Salt Grinder

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The Infinity Salt Air Machine provides a highly effective treatment in as little as 3-5 minutes. Salt particles reach deep into the lungs and sinuses providing instant relief. Weighing in at just 2.5 lbs. and 7 inches tall, this personal salt machine can travel with you almost anywhere and provides salt therapy on the go whenever you need it. Use it overnight at home or when traveling for an amazing night’s sleep that clears the sinuses and lungs. 

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The Challenge

The high level goal of the project was to take Anne from idea to small batch manufacturing so she could get her salt grinder diffuser idea onto the market and start generating revenue. The key goals for her consumer product salt grinder were to make it intuitive, small/portable device with the capability to grind salt to a precise size optimal for salt therapy that could go airborne through the built in distribution system. Producing a salt grinder for salt therapy posed unique challenges. Achieving precision to grind salt into optimal micron-sized particles required advanced engineering. Executing small-batch manufacturing cost-effectively while ensuring consistent quality added complexity. Additionally, miniaturizing existing industrial salt grinding devices without compromising performance demanded innovative design and material solutions. Balancing these technical, economic, and scale constraints was critical to delivering a compact, high-quality product tailored for therapeutic use.

The Solution

• Concepting
  • We created several concepts of look and feel as well as different methodologies of achieving the desired micron particle size.
  • Identification of highest risk design elements (achieving the correct particle size consistently).
  • Creation of the functional specifications Anne was working to achieve.
• Design and Risk Reduction
  • We wanted to make sure we took the most cost effective development route so the first thing we focused on was de-risking the high risk item of achieving the correct particle size in a consumer sized/priced product. We did this through just focusing on designing the grinding chamber and then proceeded to test and iterate on this until we had a subsystem that achieved Anne’s goals.
  • Once we had a solid solution for achieving Anne’s particle size we build the rest of the system around the salt grinding chamber.
• Prototyping
  • With the full design ready we built the first prototype to determine what aspects worked well and which needed iteration.
  • After a few quick prototype iterations we arrived on a design that everyone was excited about and locked in a prototype design freeze.
• DFM and Prep for Manufacturing
  • We took the design through a thorough review to make the small updates needed for a small manufacturing run that enables us to make tooling for the sheet metal, plastic, PCB, and urethane parts.
  • We prepped the quality control checks and documentation that would be needed for a successful manufacturing run.
• Manufacturing
  • We worked with our manufacturing partners to create the individual parts and did the final assembly of the units right here at Kickr!
• Quality Control
  • We performed the detailed quality control on all units to ensure a high quality product for Anne.