STUDY FOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT AND WEIGHT REDUCTION CRASTAN RING

PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT

The study was requested by the customer to lighten the piece as much as possible to reduce the amount of material to be recycled. (attached drawing)

To allow this improvement, a study has been carried out on where to intervene without compromising the quality of the printed part and guaranteeing the machinability to the customer during the packaging phase.

CONTENTS OF R&D ACTIVITIES

In the modification analysis we saw that there was the possibility to lighten the piece by reducing the total height and the internal diameter with consequent thinning of the ring wall.

To obtain the lightened piece it was necessary to remake the particular mold that form the figure.

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