Designing And Performance Testing Of Meatball Forming Machine

摘要

Indonesia is a country that is famous with variety of culinaries, one of them is meatballs. Meatballs are processed foods from beef with a mixture of tapioca flour in a round shape. Meatballs can be found easily as foodstreet or even restaurant's menu. In producing the meatballs, manual method is still adopted which is in forming the meatballs into a round ball shape by using hands which is not hygienic and also takes a long time. So this study adopted design and experiment method, which is started by designing the meatball forming machine which is good in strength, durability, and safety, and also approriate with the security standards and scientific principles of a product design, then followed by doing experiment to find the best parameters and then performance testing. The testing process was done by analyzing the calculations of the meatball forming machine in order to obtain test performance that meets the engine criteria, in accordance with the design results. So it will get a machine with a more satisfying production capacity. Meatball forming machine with performance testing can accommodate meatball dough with a larger capacity, and is able to produce a more perfect meatballs using 3 blades that can be replaced as desired with the results of cutting on a knife in length of 22 mm, the meatballs can produce 232 item/minute, and 2 meatballs with knife length of 27 mm which is able to produce 189 item/minute, while 3 meatballs with 35 mm meatballs can produce 146 item/minute.