Automation Engineering
Durability Test Fixtures
Custom fixtures that hold a complex molded part through tens of thousands of force cycles in an environmental chamber, without damage.
- Customer
- Tier-1 automotive supplier
- Industry
- Automotive
- Service
- Automation Engineering
- PO to delivery, multiple fixtures
- < 3 weeks
- force cycles across temperature extremes
- 10,000s
The challenge
- A new customer-required durability test: controlled force at several points, tens of thousands of times
- Run inside an environmental chamber cycling between temperature extremes
- A highly organic injection-molded shape that could not be cosmetically or functionally damaged
What APTUS did
- Fixture concept and proof-of-concept testing
- All design work and documentation for the fixture and actuation mechanism
- Developed and sourced custom-molded contact components
Results
- Multiple fixtures delivered in under 3 weeks from PO
- Customer met its own customer-imposed deadline
What went into it
- Fixtures & ToolingTools that hold, align, and check parts every time.
- Mechanical DesignThe parts and mechanisms that make it work.
- PrototypingWorking models you can hold, test, and show.
- Testing & ValidationProving it works before it ships.
- Documentation & SourcingDrawings, parts lists, and suppliers, ready to go.
