NPD-Specialty Trailer Wheels

Customer: Leading Wheels manufacturer in North America

PROJECT SCOPE

  • Customer would like to improve the current design and make a new variant.
  • Bench mark the current design for internal studies – Durability & Fatigue.
  • Create a new design with improved performance in a short time frame.
  • Document the current design and process for design release management.

APPROACH

  • Reverse engineered the current design – CAD & associated drawings.
  • Conducted FEA Analysis for the current design and correlated.
  • Developed a new design which exceeds the specified requirements.
  • Validated the new design and compared with benchmark design.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

  • New design capable of withstanding high loads and with improvedlife-expectancy.
  • Fully documented the engineering information – CAD and Drawings.
  • Reduced product development time by 66% – Faster to the Market.

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