Meama Dropper Máquina de Venda Automática de Cápsulas de Café by Meama is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Ouro in Design de Equipamentos de Escritório e Negócios Competition Category.
OuroEquipamento de Escritório· 2021
Meama Dropper Máquina de Venda Automática de Cápsulas de Café
by Meama
Client: Meama
A' Design Award de Ouro Winner in Equipamento de Escritório Category
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The Design
About Meama Dropper Máquina de Venda Automática de Cápsulas de Café
A Meama Dropper é uma máquina de venda automática de cápsulas de café, concebida para escritórios e centros de negócios. A máquina comporta entre 810 e 1290 cápsulas em seis mecanismos modulares, um para cada mistura. É possível combinar cápsulas de 37 mm e 51 mm de diâmetro, e a configuração é alterada com uma chave de fendas em poucos minutos. O vidro temperado mantém o conteúdo visível, permitindo verificar o estado das cápsulas. Os pedidos são feitos através de uma aplicação móvel, bastando ler um código QR. Caso uma cápsula não seja entregue, o pagamento é devolvido automaticamente.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Ouro
Meama Dropper Máquina de Venda Automática de Cápsulas de Café conquistou o A' Design Award de Ouro, um reconhecimento imensamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de primeira linha, maravilhosos e notáveis. Os vencedores do Ouro são criações extremamente inovadoras, visionárias e glamorosamente deslumbrantes, que refletem o prodígio, a sabedoria e a proeza dos seus designers. Espera-se que Meama Dropper Máquina de Venda Automática de Cápsulas de Café seja uma invenção muito elogiada, pioneira e monumental, que oferece um valor sem precedentes. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ouro é um projeto espetacular e respeitado, que beneficia muito e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Meama Dropper Máquina de Venda Automática de Cápsulas de Café cria sentimentos intensos de desejo, evoca paixão, incentiva a criatividade e fascina-nos.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Meama Dropper can hold 810-1290 coffee capsules and the exact quantity depends on the types of the capsules. The dropper is modular and holds 6 mechanisms for each taste. As it is modular you can configure the quantity of 37 mm diameter and 51 mm diameter, which lets costumers choose their favorite taste, and while it is transparent clients can see the condition of the products and not worry about it. Customers money is safe if the machine failed to give the product back as a sign of asking for forgiveness it will transfer your money back to you
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 835mm x Depth 590mm x Height 1670mm Dropper has 2 variations 1 is with the concrete and stainless steel on the top and another is in chestnut wood. modular mechanisms give the opportunity to configure the machine by your taste which means that it can be fulfilled with only 37 mm diameter capsules or 51 mm diameter capsules or mix, changing configuration is really easy and needs only one screwdriver and several minutes.
- Tags
- Meama, Dropper, Coffee Capsules, Georgia, Coffee Capsules Vending
- Production Technology
- Tempered glass for more durability and safety; uniquely shaped extruded aluminum for each type of capsule steel parts are covered with powder coating; every part which is in touch with the capsules suits the food safety standards.
- Design Challenge
- drinking coffee is a kind of a ritual for coffee lovers. people who stand up early do not often have time for that, and not everybody has a good coffee maker at home. Here we came up with the idea that everybody who loves coffee deserves this ritual and good quality coffee, that is why we made Meama Dropper into an office type of vending machine where you have a chance to do a morning coffee-making ritual and dring a good quality coffee. The hardest task was to make a machine where would be held different types of coffee capsules, some prefer to drink it with big mugs filter coffee, and some prefer espresso-based coffees, and the quantity of these different types of coffee lovers are different in every other office. So had to create one machine for all of them and the only way out here was the modularity to let them choose their own configuration. To make the mechanism modular was the hardest because the size and shape of the capsules are so different, but after a while came up with the mechanism type
- Research
- Regarding the increasing demand of high quality coffee in business centers and offices, Meama made a local research via CC and digital survey forms. Results showed the need of the fastest, easiest and cashless access to coffee capsules. The research helped to create two different visual concepts in order to suit various office interiors. Besides the research, active communication with B2B customers inspired our team to make coffee capsules affordable through a smart device.
- Inspiration
- We made Dropper transparent to let customers see the condition of the product, it holds 6 blends and 2 types of capsules. It gives the coffee capsule to the customer so they can brew it in the coffee maker. There have been many cases when traditional vending machines took the money but did not give the product back, which we all hate so decided to make the machine with the function that if it could not give the product back, then it would return the money back
- Project Duration
- The project started in February 2018 in Tbilisi and finished in September 2018, and was exhibited in China, Guang zhou in November 2018, and in Moscow in September 2018
- Operation Flow
- Using the machine is very easy, you will only need the smartphone Scan the QR code to get the application After you have registered you scan the same QR but this time with the application and it gives you the entire menu Choose your desired taste/tastes with the desired quantity and buy the machine will count if it gave the same quantity you ordered and if turned out that it is wrong it will transfer your money back, so there will never be any cases when you pay and do not get your product
- Patents
- Design belongs to Meama, NAP83778, 09/29/2020
- Team Members
- Industrial Designer :
Giorgi Khmaladze
Mechanical Engineers :
Gocha Gabrichidze
Luka Janjgava
Arman Kirakosyan
Vano Ubiria
Hardware and Embedded Systems Engineers :
Aleksandre Kalandadze
Dimitri Goderdzishvili
Lasha Jabniashvili - Image Credits
- Laap Photography
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