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This Device Made by Pakistani Students Can Transform the Local Auto Industry

The automobile industry will be getting a major step up thanks to three students from Iqra University. The students have developed an Automated Mirror Testing Machine.

Syed Talib Naqvi, Muhammad Shamshirur Rehman, and Abu Hurairah Mehboob, students of electrical engineering, have created a mechanical deviceĀ in a matter of months that automatically traces any problems with electronic side mirrors. Currently, the process is manual but this device can cut the time in half as well as double the manufacturing of mirrors in the automobile industry.

Later this year, the team will showcase the device at Thailandā€™s Stanford International University.

How The Idea Came About

Naqvi, while talking to media, said that he interned at a private company in 2017 that produced mirrors for automatic cars and noticed the lack of a foolproof method to quality check the mirrors whilst observing the step-by-step manufacturing process.

The mirrors have 8 to 10 components that have to be assembled and during the test, a worker rotates the mirror on its axis to manually test it. Naqvi said that the process was arduous and even then, the company was unable to locate the issues that cause the mirrors to fail. To pinpoint the issues, they had to open each component of the assembled mirror.

At times, the mirrors that passed the tests and are supplied to the car companies might malfunction in which case, they are returned to the manufacturer, who is unaware of where the fault is and these can hurt the companyā€™s image.

Having a proper testing procedure was seen an opportunity by Naqvi, who thought of a product that would not only carry out the test but also pinpoint the faults on its own, thus the Automated Mirror Testing Machine was born.

Nearly Every Part Comes From Pakistan

They made the decision to use parts built in Pakistan to create the mirror testing machine, although they could have used any of the sensors available on the market, said Naqvi. They didnā€™t use imported sensors because they were expensive.

Pakistan-made sensors used in the machine cost around PKR 1,200-1,500 and the imported ones cost around PKR 3,500, said Naqvi. The indicator which beeps and lights up when it finds the fault was imported from China because it’s not made in Pakistan.

A Lot Cheaper

Devices of this nature, that are in use in Japan and Korea, cost around PKR 2.9 million but in Pakistan, the mirror producers can buy it for 20 times less than the global market price, at PKR 150,000.

The device has both manual and automatic methods, allowing the manual mode to act as a backup in case the automatic method doesn’t work.

Via Dunya News



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