The new way to solve engineering challenges
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Konecranes, a company that manufactures chain hoists, turned to GrabCAD's community of over 1 million engineers to crowdsource ideas for a chain wear indicator through an engineering challenge. 43 engineers submitted design entries, with cash awards given to the top 4 designs. Konecranes found that crowdsourcing generated a larger variety and higher quality of ideas faster and cheaper than developing ideas internally.
![The GrabCAD Challenge was a good experience for us to
understand the possibilities of crowdsourcing. We did not have
our own resources available to focus on this [problem].
After going through GrabCAD it was easy for us to continue
internally with the best ideas. We would estimate that we could
do the idea development 50% cheaper this way, compared to
doing it on our own. --Konecranes](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/thenewwaytosolveengineeringchallenges-140225034927-phpapp02/85/The-new-way-to-solve-engineering-challenges-12-320.jpg)
The new way to solve engineering challenges
- 1. The new way to solve engineering challenges
- 2. Konecranes wanted to collect ideas for a chain wear indicator for their chain hoist.
- 3. Normally, they would look for ideas within their own engineering team.
- 4. Instead, they turned to the over 1 million engineers on GrabCAD.
- 5. Here's how GrabCADrs submitted a larger variety and higher quality ideas faster than ever.
- 6. The Challenge Design a chain wear detector Make it mechanical Allow for 5 different chain sizes Use a specific chain wear limit Keep production costs low Cash awards of $6,000 USD for best designs
- 7. 43 entries
- 8. 1st place - Antonio Carlos Babler grabcad.com/library/switch-chain-wear-indicator
- 9. 2nd place - Simonr grabcad.com/library/mechanical-chain-wear-indicator
- 10. 3rd place - Paul Tripon grabcad.com/library/chain-wear-indicator--4
- 11. 4th place - Yadwinder Paul Singh grabcad.com/library/chain-elongation-indicator
- 12. The GrabCAD Challenge was a good experience for us to understand the possibilities of crowdsourcing. We did not have our own resources available to focus on this [problem]. After going through GrabCAD it was easy for us to continue internally with the best ideas. We would estimate that we could do the idea development 50% cheaper this way, compared to doing it on our own. --Konecranes
- 13. Learn more: Chain Wear Indicator Engineering Challenge Results on GrabCAD #crowdsourcing #openengineering #productdesign #industrialdesign #CollaborativeProductDesign #konecranes #grabcad #chainhoist