tweet
The Brief:
Choose a well-known brand and develop an injection mould tool which would produce a functional polymer ‘widget’ that is intended to be given away to promote the chosen brand.
The Solution:
'Tweet' is a functional polymer ‘widget’ that is intended to be given away to promote the brand twitter.
Tweet is a phone stand which has been designed in the style of the twitter logo. Tweet has been manufactured from an injection mould tool which was designed by me but made as part of a group project.
sketch development
Solidworks cad development
checking engineers drawings before mould tool production
prototype mould tools to final mould tool development
manufacturing the injection mould tool
injection moulding the widget
'tweet'
the mould tool
iterations and development
the target set
In 13 weeks a total of 3,000,000 widgets needs to be produced.
the results
Total cycle time 4.8 seconds
Ejection 0.528 seconds
240,000 widgets a week
3,120,000 widgets in 13 weeks.
user interaction for the 'tweet' widget
final 'tweet' visuals
