To bolster its competitive position, a forward-thinking office furniture company applied state-of-the-art engineering technology to improve product life and offer more value to its customers through extended warranties. A SixD engineer helped develop a test program to measure service loads on an office chair during normal usage by a variety of users in several industries. He also engineered a measurement system for these chairs.

Once the data was collected, our engineer helped the company’s technical team identify statistically significant loadings and create an accelerated durability test that would be used to validate redesigns. The customer usage database will also be a valuable resource for future designs.

Benefit: Company designers were able to improve product life and extend the duration of warranty to their customers.

Services:
Measurement methods design
Analysis to construct durability test