Cost Reduction and value engineering of Whirlpool single door direct cool refrigerator

Abstract

Emerging Indian market offers more challenges and opportunities to the Indian as well as multinational companies making products for Indian market. Sales data shows that single door direct cool refrigerators is still in large demand as compared to double door refrigerators. Utilizing more available space inside refrigerator with new innovative designs and materials at reasonable cost is the prime requirement of the industries. Present work deals with the cost reduction and design optimization of Whirlpool’s single door direct cool refrigerator. Finding new alternate materials for cabin manufacturing, eliminating the less important features, improving the material strength with new techniques with less cost of manufacturing is the aim of present work. Present work is in collaboration with Whirlpool of India Ltd., focusing on cost reduction, interior design for more appealing aesthetics and introducing unique features for more space utilization in existing dimensions of the cabin.