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Product Dissection
In order to find key aspects of the toothbrush many tests were placed upon it to find out how it performs. The noise level was measured to be 68 db which was average among the toothbrushes. Also the battery life was tested to find out how long the toothbrush would last under cleaning status. The test showed that the battery life on the toothbrush was 104.89 days. The battery life of the toothbrush is average but has room for improvement. Lastly in the testing process we priced the parts inside the toothbrush to find the overall cost of the toothbrush through production. The end price of producing one of these toothbrushes was $2.44.
The dissection of the toothbrush began by separating the toothbrush into its main components by the use of force: the outside protective shell, the inside moving components and the power supply components. To dissect the toothbrush into these main components the toothbrush was first split in half by the use of a hacksaw, hammer, and chisel. Once that was completed the inside moving parts and the power supply parts were removed from the shell. Then dissection continued by breaking down the moving parts into individual parts that all combined to produce the overall working toothbrush action. The power supply parts were then broken down further to the bare batteries and the circuit connecting pieces.
Once dissection was completed the parts of the toothbrush were photographed, weighed and measured. Once that was completed the parts were placed into a table that displayed the position of the part in the toothbrush, the operation it performed in making the toothbrush work, and its physical statistics.