Industry: Heavy Truck Manufacturing
SUCCESS STORIES | Case Study 1
The Challenge:
PPF was supplied a drawing of a fabricated geometry and challenged to design a more cost effective solution to produce a fuel tank step bracket.
PPF’s Solution:
Fabrication to casting conversion
- Designed casting geometry in CAD
- Proofed the durability with stress analysis
- Proofed the castability and gating design with casting simulation
- With simulation we can keep porosity out of critical areas
“Since the proposed cast bracket has nearly the same safety factor as the more expensive fabricated bracket we recommended replacing the existing bracket with the PPF-cast bracket.”
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