Industrial Origami delivers improved profitability, time savings and precision in manufacturing by:
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Reducing Part Count and Bill of Materials (BOM). Fewer parts mean reduced part costs, reduced inventory, and reduced shipping. |
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Reducing Joining and Fastening Operations. Reduced joining and fastening operations means faster assembly, and reduced possibility of error. Also reduced inventory of fasteners. Increased precision because of less joining. |
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Simplifying the design and making of complex structures. |
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Simplifying Stamping. With hard tooling, many "tall" features are replaced with "low" features. Also, there is potentially a reduction in the number of "stations" or "stages" in progressive and stage tooling reducing hard tooling costs. This also may result in faster throughput. |
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Simplifying Assembly. Assembly is no longer organized around what is "required", but around what is the most logical way to assemble. Today, enclosures are usually created first. Components are then placed inside the enclosures. With the Industrial Origami Technology, the Industrial Origami features can be stamped or cut in the flat sheet material. The components can be placed on the stamped flat sheet, and then folded up later in the assembly process.
Products incorporating the Industrial Origami Technology only assemble one-way. This reduces errors in assembly. This aids in quality control. |
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Greater Precision and More Consistency. The limit on precision, is the stamping or cutting tools used to create the Industrial Origami "smiles". The more precise the stamping or cutting tools, the more precise the fold lines made with Industrial Origami Technology. Because the smiles are always stamped or cut in the same location on the sheet materials, the fold lines are consistently in the same location. This improves precision, and does so more consistently than would be otherwise possible with sheet materials. |
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Shipping in the Flat. The Industrial Origami "smiles" can be stamped or cut into the flat sheet material. The products can then be shipped in the flat and subsequently folded up. Because parts are shipped in the flat, more pieces can be put in containers reducing the need to ship "air" Special handling of complex parts is reduced, reducing costs. |
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Often Weight Reduction. Because there are fewer fasteners, or other joining such as welding, there is less need for material to overlap for fastening or welding. These and other factors often lead to weight reduction compared with traditional manufacturing methods. |
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Faster Time to Market and Lower Cost Rapid Prototyping. Industrial Origami Technology enables the rapid creation and fold up of prototypes. This enables product developers to quickly test various prototype configurations, and then optimize to reduce time to create prototypes, and reduce errors. |
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Existing Capital Equipment. The Industrial Origami Technology works with existing hard and soft tooling. Users can use their existing stamping and laser equipment. New hard tooling will be necessary, but this should be less complex and lower cost than with traditional methods. It should be faster to setup and there should be faster throughput. |
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Uses Existing Computer Aided Design ("CAD") Software. The Industrial Origami Technology works with existing CAD software. A small add-on Industrial Origami software module works with standard CAD packages such as ProE and SolidWorks. With training from Industrial Origami, design engineers can quickly learn to use the Industrial Origami software module. |
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Reduced Labor. Because of the reduction part count and joining, simplified stamping, and other factors, labor costs are often reduced. There should also be a reduction in the need for QC. |
