ABB | Designing A Micro-controller Enclosure | Consumer Product | User-Centred Design, Testing, Design For Manufacture

An innovative case design that is clipped together for a completely screw-free finish and which is mounted via a concealed base plate, saving on manufacturing, assembly and installation costs.

ABB came to us with an award-winning micro-controller drive. With development nearing completion, ABB needed help creating a more stylish case which would snap together to reduce fastenings and assembly time.

Our integrated branding + user-centred design produced improved assembly and thermodynamics to deal with the heat loss of their powerful motor control technology.

The Result? A heat sink that uses a semi-external heat dissipation method that mounts side by side with other drives and still dissipates enough heat at low power to allow the smart cooling fan to be shut down to save energy and for silent running.

ABB came to us with an award winning micro controller drive. With development nearing completion, ABB needed help creating a more stylish case, which would snap together to reduce fastenings

and assembly time.

This new case also needed to mount more easily in confined spaces whilst improving the thermodynamic performance to deal with the heat loss of their powerful motor control technology.

By designing the heat sink to use a semi-external heat dissipation method, we created a product that mounts side by side with other drives or other ‘hot’ products, but still dissipate enough heat at low power to allow the smart cooling fan to be shut down to save energy and for silent running.