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The goal was to maintain a visually appealing aesthetic using rolled and bent sheet metal. The inner ring is machined out of aluminum. This is what a testing machine looks like:
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While the process is largely automated, Distek wanted to create a cost effective and user-friendly solution for allowing human transportation from the testing mechanism to other areas of the lab. Below are excerpts from the concept stage, after some refinement, included a rolled sheet metal concept, and several others that included milled handles and other machined components. In the end, the handle concept was scrapped in order to save on part costs.
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After further refinement, I created numerous renders of our 3 main concepts. The one on the bottom was chosen as the winner of the group and will go into production in early 2016.
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