Development of a Space Optimized Payment Terminal
(2009) MMK920Innovation
- Abstract
- This is the report of a master thesis in Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Design at Lund Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Dresser Wayne AB in Malmö. This master thesis aims to develop and design a new compact pay terminal for use at gas stations.
Before the end of 2010 a new standard for credit card handling will be introduced in most of Europe. This new standard is called EMV and involves reading a microchip on the card instead of the magnet strip used today. The change in standard makes the old payment terminals at gas stations obsolete and Dresser Wayne need to replace all the old ones with new EMV compatible terminals.
Because of this Dresser Wayne wanted to develop a single... (More) - This is the report of a master thesis in Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Design at Lund Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Dresser Wayne AB in Malmö. This master thesis aims to develop and design a new compact pay terminal for use at gas stations.
Before the end of 2010 a new standard for credit card handling will be introduced in most of Europe. This new standard is called EMV and involves reading a microchip on the card instead of the magnet strip used today. The change in standard makes the old payment terminals at gas stations obsolete and Dresser Wayne need to replace all the old ones with new EMV compatible terminals.
Because of this Dresser Wayne wanted to develop a single pay terminal unit that meets
all customers’ specifications regarding very small pay terminals and is EMV approved. The main focus of this project has been to fit a modern, and considerably larger, pin pad, card reader, display and receipt printer into the pay terminal. Due to the EMV standard the only component that could be replaced, with a different more compact one was the printer. Finding a new printer has been absolutely crucial for the success of this project so a large part of this thesis was to find, evaluate and test a new compact printer to use in the new pay terminal.
The methodology used in finding and evaluating the printer was based on Ulrich and Eppinger’s method for screening and comparing different products and ideas. Two printers were selected and tested in the climate chamber according to the methods for testing used at Dresser Wayne.
For the concept development phase known methods of product design and development
were used. After this process one concept was chosen for further development based on a
selection process. The developing and design work was done in a CAD environment
during the final developing stage and all the desired functions of the pay terminals were incorporated into the design. Aspects of insight protection, manufacturability, view angle, sealing against water and dust, assembly and maintenance were all taken into account in the final design.
The final pay terminal concept resulted in a prototype that visualized the design and allowed the functions to be tested and evaluated.
In order to make the pay terminal ready for production more development and testing is needed. The experiences derived from the prototype are also very important when the next step in the development process is taken. (Less)
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- author
- Tunander, Anders and Sjöberg, Klas
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- organization
- course
- MMK920
- year
- 2009
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- language
- English
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- 1496244
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abstract = {{This is the report of a master thesis in Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Design at Lund Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Dresser Wayne AB in Malmö. This master thesis aims to develop and design a new compact pay terminal for use at gas stations.
Before the end of 2010 a new standard for credit card handling will be introduced in most of Europe. This new standard is called EMV and involves reading a microchip on the card instead of the magnet strip used today. The change in standard makes the old payment terminals at gas stations obsolete and Dresser Wayne need to replace all the old ones with new EMV compatible terminals.
Because of this Dresser Wayne wanted to develop a single pay terminal unit that meets
all customers’ specifications regarding very small pay terminals and is EMV approved. The main focus of this project has been to fit a modern, and considerably larger, pin pad, card reader, display and receipt printer into the pay terminal. Due to the EMV standard the only component that could be replaced, with a different more compact one was the printer. Finding a new printer has been absolutely crucial for the success of this project so a large part of this thesis was to find, evaluate and test a new compact printer to use in the new pay terminal.
The methodology used in finding and evaluating the printer was based on Ulrich and Eppinger’s method for screening and comparing different products and ideas. Two printers were selected and tested in the climate chamber according to the methods for testing used at Dresser Wayne.
For the concept development phase known methods of product design and development
were used. After this process one concept was chosen for further development based on a
selection process. The developing and design work was done in a CAD environment
during the final developing stage and all the desired functions of the pay terminals were incorporated into the design. Aspects of insight protection, manufacturability, view angle, sealing against water and dust, assembly and maintenance were all taken into account in the final design.
The final pay terminal concept resulted in a prototype that visualized the design and allowed the functions to be tested and evaluated.
In order to make the pay terminal ready for production more development and testing is needed. The experiences derived from the prototype are also very important when the next step in the development process is taken.}},
author = {{Tunander, Anders and Sjöberg, Klas}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Development of a Space Optimized Payment Terminal}},
year = {{2009}},
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