What?
Determined if adding a fixture and process was necessary during service.
Designed fixture to forcibly extract parts during disassembly.
How?
Created process flow charts for the previous and proposed service methods, and performed a financial analysis of both.
Used Creo to model and design the fixture.
Results
Found that adding a fixture and process would reduce service costs by over $1.3 million over 5 years.
Presented design and findings to the team.