CPSC02 Bike Life
Team Members: Adam Cross, Merrill Lines, John Ragan, Cody Valle
Faculty Advisor: Shawn Bowers
Sponsor: Gonzaga University Center for
Engineering Design & Entrepreneurship
Liaison: Kevin Dentler, Dan Lenz
Project background or overview:The bicycle repair industry has enjoyed a long tradition of camaraderie united by a common goal of getting more people to ride bikes. In the last 5 years the number of people riding bikes has increased 28% (statista.com). With this increase, many new frame designs and retail categories have emerged in an effort to capitalize on this growth. New technologies are being developed at a rate that is hard to keep up with, while the standard operating procedures for bicycle repair within shops remained largely unchanged. For decades, shops have relied on an antiquated system of carbon copy paperwork and a filing structure that is inconvenient and slow. At this time, the only alternative is not widespread and can cost tens of thousands of dollars per location. The only way to keep track of maintenance actions and parts ordering are through these primitive methods. Shops are forced to buy forms at hundreds of dollars per box, for lack of a better mechanism. Once the work is completed most of the copies are thrown away, or in some cases stored (e.g., in boxes) for record keeping. The goal of this application is to replace all repair shop paperwork with digital forms and a form management system to speed up daily shop tasks and reference searches. The conversion to digital forms has the potential to disrupt the status quo by easily assimilating new ideas and features into a dynamic application as well as reducing paper waste.
Summary statement of project goal:
Create an iOS iPad application that will reconcile all paperwork used in a bicycle repair shop for day to day operations. Using this application would allow bicycle repair shops to prioritize their needs by customizing data fields and gathering only the information that is needed to complete a maintenance action as quickly as possible. Multiple users on different devices would be able to save form data into a database stored on the application server. Technicians would also be able to perform advanced searches for customer data or bike inventory. A key to shop efficiency in scheduling is the ability to quickly view the day’s workload. This application would allow for the easy display of the daily/weekly/monthly workload. Using this recording method, the manager of the bike shop would then be able to view how many maintenance actions were performed and by whom at the end of each day/week/month.Project Deliverables:
1. Project Plan delineating milestones and deliverable within first month.
2. Develop a basic structure of the application that can be beta tested in a real shop environment.
3. Set up server for application database
4. Addition of features (if necessary) and continued beta testing.
Successfully submit application for download on the Apple App Store
Key features to be implemented with higher priority being listed first.
● Construct bicycle repair work order.
● Construct parts order form.
● Schedule work to be done and estimate the completion date.
● View and/or print daily workload.
● User accounts with permission settings.
- Multiple users on different devices simultaneously.
● Construct test ride form with ability to attach picture of rider.
● Email work order to notify customer of completed work.
● Calculate and track repair metrics for multiple users.
● Construct Inventory sales form with buyer's agreement.
● Advanced Search feature with customer and bicycle parameters.
● Stolen bicycle flag.
Additional features may be required as the application evolves in testing