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Bridging the gap between idea, designing and production in Cameroon with SolidWorks. Increasing cost efficiency in the production process and thereby leading to a low cost of final product. 

Using CAD (Computer Aided Design) software program to bridge the gap between ideation, designing and manufacturing. The CAD (SolidWorks) let us design, analyse, evaluate and simulate a machine or part or a mechanism.

Most machines are assemblies which are made up of parts. Parts are first created and evaluated, then after they are assembled to form an assembly. the assembly is the simulate to estimate it functionality. The best thing is that all this is done in a computer saving wastage of materials and or other resources.

8 out of 10 machines manufactured by local manufacturer don't serve their intended purpose and in addition the cost of end product is expensive due to wastage of materials and time. As most of owners of the set machine will spend much money for repairing the machine. Thereby, leading to financial crises.

2 in 10 students repeat their final year at the university level because their end of year project was poorly done. 5 out of those 10 students get poor greats  which affects them in their job search.

The solution I'm addressing server students and adult from my local community. This solution will help owners of local workshops to manufacture machines with longer life span and not only that but also please the customers i.e. customer satisfaction. At the level of the buyer they will purchase these machines at a cheaper rate. Being it that most of the buyers buy machines and end up repairing the machine other than using them

Student will also benefit as they will be able put down their idea in to become a design and then manufacturing. As most of them are not well train on how to use CAD programs.

Verbal communication with some member of the population some of which include students, local workshop owners and grinding mills owner. Some of them where open to the idea especially the students. As for the local workshop owners some were sceptical and some bought the idea. Almost all the grinding mill owner bought the idea. 

The solution addresses economic crises in my community as manufactured machines / parts/ equipment are too expensive due to the fact that manufacturers waste a lot materials during production and are now trying to balance everything in the selling prize.  In addition, most of these machine causes the owners to spent lots and lots of money to repair some of these machine because the are not functioning properly. This might lead to conflict between the manufacturer and his/her client.

This solution will solve this issues.

The solution is at this stage because service have been rendered to a few key targeted members of my community. Feedback is been collected from them to proceed with the solution growth.

SolidWorks is a CAD (Computer Aided Design) software. About 70% of innovative companies use SolidWorks.

With this software one can design and simulate a mechanism, machines, appliances and more i.e. converting an idea in to a design which can then be produce thereafter.

This program permit one design 3D (3 dimension) parts and interns use the various parts to build up an assembly. The assembly can then be convert in to 2D (2 dimension). 

Parts can be analyse to see possible failures which might occur during the life span of the part in a mechanism. These failures can be mitigated to avoided some of the failures. In the case of an assembly, it is being simulated to analyse to evaluate the functionality. In addition cost of production can be calculated using this software.

In the 2D drawing of a part or an assembly are the various dimensions tolerances, constraints etc. that are needed for the production of the part or assembly.

I currently work with 10 students with their end of year project and in addition, I'm working with 3 local workshop.

In the future I plant to serve 30 students and 11 local workshop. 

Our goals is to bridge the gap between the western world  and Cameroon in particular and Africa as a whole, by improving on machine quality and furthermore the cost of purchasing these products.

Verbal communication with previous consumers of our products and the number of referrers are getting tells us exactly how far we have gone and what we have to do better.

Finances is a major setback as I need to buy good computers to be able to run recent version of the SolidWorks. In the same light, manufacturing of things will require material and machines to manufacturing of products. In addition, people that come for services are final year students who just gives not up to enough money for their work.

Due to the educational system in my country getting people who are verse technically in using manufacturing and SolidWorks software is difficult.

Setting up a start-up in my country is very difficult as the government taxes are very high which will lead to a setback.

Local manufacturers are very reluctant to adopt the idea of using software to facilitate their production.

Working part time at my father's local manufacturing workshop and also studying Mechanical Engineering at the university have knowledge in manufacturing and designing. In addition, I underwent internship in other establish (manufacturing establishment). To say the truth I currently work alone and still looking for team members to aided in this endeavour.

For now  there is just one partnership is with  a local workshop. The partnership relationship is such that I design a machine or part for them and out site jobs I design for some people I get to use their workshop to produce the machine or part.