Portable Tarp Tent

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Table 6 provides a summary of the deployability testing results: Table 6: Deployment Time Stages Preparation Time Installation Time Total Preparation Time Deployment Time Pop-up Tent 6 hours 15 minutes 6 hours 15 minutes 12 hours 30 minutes 10 minutes Triple Threat NA 3 hours 15 minutes 3 hours 15 minutes 1 hour 30 minutes Hail Garage NA 2 months 2 months 10 minutes Portable Tarp Tent NA 7 hours 15 minutes 7 hours 15 minutes 4 hours 30 minutes Below are the steps and assumptions made in calculating the installation and deployment time of each mock-up. Pop-up Tent Preparation: The pop-up tents will be stored in the trunks of vehicle during hail season. This is an easy storage solution and can be done over a long period of time. This …show more content…

The estimated time to install one Hail Garage is 2 hours, and for 500 cars there would be 167 Hail garages installed. Assuming the construction crew working an 8 hour work day with weekends off, it would take approximately two months for the Hail Garage to be installed on a 500 car lot. Deployment: The Hail Garage is controlled by a motor that can be activated using a remote control. If 4 employees had to walk around the dealership and hit the remote for each garage, it would take an estimated 10 minutes to bring down the covers on the hail garage during inclement weather. Portable Tarp Tent Installation: The Portable Tarp Tent is rolled out from the dealership and placed behind two cars. This would take 7 hours and 15 minutes for 4 employees to place the device behind 500 cars. Deployment: The Portable Tarp Tent is wheeled out and cinched down to cover 4 cars. This would take 1 minute per device. With 4 employees covering 500 vehicles, this would take 4 hours and 30 minutes to deploy. Analysis, Limitations, and Conclusion Material Testing …show more content…

This limited the testing in that it only tested one very simple and very idealistic car lot arrangements. The assumptions made were for what the team thought the ‘average’ lot of 500 cars would be, but many factors could change that would in turn change the time it would take to install and deploy each device, such as: the speed of the workers, arrangement of the lot, size of the lot, number of workers working, size of the car, and distance between the cars. Another assumption made that provides a limitation is the time it would take for each device to deploy and how long it would take to install/deploy each device. The times given for installation and deployment time were estimations based on the size, mechanics and method of each device. This timing could change for the final prototype, and thus the timing is a very general estimation of how long each mock-up would take to deploy. Conclusions Although the deployment testing is an estimation of time, the timing of each devices’ installation and deployment time are very distinct from each other, helping us determine the strengths and weakness of each device in installation and deployment

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