New Design For Industrial Electronics Enclosure Range Help Drive Sales

Phil Black - PII Editor 01/09/2017

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Award winning product design company 4D Products is working with Invertek Drives to supply development services on a range of its industrial electronics enclosures.
Invertek Drives is a global manufacturer of Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs / AC Drives) for energy efficient control of variable speed electric motors.

North West based 4D Products developed the enclosures with a quick turnaround for a trade show at which Invertek wanted to test reaction to the new product concepts.

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Iain McCall, Co-Founder and Design Director for 4D Products
Glyn Jones, technical director at Invertek had researched design companies on the internet based on previous work experience and quality and selected 4D Products to help the team take their products to a new level of design and functionality.

Always focused on enhancing products, 4D Products’ Co-Founder and Design Director Iain McCall and his colleagues completed CAD work on existing enclosures for Invertek before being asked to support work for the exhibition.

Close-up of the Invertek Drives enclosure

Iain said; “The deadlines, two to three weeks, were very tight and although 3D visuals would have done, a prototype was ideal to show the new product enclosure variant and test reaction at the show.”

Glyn Jones, technical director at Invertek said: “The model arrived on time and it looked great especially considering how short the time was that 4D Products had it for.

The design was spot on and after exhibiting at the show there were product improvements suggested to add to the design.” He added; “The fast turnaround and success of this project has now moved on to Invertek working with 4D on three new projects.”

LtoR: James Bell and Iain McCall outside 4D Products’ Sci-Tech Daresbury office at the innovation campus

Iain continued; “The challenges were to deliver a new, purpose built casing with multiple inputs and outputs, a circuit board, fan and displays all of which needs isolating and styling.

We’ve also designed the casing to be snap fit for easy production and for heat dispersion, with minimum cost and maximum flexibility. For example, a simple change to part of the front panel will allow additional revenue streams for the product.

Working with Invertek’s design team and the suggestions from potential customers at the show we will be creating a family of parts and products in Invertek’s brand colours for world-wide sales and world-class products.”

For more information on the project and the process of design please visit: www.4dproducts.co.uk

For information on the products please visit: www.invertekdrives.com