Question for a new product: uni student. What jobs are done on the floor / kneeling most?

[Sara Davies]

Good day

I'm a university student on a product design course.

To create a product around electricians day to day work making your lives easier.

My main question is what work do you conduct most on or near the floor?
What tools are used in those jobs?
lastly
what are your issues an problems when working down low?
any other information on how something could help make your life easier please feel free to let me know.

Thank you

 

[Sara Davies]

Being a maintenance engineer means I regularly have to work at floor level and often under machines.

Many years ago I smashed my left knee to bits and ever since then I always have to fit the knee pads into work trousers.

If I know I'm going to be on knees a lot I have been known to put another pain of pads in boiler suit knee pockets.

The only improvement I can think of would be in the materials the pads are made of.
They only last so long and need new ones.

Im sorry about your knee , the material is likely a reasonably priced plastic to keep cost down. However the future is all about quality lasting products again, I can put it forward to the company and fingers crossed for you .

 

[Fazz711]

Was thinking earlier that manufacture of replacement joints might be considerably more profitable.

Last thing my surgeon said to me was see you when you need a new knee.

Luckily not yet lol

 

[Sara Davies]

Was thinking earlier that manufacture of replacement joints might be considerably more profitable

Last thing my surgeon said to me was see you when you need a new knee.

Luckily not yet lol

metal moulded and glued onto pad with memory foam inside ! got any savvy friends ?

 

[Lister1987]

The more functions you could put into the device th more useful it would be.

A collapsible seat with in-built cable functionality (similar to cable jack etc), a skirt around the top of the swat would provide pockets for tools.

 

[ipf]

Last week, stretching and reaching on my back and knees as well as squeezing into, under and through gaps, fault finding in an existing fitted kitchen.
I came away regretting I'd not had a sledge hammer handy.

 

[Mike Johnson]

The problem with knee pads in trousers is they move around and inevitably are not under your knees when you hit the floor, then the problem with over knee protection is they are heavy, don't breath. so you sweat inside them and eventually become very uncomfortable.

The idea of a kneeling pad with tool pockets seems a good idea, but eventually as we all do, will end up very heavy as you load it with tools, I eventually went with a small stiff cary bag, not shoulder bag, that I could put all the tools I need for a specific job and a kneeling pad on one side, but again it gets overloaded and we are back to square one.

Good luck with finding the ideal product.