Previous Consumer Product Work
Consumer products can vary from smartphone cases to sports equipment. 3D scans of consumer products can be used for inspections, reverse engineering, product modification, and more. Being a leading consumer product design company in Michigan we are able to improve the looks and functionality of your product. Here at Applications 3D we also help inventors take their idea and turn it into a finished product ready for manufacturing. We can also rapidly prototype with our in-house 3D printers. Please contact us with any questions you have regarding our consumer product work via our contact form or call us at (248) 853-7700
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Custom Motorcycle Fender
A customer reached out to us because they had been having issues when it came to developing a new part that would fit an OEM one. This company was Sicass Racing and they were trying to develop a custom motorcycle fender. This custom part would be an add-on to the existing OEM motorcycle fender so it needed to be able…
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Texas Chair Mold Insert
One of our prestigious customers, a mold-making company, had a small dilemma. Their customer, who is a plastic chair molder/manufacturer, wanted a special mold for a plastic chair that included the Texas map on it as well as a series of patterns and a rose shape on it. Since the cost of such a mold is substantial, they wanted to build just one insert which could be changed in the mold, so that the mold could become…
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Our customer is a seller of old toys. He wanted to start producing old burp action toy guns. This mainly involves creating a mold to manufacture the plastic handles of the toy gun. So, Applications 3D was called in to help scan and create a mold CAD for production…
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US Olympic Luge Team Goes Faster!
The fastest sport on ice just became faster! When The US national Olympic team was looking for an edge to improve their luge sleds, they contacted DOW, an international manufacturer of materials. The DOW company researches new materials and develops customized revolutionary materials, designed for a specific purpose…
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Creating the Perfect Waffle
The Process Of Creating The Perfect Waffle A nationally leading manufacturer of frozen waffles has a unique but aged problem. How do they adjust existing raw potato waffle batter manufacturing line while in a flat mold, to match waffle stripe lines to the mold for each waffle inside the individual cartons. This had become an issue due to waffle batter overflow at different cavities, if they put too little batter in, it would result in an incomplete waffle, which could not be sold, and vice thrown in waste, costing $$$$. If they put too much batter, excess along the excess material could get stuck at the waffle line causing conveyor system to stop, resulting production loss and line downtime challenges for the facility that could save 2-3 manhours multiple occasions while high-speed 35M running down with the technology Center 55 scanner. The resulting scan data was processed into the software and generated a digital surface model advanced digital modelling program allowed us to create a digital section of the two halves of the mold. Two waffle halves were complete by using a software cloud process which could compare both top and bottom piece and determine the amount of batter overflowing and mapping this to the waffle line, creating material flow CFD results then analyzed in Ansys® Fluent to determine the actual volume of the excess material. Cavity Applications® was able to achieve creating the perfect waffle.
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Creating the Perfect Waffle!
A nationally leading manufacturer of frozen waffles had a unique but age-old problem. When manufacturing the waffles in a hot mold, how much waffle batter mix to add to the mold for each waffle? Since the waffle molds were usually cast steel tools, there was a lot of variation between the different cavities…
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Modernizing Product Development for Legacy Parts
A customer approached us with a molded ski boot that was manufactured with outdated techniques. They had been manufacturing the same design for years and wanted to update the design as well as their processes for manufacturing. Furthermore, the manufacturing processes they had been using were not cost-effective and slowed the production and quality…
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Past Projects
Our past projects highlight real examples of how our 3D scanning, inspection, reverse engineering, and CAD design services solve complex manufacturing challenges. These case-driven results demonstrate our expertise across automotive, aerospace, medical, and tooling industries.
