Zimmer Titan
Client: Zimmer Biomet
Objective: Design for manufacturing to allow the company to rethink manufacturing process, decrease piece-count, and rearrange components within system for ease of manufacturing, while also modernizing the aesthetics to fit in modern operating room.
Activities
- Performed Market Research to identify opportunities for improvement in use, and design, as well as competitors
- Involved Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering early to best balance the design inputs with manufacturability and cost inputs
- Involved their Contract Manufacturer in the development process to helps us understand their restraints, and in turn engineer and design in a way that maximizes manufacturability
- Performed Internal Plastics engineering, and Internal Chassis engineering