Hardware Systems Engineering (Internship at Mill Industries)
Grinder motor design, pneumatically-actuated factory test fixtures, automated sensor data collection, experimentation & analysis systems.
Mill Industries is a startup that produces consumer electronics products that tackle food waste related climate emissions.
The company provides an all-inclusive food recycling service that works by cutting down and drying any household food waste into food grounds, and sending them to farms for use as chicken feed! I worked on the following key projects:
• Designed and engineered a full-stack hardware data collection, analysis and visualization pipeline utilizing Torque Sensors, Labjack DAQ, InfluxDB and Grafana. This system was a critical component for quantitative experimentation and validating cost-saving designs that lowered manufacturing costs by up to 40% on the motor system.
• Led the design and testing process for the core grinding and drying function of our next generation product offering
• Innovated low-cost test fixtures using pneumatic actuation methods for reliable quality control in production factory
• Achieved significantly lower manufacturing and assembly costs of using DFA & DFM methods
Here are some diagrams demonstrating the mechanical components in the product.
*Photos were taking from the publically-available resources on the Mill website.
