NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: BENCHMARKING, PROTOTYPING, AND FEA MODELING

摘要

Increasing demand for smaller products at lower costs has encouraged a rubber products company to develop a new product line made exclusively from plastic. Firestone Industrial Products Company approached new product development by benchmarking industry standards, prototyping duo-durometer polyurethane weld joints, and finite element analysis (FEA) modeling of a flex-member component.