Class III Sustaining Engineering Work
Andrews-Cooper has worked 100s of sustaining engineering projects to help our clients reduce cost, improve safety or streamline production. Often these are a great “first project” thus we provide some detail around past efforts:
Stamped Metal Part Design
Replaced a metal plates with overmolded buttons with a stamped metal part for 27% BOM savings
Molded Plastic Design
Replaced an assembly of multiple sheet metal parts with a single molded plastic design for 22% BOM savings
Connector Design
Design a backwards-compatible connector to enable a new vendor to ramp as an alternative supplier. Discovered issues in the original design leading to misalignment and distortion due to part sticking in tool. The correction resulted in field performance improvements.
PCB Board Redesign
With introduction of a new FPGA, Andrews-Cooper redesigned the circuity. This involved:
- FPGA selection
- Porting VHDL Code
- Creation and execution of test plans
- Document test results for compliance with IEC 60601-1 2nd edition
