Trunki - product design: testing and modification

Designing products that meet rigorous safety standards is an increasingly important skill – especially when it comes to products used by children. Trunki, the child’s pull along suitcase, may have failed the BBC Dragon’s Den test, but thanks to further testing and modification it’s now taking the world by storm. We film with the product designer and at one of the world’s leading test centres, to find out about the different tests carried out on children’s products, why calibrating equipment is so important and how clever design reduced costs and time to market. Includes footage of rotational and injection moulding and mechanical and physical tests.

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Subject(s)Design and technology
Age14-16, 16-19
Published2009
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Shelf reference658.6572 TRU
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/x8frb

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