Team 27: How to get rid-of ovality of the tubing received on the spool and before it gets on to the automation.
A device designed to remove ovality from medical grade PVC tubing before entering an automated manufacturing process.
Terumo BCT required the removal of ovality from blood tubing within a fully-automated manufacturing process. Unacceptable tubing ovality has prevented increased production rates, and rendered a large portion of the tubing unusable. Our objective was to design and fabricate a high-speed manufacturing device that reforms the tubing through heat and mechanical manipulation before entering automation.
Sponsorship
Terumo
Director
Paul Brayford
Team Members
- Nick Brahill
- Isaiah Curtis
- Brad Kittrell
- Kyle McDonnell
- Alex Seymour
- Yiwen Shen