Alternate Materials – Equivalency Review

Customer: Leading MRO Service provider – Seating Components

PROJECT SCOPE

  • Review the current design for part specifications and requirements for baseline.
  • Identify the alternate material and review the boundary conditions for FEA.
  • New component design (Casted Part) with new features to meet requirements.
  • Ensure manufacturability and documentation to showcase part equivalency.

APPROACH

  • Carried out design review and performed baseline studies.
  • Recommended alternate material and compared with baseline.
  • Reviewed Design for Manufacturing & Assembly.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Identified alternate material and avoided end of life of the part..
  • By avoiding obsolete material saved $360k annually.

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