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BRAUNABILITY SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES PRODUCTIVITY IN PROTOTYPING AND PARTS PROGRAMMING

BRAUNABILITY SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES PRODUCTIVITY IN PROTOTYPING AND PARTS PROGRAMMING

Customer challenge

The process of designing and manufacturing accessible vehicles that meet and exceed the needs of the end-users is time and labor intensive and requires precise prototyping to prove the design before beginning production. Any increase in productivity or decrease in man hours provides significant savings in both time and money. Also, many complex parts require additional time to design and manufacture, and the overflow requires outside assistance.

Project goals

BraunAbility had 2 key goals that needed to be met: 1) Introduce function and clearance applications using Kinematics 2) Complex nature of mechanism required adding Tolerance Stack-up

Solution

Tata Technologies assessment of the the situation led to a solution that increased the use of AutoCAD 2020, Inventor Professional, and implementation of Vault Professional and Power Inspect, with an eye to reducing the time from design to prototype. The decision to expand the use of Inventor Professional not only resolved the issues of inspecting the sub-assembly’s kinematics but also performing stress analysis and prototyping improvements through model-based dimensioning.

Business outcome

By creating models in Autodesk Inventor and eliminating the need for manually drafting a print for use in programming a part for machining and then using that model in programming, significant savings were realized. On average, over three hours of intensive labor was saved per prototype part for a reduction of over 130 hours in drafting and almost 900 in parts programming.

Conclusion

Always committed to growth and improvement, BraunAbility is now researching further gains in productivity, reductions in time to part, and the ability to design and produce increasingly more complex parts in-house. This continued pursuit of innovative solutions is what allows BraunAbility to continue to lead in producing the most advanced mobility solutions in the accessible vehicle marketplace.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 5
  • 2020-10-19

    Autodesk solutions

  • Inventor
  • Vault Professional
  • PowerInspect
  • AutoCAD

    Services provided

  • Product Training
  • Business Transformation Consulting

    Customer industry

  • Design
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