DESIGN NAME: TechnoVector 7 Truck
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Wheel Aligners
INSPIRATION: The customer Technocar is a Russian company aiming at competing worldwide with well established brand such as Hunter. They realized the importance of industrial design as a key factor to create innovation and personality for their brand. The brief they gave to our design company was very simple challenging to create something clean, simple, modern, but at the same time quite expressive, courageous, dynamic. Design computer console and vertical pillars is a work of clean, contemporary lines. It to express the truck’s efficiency and power. It should look like it’s moving even when it’s standing still.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Techno Vector 7 is the first in the world 3D wheel aligner of conventional assembling for heavy-duty vehicles. Include the following basic parts: 1 Computer console ergonomic operating control panel. 2 Self-centering wheel adapters allow operating a wide range of wheel disks from 12 to 24 inches. 3 Targets. 4 Special probe target allows quick and accurate measurements of truck frame position. 5 Machine vision system housings are vertical pillars equipped with precision network camera units.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The operation of the wheel aligners is based on measurements of wheel axis angle parameters by video cameras and high-precision image targets.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in September 2015 in Tula and finished in June 2016 in Germany at Automechanika 2016 the world’s leading trade fair for the Automotive Service Industry in Frankfurt am Main, where TechnoVector 7 Truck was formally launched to the public.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Product Engineering and Technical Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Design process included: research, brainstorming, creativity, 2d proposals, 3d proposlas, 3d mockup, rapid prototype, U.I. design, graphic design, advertising and communication material design, exhib. stands design.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: It allows taking measurements on heavy-duty vehicles with the wheelbase up to 16 meters.
TAGS: Technocar, Techno Vector 7 Truck, Wheel Aligners for truck, Russia
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: TechnoVector 7 - 3D wheel aligners for trucks is designed to become the favourite tool for each and every car service stations and diagnostic centers worldwide. How? it's easy to use: a dedicated U.I. makes operations very intuitive and quick. The industrial design and ergonomics of the machine allow for perfect adjustments to adapt to each operator's and patient's needs. Selected materials guarantee high quality and reliability, also giving a feeling of solidity and protection.
CHALLENGE: Design team faced many challenges during the development of TechnoVector 7 Truck. 1. understanding the hundreds of rules and regulations related to the best ergonomics for wheel aligners. 2. designing something modern and different, but not aggressive or super-cold 3. designing a world-product: it means understanding the needs of customers worldwide 4. selecting the best materials according to the desired result keeping an eye on cost control.
ADDED DATE: 2016-09-28 11:32:08
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Kirill Gavrilin: product designer
IMAGE CREDITS: Kirill Gavrilin - TechnoDESIGN, 2016.
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