Oishii Farm Corporation has developed the world's first and largest indoor vertical strawberry farm.
Oishii is changing the agriculture industry and how we grow food.
Brendan Somerville, Co-Founder & COO at Oishii, and me.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Jimmy Kimmel try Oishii berries
My team and I saved Oishii $400,000+ & 5,000+ labor hours with products we designed & implemented for construction of the world's largest indoor vertical strawberry farm.
5000 total LED light bar hangers needed for farm
Single-piece LED light hanger made from CNC machine bent wire.
No hardware or assembly, snaps onto vertical farm rack in seconds.
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The Solution
Tabletop CNC wire bender machine with automated wire loading and cutting. Manufactured 5000 new LED light brackets in less than 1 month.
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pnuematic pusher to feed wire
stick into CNC bender
air compressor
connected to the
3 pneumatic pushers
pneumatic pusher to
load wire magazine
hand load
6-foot wire sticks
pneumatic pusher
loads 1 wire stick
pneumatic pusher
feeds wire stick into
CNC bender
custom sheet metal
bend zone & slopped
collection bin for wire part
safety & structure cage
Pensa DI Wire
CNC wire bender
Arduino-controlled Ryobi
wire cutter Pneumatic actuation
to drop over wire part, cut, then
retract out of bend path
start
done
custom design
“lighting bolt”
3D printed wire
magazine
start
done
x5000 units
The Solution Results
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increase in average light intensity
from optimized light arrangement
saved in material cost
saved in labor cost
by optimizing design
for installation
parts manufactured in 3 weeks
manual labor hours
eliminated by automating
wire bending production
saved in labor hours
by optimizing design
for installation
240 total vertical farm racks needed
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contractor team could build
and install 10 in one day
estimated labor cost
faulty assemblies
Create a system to build Oishii's vertical farm racks error free, quicker, and safer.
( racks are 11 feet tall )
I showed the above drawings to the contractors and they gave me feedback
The Solution
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rack construction
tabletop jig construction
The Solution Results
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contractor team could build
and install 10 in one day
estimated labor cost
faulty assemblies
contractor team could build
and install 32 in one day
actual labor cost
faulty assemblies
during all rack build
& install with design.
