A Design of Cassava Grinding Machine

This study focuses on developing the conventional cassava grinder machine used by Filipino since the late 1980s. Nowadays, corn farmers are switching to cassava farming due to calamities. “Corn farmers have seen the advantage of planting cassava considering the small capital compared to corn farming which needed huge capital,” said Rufino Arcega a city agriculturist. Researchers found it interesting about the cassava industry and come up with the idea of applying the concept, theories, and studies related to Machine Design to improve/develop the mortar and pestle equipment. The traditional way of making nilupak delicacy was by mashing the cassava repeatedly. After the cassava was boiled in water, it will be placed in a wooden mortar and will be mashed until it was dough-like in texture. The idea of the slider-crank mechanism would be used, and the mechanism will do the mashing process, a crank was connected to a motor, the connecting rod was connected to the crank to the slider making back and forth motion, in short, from rotational converting it into reciprocating motion.