Tag Archive for: Manufacturing

Augmented Reality Manufacturing

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How can new technology such as Augmented Reality facilitate the manual manufacturing of products made of fiber-reinforced composite materials?

In order to find out, Radiate Engineering & Design collaborated together with Rimon Technologies, which are developing and validating Augmented Reality applications. In the project, our engineer, Jan, is using special AR software combined with HoloLens 2 glasses to make the exact alignment and positioning of the materials directly visible on the component.

Check out the video below to see for yourself how this can increase quality and minimize errors using an AR Step-by-Step instruction.

Radiate expands prototyping capabilities with brand new CNC milling machine

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Since the birth of Radiate, prototyping is in our DNA, incorporated in a simulation driven engineering approach. Due to the limited size of the current CNC workhorse, Radiate recently acquired a new, larger CNC milling machine, which enables us to prototype and manufacture larger parts such as tooling molds, aluminium or steel parts up to sizes of 2m x 1m. With its gantry build, the machine from the german Company BZT is incredibly accurate for its size and can handle high acceleration and speed in order to increase efficiency. We are excited to be able to offer further manufacturing capacities for our customers!

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Talk on Advanced Prototyping

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Mattis Stolze from Radiate Engineering is giving a talk about “Advanced Prototyping” on November 18th as part of the Lean Startup Zürich group.

The Lean Startup Zürich Meetup group is a community who is passionate about sharing knowledge on the application of lean methodologies in start up and existing companies, big and small including and beyond software and web development.

The event takes place at Liip, Limmatstrasse 183 in Zurich and starts around 6:30 pm.

ABSTRACT “Advanced Prototyping”
The talk focuses on Prototypes are essential for communicating ideas, testing hypotheses, and designing products. Prototypes tackle simple or complex problems, make use of paper and cardboard, 3d printing and cnc milling. There is no limit. This talk will dive into more advanced means, that enable us to invest crucial functions and hypotheses, decisive for a success of the envisioned product. By looking at real world cases, digital and analog means are examined. We take a look at pretending prototypes, cad models and mechanical prototypes, which all share a relative simplicity, low costs and a high learning potential for quick learnings.

SPEAKER: Mattis Stolze
Mattis works as consultant and development engineer at Radiate Engineering. He combines design thinking and mechanical engineering, tackles real world problems and mentors students at ETH Zurich.

AGENDA
6:30 pm Doors open & networking
6:45 pm Introduction to the Lean Startup Framework
7:00 pm Presentation followed by discussions
8:30 pm Networking
10:00 pm Closing

Selective laser sintering with the Sintratec Kit/in /by

Radiate extends the in-house prototyping lab with another component and goes a step further with the commissioning of the Sintratec SLS printer towards in-house composite and prototype construction. In the development process, it is important to check functions, form and processes at an early stage to ensure fast and targeted implementation of highly loaded and functional prototypes. The Sintratec Kit provides engineers and customers with completely new options for implementing market-ready disruptive solutions in the field of fiber composites. As Simon Grob, Head of Simulation Technology at Radiate, comments: “With Sintratec, we have found the ideal partner to help us get started with SLS technology, and we are much closer to our goal of expanding the ‘Additive Manufacturing’ sector brings.”