Pre study of electro mechanical cylinder with cascade gear technology

Purpose and goal

As a first step in the commercialization of Cascade Drives product the business case must be verified in order to have an attractive offer to possible customers and being able to engage in a pilot project. The detail design and cost analysis performed resulted in a verification of the technical properties as well as finding that the product is profitable for both Cascade Drives and the customer. Now Cascade Drives has identified key customers and are ready for negotiations as well as approaching new customers.

Results and expected effects

The detail design work enabled Cascade Drives to present a product with an improved form factor. An analysis of the energy consumption savings and purchase cost shows an attractive customer offering where the product is refunded in 3 years due to the fuel savings: Cascade Drives is also capable of maintaining an appealing and reasonable gross margin. The achieved results shows that this customer segment is well suited as one of the first applications for Cascade Drives.

Approach and implementation

The project was performed by Cascade Drives by a designer and a business developer. The designer has brought forward a BOM with dimensioned components for this application along with a CAD-model and a physical 3D-model. Some support has been recieved from KTH concerning the technical verification, mostly it was recieved from the testbench at KTH. The BOM-list for prototype and series manufacturing porvided a basis for the price determination for the given application. The plan and tasks performed is considered succesfull although a minor change in resources was done.