Component Analysis for Performance

A key performance requirement in the hinge/bearing assembly is that the two assembled plates provide the required degree of articulation. Interference between the two plates across the required range of motion has to be checked against the design swing angle.

• The major redesign of the two plates made it imperative that the articulation range between the two components -- “the swing”-- be checked against the design target.

• This was done through the engineering software Pro-E, which showed that the angular swing in the redesign was 47degrees left and right, meeting and exceeding the design target of 45 degrees.

• (The Pro-E graphic figure to the left shows the swing angle)

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Grede Foundries, Inc.
Milwaukee Steel Division