A leading North American irrigation product company wanted to do benchmark the performance of their existing lawn sprinkler systems and develop a new family of lawn sprinkler systems based on the benchmark results.

Axiom was contracted to develop a test methodology for benchmarking, test setup development and data capture. This was followed by data synthesis and design specifications definition for the new series of sprinkler systems. Using these specifications new sprinkler series was designed and developed in a 3D CAD system. The sprinkler design was followed by tool development for injection molding of the sprinklers. The sprinkler system new design was tested using the same test procedures and the performance was optimized to exceed the performance of the benchmarked sprinkler.

Project Highlights

• Designed , developed and fabricated a test bed for lawn sprinkler performance testing
  
• Design of a family of domestic lawn sprinklers
  
• Complete product design using 3D CAD system
  
• Virtual engineering using CFD tools for performance estimation
  
• Tool design and engineering for plastics injection molding
  
• Injection molding of individual parts
  
• System integration.
  
• Testing of early prototypes
  
• Multiple Prototype build and prove out
  
• Detailed Design for Manufacture and Assembly

Result :

• Performance metrics of the existing lawn sprinkler was established using custom test bed and was recorded as baseline
  
• A new family of lawn sprinklers were developed which exceed the performance of their popular line in the market

Core Competency Leverage:

Innovation, Design and Prototyping Skills, CAD, CAE, Tool design Engineering, Testing and validation