Full-featured touch solutions
Prototype construction plays an important role in the development of individually designed touch panels and HMIs (Human Machine Interface).
The goal of rapid prototyping is to design fully functional touch solutions in the early development phases. In order to create a better understanding of the developed application, its functionality and suitability for the planned application.
Another important goal is to shorten the development time as well as a noticeable reduction in development costs.
The NX CAD system from Siemens is a fully three-dimensional system with double precision that enables the exact description of almost any geometric shape. By connecting these shapes, designs for products can be created, analyzed, and generated.
With integrated design, simulation, tooling, and manufacturing, NX allows you to quickly create and optimize development processes to use the same knowledge and data from initial concept to manufacturing. Development times can be shortened to about 35% of regular development work.
In conjunction with the CAE functions, there are almost endless possibilities for the simulation of touch systems as well as the simulation of touch systems.
Prototyping takes place in two phases:
Step 1: 3D-CAD design
If there are no concrete design specifications, Interelctronix develops 3-D models in the first step and tests all applicable models using the NX CAD system.
-Technologies -Materials
- refinements, and
- Installation and operating requirements
until a suitable construction is found.
The NX CAD system from Siemens is ideal for quickly detecting errors in the design, avoiding high costs in toolmaking in advance and significantly shortening design times.
Through the 3D CAD design process, the manufacturing conditions and restrictions to be taken into account for the series are taken into account in detail during prototype design and, for example, difficult installation conditions or special environmental influences are tested.
If models have already been created on other CAD systems, NX enables the direct use of models with synchronous technology. CAD geometries from any source can be imported and edited quickly, easily and efficiently, saving significant time and money.
Step 2: Physical construction of a prototype
In a second step, the physical construction of a prototype takes place, which largely corresponds to the final product in all its requirements.
Of considerable advantage for the rapid creation of a product is the competence of Interelectronix in the field of glass surfaces and surface finishing, controller and controller configuration, the recent introduction of 3D printing as well as an in-house milling department in which front panels or housing parts can be created in a timely manner.
After the first physical prototypes have been built, the various construction designs are examined for their suitability in technical tests and real operating conditions. A detailed test protocol provides precise information as to whether the desired technical criteria have been achieved or whether an improvement in the design is required.
With our prototypes, all necessary mechanical, chemical and thermal tests can be carried out in order to comprehensively test the suitability with regard to the future field of application.