Tag: Fisher& Paykel

Last week wednesday at around nine o clock we got to meet a lady named ”Jennifer”. Jennifer was a lady who came from a company named ”fisher & Paykel”. The company fisher and paykel creates washing machines. Jennifer’s job was a product development engineer. A Product Development Engineer develops new products for companies, and participates in all phases of product development including research, design, production and marketing. To begin this lesson Jennifer was asking us what kind of things we can wash in a washing machine. Many of us were saying clothes, towels and tea towels. But what we found out was that you can wash your shoes in a washing machine as well!!. But shoes made with materials like canvas, nylon, cotton and polyester are usually safe to wash in a washing machine. These materials are durable and shouldn’t be damaged by laundry detergent. But the kind of shoes you cannot wash is any shoes that are made from animal-based fabrics, like leather or suede because the agitator and high water pressure can damage the shoes and cause them to lose their shape. The next thing we got to do next was see what a washing looks like inside and how the things inside could help the motor move. This part was really fun because I learnt how it works inside and what things help the motor move to start the washing machine. After doing all of that we got to begin our science experiment which was finding out what type of washing machines can clean the cloth the most using plastic bottles. To do this experiment we had to first figure out how much detergent we were going to put into four separate bottles. Each bottle would have a way you would have to shake it. Like for example bottle one was high which means we had to shake the bottle really hard. Bottle two high and low which means to shake not as hard. Bottle three low and high which is not as hard. Lastly bottle four low and low which means you would have to shake the bottle really gently. To start this science experiment we had to split into two groups which would have two bottles each. Two people would shake the bottle a few times then pass it to the next person beside them. What was really interesting was that many people were shaking the bottle really differently, for example for the bottle high people were shaking it up and down and others were shaking it sideways. When we were finally finished doing that we got to dry our cloths to see which washing machine/bottles were the cleanest and the dirtiest. After drying everything we found out that bottle one was the cleanest because it was high and the dirtiest was bottle four which was low. Bottle two was dirtier and bottle three was cleaner. Doing this experiment and exploring all about washing machines was so much fun. I hope that you all enjoy checking out some of these pictures of how much we have got up to. Remember to leave a positive comment on my blog, thank you.