Case Studies
Peristaltic Pump, Medical Equipment
Clutch, Design Verification
Cryogenic Servo Valve, Flight Vehicle
Water Filtration System, Precision EDM Facility
- Upgrade to current design of cancer treatment equipment
- Met performance requirements of the existing machinery while significantly reducing cost
- Custom design simplifies installation and maintenance
- Exceeded customer's goals by approaching a three-fold reduction in cost
- Critical component in rotational assembly
- Checked for worst-case scenario
- Refined and validated mesh quality
- Validated FEA results with reactionary forces
- Design met safety criteria factors
- Analysis enable a fast-track to production
Spray Booth, Flow Analysis
- Optimum performance a function of even flow distribution
- Inlet and exhaust plenums are included in the flow path
- Filtration media model included in the simulation
- Air flow through booth is simulated in the CFD
- Several simple changes to the booth significantly reduced the flow variation
- The product was improved and great insight into the flow behavior was gained
Clip, Design Optimization
Stress/Strain Tester, Product Development Laboratory- Injection molded part to replace machined assembly
- Stresses and deflections simulated in FEA
- Significant cost reduction realized
- Improved part performance gained by FEA studies of several possible configurations
- Physical testing with FDM prototypes validated the performance predictions
- Design released for tooling after only one physical prototype cycle
- Product performance testing apparatus
- Completes test cycle, captures data in real-time and resets
- DC motor-driven z-axis lead screw acquires strain data through rotary encoder and stress data with compression load cell
- Test cycle initiated through control panel push button
- PLC controls position of head and sequence of operations
- For liquid-fueled rocket engines
- Custom solution in conjunction with XCOR Aerospace
- Selected suitable materials and evaluated performance at low temperatures (90K)
- Addressed and mitigated dynamic sealing and atmospheric moisture icing issues
- Controls 1500 psi liquid oxygen in millisecond speed with minimal helium consumption
- Automated, central water purification system
- Adds filtration capacity and redundancy to eliminate maintenance
- Allows two and three shifts to operate at full potential
- PLC coupled with a suite of sensors monitors water quality in real-time
- Alerts machine operator if there is pending maintenance prior to a shut-down condition
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