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Stepper motor bracket
In this example the price reduction of a optimized motor bracket is presented. In this particular case, the main focus was not to reduce the weight of the motor bracket, but instead reduce the cost of the entire bracket. The first picture shows the old situation while the second picture shows the new situation..
In the old situation the motor was mounted with 4 stainless steel rods. The mounting rods where all CNC machined .
In the new situation, the optimized single part, replaces all 4 rods. Like the rods, the new, optimized bracket is also designed for stainless steel. The printproces of choice for this part is SLM printing.
For the new bracket a weight reduction of 19% was realized, compared to the old situation. The manufacturing costs dropped by 57%, comared to the old situation.
The new optimized bracket consists of one single part, printed with SLM print technique, in stainless steel.
Weight reduction: 19%
Manufacturing cost reduction 57%
Old situation, consisting of 4 CNC machined, stainless steel rods.
