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SAF® Cast Aluminum - Structures Inspired by the Human Bone
When aspiring for the perfect or most optimal mechanism or device, most searches often lead to the human body. It is arguable that all aspects of the human body exceed anything that man has been able to create. The human brain is light years ahead of the best computer and no robot can duplicate the sophisticated and delicate abilities of a human. The human bone is no exception.
The human bone is a light weight yet very strong. Hooke’s law explains how the human bone is optimally shaped to bear stress. It’s composition of a hard outer cortical bone with a less dense cancellous core is no less miraculous.
A new breakthrough in material science has led to the ability to create aluminum structural parts that mimic the optimum structure of human bone.
Munro & Associates, Inc. is working with Cymat Technologies of Toronto to develop applications for the world’s first SAF® Cast Aluminum Parts. The structure of this material is modeled directly after the human bone.
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#5 Use Gravity, Don't Fight It
Lean Manufacturing Cannot Happen Without Lean Design
The same natural phenomenon that dropped an apple at Newtons feet and inspired his law of universal gravitation over three hundred years ago, can help you save time and money in your designs today.
Working against gravity is expensive and can cause difficulty in high volume automated assembly.
Wherever possible, parts should be designed to accomodate assembly in a single downward motion. Having to lift a part into its final position is time consuming and can be exhausting for an assembler. An assembly that is built from the bottom up will be the fastest to build and require fewer operations leaving less room for error.
General Dynamics Land Systems Selects Munro & Associates to Enhance Their Development Efforts for Producibility and Reliability for the Future Combat Systems (FCS)
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