Current vending machine owners are facing challenges from hacking and vandalism. The aim of this paper is to design a high-tech vending machine that can ...ArticlePDFAvailableDesignofahigh-techvendingmachineJanuary2020ProcediaCIRP91:678-683DOI:10.1016/j.procir.2020.04.133Authors:VennanSibandaNationalUniversityofScienceandTechnology,BulawayoLorraineMunetsiLorraineMunetsiThispersonisnotonResearchGate,orhasn'tclaimedthisresearchyet.KhumbulaniMpofuTshwaneUniversityofTechnologyEriyetiMurenaNationalUniversityofScienceandTechnology.NUST(Bulawayo,Zimbabwe)Showall5authorsHideDownloadfull-textPDFReadfull-textDownloadfull-textPDFReadfull-textDownloadcitationCopylinkLinkcopiedReadfull-textDownloadcitationCopylinkLinkcopiedReferences(17)Figures(9)AbstractandFiguresImagine,payingandplacinganorderinafoodoutletonlytowaitforanextratwentytothirtyminutestogettheorderedproducts.Howtiring.Thisisthecurrentsituationindifferentfoodoutletsandshops.Whatifwecouldsavetimeby75%to83%andgetanorderinfiveminutesorless?Thiscanbeachievedbythedesignanddevelopmentofafullyfletchedhigh–techvendingmachine.Currentvendingmachineownersarefacingchallengesfromhackingandvandalism.Theaimofthispaperistodesignahigh-techvendingmachinethatcandispenseavarietyofproductsatthesametime.Themachineusesfingerprintsensorsandotherhightechnologicalfeaturesforsecurityanduser-friendliness.Thesecuritysystemwhichusesbiometricsforopeningandclosingdoorswasinterrogatedandused.AnadvertisingplatformwasdevelopedusingHTML,JavaScriptandCSStocaterfordifferentproductsonoffer.Thealarmsystemisinterfacedwithaservomotorandabuzzerforprovidingaddedsecurity.SublimeTextwasusedforcreatingawebsiteandXAMPPwasusedforportforwarding.Theresultisafullyfletchedvendingmachinethatcansafelyvendaboutfifteenproductsormoreallhousedinarobustcabin.Hotbeveragesvendingmachine[13]… FoodVendingMachine(Ltd,2018)[12]… SpiralConveyor… Belt… +4Designofthevendingmachine.… Figures-availablevialicense:CreativeCommonsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives4.0InternationalConte