Skills: Design for Manufacturing, Design for Assembly, CNC Milling, Turning, Thermoforming, Injection Molding, CAM, GD&T, Teamwork, Project Management
This is the yoyo I worked on with my team in 2.008, Design and Manufacturing II. We designed a Yo-Yo for manufacturing, then produced 50 exact models for inspection using Injection Molding and Thermoforming techniques.
Ideation Process for Yoyo
Slide from Design Presentation, covering interesting design feature of the Yo-Yo
Labeled Section View of Yo-Yo
Exploded View of Yo-Yo
After creating our design, we used Fusion360 to create CAM of the molds we would need to injection mold our parts. We CNC milled our molds from aluminum on a HASS VF-OE.
Based on the results of the first IM runs, we had to iterate our design and recreate these mold (sometimes more than once).
The 'Body Base' had a nut insert molded inside it to hold the Yo-Yo together!
Our 50 Yo-Yos
Towards the end of the class, we had to create a Manufacturing Review, covering the manufacturability and DFM of our Yo-Yo. One part of the presentation that I'm particularly proud of involved creating a quantitative plan to produce a million Yo-Yos in the lab we were working in, with no additional capital expenses for equipment. By getting creative with multi-cavity molding and pushing the machines production bays to their limits, I was able to create a theoretical plan to produce 1 million Yo-Yos in a year, using minimal equipment.
All in all, this was a great experience that taught me a lot about manufacturing, teamwork, and the difficulties of mass production.