Design Refrigerator by Using the Principle of Man-Machine Engineering

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With the development of society, the requirements for refrigerator design are increased. The requirements include interior and exterior factors, such as: materials, manufacture technology, performance, humanities and environmental factors. It is indicated that the future trends of refrigerator design are Concurrent design, Environmentally Conscious Design and Ergonomics in this paper. Concurrent design has

Been integrated many new technologies, new modes and new ideas. By abstracted，Concurrent design has been developed to be a new design method. It is mainly considered by Environmentally Conscious Design that the influence of products to human and environment is considered both in

Using and in recycling phase. Based on user and designed for user that is Ergonomics main ideas.

1. The illustration of Refrigerator
The small refrigerator have been developed and widely used by the people in the 20th century, thinking as the mankind of 100 technological achievements. Refrigerator is refrigeration technology in the service of humankind, we can say that Refrigerators which is one of the greatest achievements is a 20th-century technology services for human life. Refrigerator has been 80 years of development which is dated from 1918 and actually relied on technological progress to promote to improve and enhance the refrigerator. In the process design is a key role.
The Refrigerator developed which contained three stages. The first phase is to improve the quality and reliability of refrigerators. The stage used for a few years time and solved the mass production of refrigerators quality issue and dropped the realization of the Reworks below 2% and had maked the Life of the refrigerators assurance over 20 years .The second stage is to solved the marketing, sales, the actual economies of scale and lower costs. At the end the most of the people can buy the refrigerator.

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The third stage focus on the competition of the product design. In China the manufacturers of refrigerators have completely developed in a few times the first and second stages to solve realize the scale of production and marketing.

The international development history of the refrigerator shows that refrigerator should contained three stages which is the competition of quality, the competition of price; the competition of image. The competitive image of Refrigerator is a powerful weapon for the company. In our country the quality of refrigerators had qualified and the price of refrigerators reduced to a meager profit price level. In the past the consumers select refrigerator that rule is the first price, second function, aesthetics, the third appearance, but now into the first appearance, the second function, third price. The Beauty is closely related with the times. Different consumers have different aesthetic standards at different times. From the development of an integrated history, the beautiful image of refrigerators experienced the following stages: The rich consumers who are the early popularity to become prefer flowery type, reflecting the upstarts who want to show that the psychological well-off. When the refrigerators get an access to period, the consumers selected the practical refrigerators and required the refrigerator had a generous appearance. When the refrigerator is universal to every household, some new products need to be replaced. Some people want to buy refrigerator which is modeling and personality color. After experienced individual consumers began to return to nature and recognize that simple is beautiful, looking for natural product. Firstly the designer should know the consumer’s psychology, the needs and significant potential demand of the market. This is the basis design rule. Design and art is only a means, the designer show the real demand through a variety of means.

2. Human-centered Do a good job in human-machine interface design Refrigerator

Refrigerator design should consider the requirements of users. In the center of People the handle, electrical buttons, knobs, refrigerator shape, and function components of the refrigerator are required, below the refrigerator design relates to the content of exploration and studying the abroad research and development direction.
2.2 Designing the display devices
The refrigerator of Computer-controlled contains the digital display, liquid crystal display. We design the digital display and control LCD screen which are installed outside decorative plates to enhance the effects, and should increase the reflective LCD screen in the back plate.

2.3 Designing the electronic control

In addition to complying with electronic control part of security requirements, but we also design a certain degree of control responses which make users feeling that the operation be accepted.

2.4 The high of refrigerator

The general refrigerator height of the foreign desk is 850mm and 630mm. we put the refrigerator which high is 630mm under the kitchen′cleaner to save space. In that high many people do not heat to pick things. Toshiba has been considered the design center for the refrigerator vegetable drawer.

2.5 Combining with function model

In the 1998′s Paris exhibition of home appliances, some companies designed some shape of the lamps, and achieved breakthroughs. Beyond the ordinary functions such as lighting DEKO appearance of a fish which is very true to life. Marking company’s lights appearance is designed as a specially microphone, fillet and gentle nature; Lg′s the new refrigerator LG is designed the handle as the head of two fish and is very beautiful. 2.7 storage space for food

The sizes of packaging are standard at home and abroad, such as UBC, co cola bottle. We use standard data in the design of the packaging which will bring convenience to save storage space. The design of the cafeteria

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spacing should be reliable and compact streak in the position should have adequate access to the storage space， we can not open a drawer in the small in order to access food. We design the cafeteria-and rotary combination refrigerator which will be enable more convenient and practical

3. Focus on the use of research to ensure that products that are suitable for users

In refrigerator design designers often overlook the problem of inadequate and users are summarized described some foreign worth Stephen things.

3.1 Nail

If people do not have nail, we can not easily grasp objects and operate things. The length of nail directly affects people's ability to operate. If we should bend nail to operate, it will cause inconvenience and inflexible. Therefore, the electrical knob of the refrigerator should be designed account the length of the nail.

3.2 Compatibility

If the Electric knob clockwise rotation is designed to be increased with the clockwise rotation and to be reduced with the counterclockwise rotation, the user will have no confusion.

3.3 The name and the legend of pictures

Picture shows a clear interface electrical control, symbols, logos meaning accurate, and should not have two meanings and become gradually standard. We use the graphic symbols and instructions in the products in order to export, and we should provide a global common language. Currently symbols and graphics is the International Standards and some Organization work on the draft, some country has announced use. Moreover, different national standards and industry department has announced a number of products, graphics, symbols instructions standards.

The names mean the functional characteristics of product. A good name is easy to understand and reduce the trouble of mistakes and a bad name is easy to misunderstand and may easily endanger for users.

3.4 The choice of color contrast

The color contrast, brightness of products which is used in the formula is a main factor. We should avoid to printing on a white background in gray font, or writing the word in a white plastic directly, Otherwise users is difficult to see in the backlight. We should makes text more easy to read.

3.5 The Sight

Good view of the head design products to We should understand the users′ the location and operation of the institutions frequently and design a good view of the head .Such as buttons and switches should be designed in the comfort of sight range.

3.6 The Room of operation

Refrigerator room is very important to users. Shelving, the boxes of fruit and vegetables is facilitate safe and is reliably take off from a drawer. If the Refrigerator had seted up, the users open the door with no position limit.

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Using the principle of Man-Machine Engineering to riposted products, we will produce high value-added products and ensure that more comfortable and safer, maximize users. If a designer researches the need and use of the peoples before the design, the product will be closer to customer demand and less improving. If we design products using the principle of Man-Machine Engineering, it will help us to open up markets at home and abroad.

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