Case Studies

Gear change hydraulic actuator system

The Brief:
Designed for electronic twin-clutch gear change in a high-performance vehicle, the original gear change hydraulic actuator system was machined from two aluminium blocks and assembled using bolts.  The hydraulic pathways were conventionally drilled and plugged, creating multiple ...

SAVING Project - saving litres of aviation fuel

The Brief:
The SAVING Project wanted to take a conventional part, redesign it to take advantage of the benefits of Additive Manufacturing thereby reducing its weight, in order to demonstrate the potential energy saving possible during the product’s lifetime use.  Having identified that by reducing ...

Personalisation of Titanium part

The Brief:
To announce the launch of the UK’s first EOSINT M 280, we invited our local MP, Richard Benyon, and local press, to an inauguration event.  We wanted to make a memento for him that reminded him of 3T and demonstrated the attributes of additive manufacturing and the new machine ...

Within - heat exchanger challenges designers

The Brief:
Working with Within Technologies, we wanted to produce a concept heat exchanger with a radical new approach to design which would demonstrate that additive manufacturing (AM) frees designers from constraints imposed by traditional manufacturing technologies ...

Ranier Technology Ltd - titanium is ideal solution

The Brief:
Ranier Technology is a Cambridge based medical device development company that makes world leading spinal disc implants.  The Ranier™ Distractor is the instrument used at all stages of Total Disc Replacement (TDR) procedures involving their revolutionary Cadisc™-L implant ...

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