Ultrasonic flaw detector "LUCH"

The company «LUCH» has a task for us: to develop a new flaw detector case, to make a lighter case and upgrade the design.

Any project begins with the analysis of the product itself and models suggested by both direct and indirect competitors. Let's take a look at the designs by other manufacturers:

Design development begins with sketches.

There are more than a hundred ideas and designs; we need to make a choice. We choose three main options:

Visualization:

The Customer selects, expresses his wishes, and the design changes almost completely.

Flaw detector is not a simple device: the operator would have to work in extremely complicated conditions. So the ergonomic properties of the case are extremely important.

To test them we need to make a full-scale prototype – by way of 3D-printing, for example, which is easy and cheap.

The next stage is CAD-modeling and the preparation of the package of design documentation.

We make a test model of the flaw detector. Production technology is multi-axis milling glass-nylon composite.

And here the manufacturer makes a presentation of the first serial (mass-produced) case at a specialized exhibition.