Internship report in the company MAKE IT

• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Miguel Ângelo Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/32276
• topic: Product development; IoT; Data analysis; Image analysis; Software; Hardware

We live in an era with an increasing number of new ideas for the creation of new products. However, this raises the question of how to bring these ideas and concepts to the market. This is where we can find MAKE IT, a company that provides help in all the stages of the product development lifetime. This company can help in the phase of creating the prototype, in counseling for the best root or technologies to use, or even in the massification phase of the project. This report follows the work done in three distinct projects in this company. For each one will be described the creative processes and methodologies utilized. Two of these projects are real live cases of market-ready products. The first project presents the construction of a functional prototype, ready to begin the certification phase. It’s laboratory equipment on the factory floor. This required the construction of an interface with the user, the realization of the control structures, and the communication between the equipment and its sensor/ actuators. The second project features the construction phase of two distinct units responsible for transforming a normal water heater into a smart one. The first unit is a laboratory version with a wide gamma of sensors which allows the analysis of the system in study. To accomplish this, it’s necessary to create a fiscal unit as well as a few functions to retrieve and process the data. The second unit is a market-ready one, which means that it has the form factor and the functionalities of the finished product. It shows the construction phase alongside the methods and materials used. An analysis of the data collected with the laboratory unit it’s presented in this section with the objective of collecting information and knowledge, allowing the reduction of the number of sensors. The third and final project is divided into three smaller ones. None of these were destined for the market. Instead, they were built to allow the improvement of the internal process of the company. The first one presents the ideology used for the assembly line in a way that provides the best space management and improvement of its utilization. The second one features a timesaving and error-decreasing platform for programming the chips used in some projects. Finally, in the third one is presented a piece of equipment responsible for performing the capture and processing of printed circuit boards where it’s introduced the requisites and an analysis of some processing algorithms.