
3.3 Gantt Chart
Table 3.2: Gantt Chart

WEEK

ACTIVITY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Students Discussion
with lecturer

Research about
problems faced by
humans

Generate ideas for

Product

Choose Suitable idea

Start Drafting Report

Completion of report

Submission of Report

Preparation for
presentation and
completion of project

PLAN

ACTUAL
 CONCLUSION

There is a problem faced by household users when separating dry chillie seeds.Their main problem
is that the chillie seeds causes allergic raction when removing using bare hands and it also
consumes too much time to remove these chillie seeds. Eventhough there is a chillie separating
machine in the market, but that is used for conventional purposes and is not practical for household
usage.

To solve this problem, we had discussed and modify the current chilies seed separator
which is large and used in large industry into a small chili seed separator which is suitable for
household purposes.

We hope that our design will be able to solve the problems faced by household users. We
designed a machine with a smaller scale for household usage and application and separate dry
chilli seeds much faster and efficient, comparable to manual method, where they use scissors and
sieve to separate seeds. While some people send their dry chilies to labours to separate the seeds.
We are also considering new designs in order to improve the output and the efficiency of the
machine for the better purpose and usage.