Hamilton Stamping eliminates product costs through innovation

Betacom is a company which brings the power of video and advanced micro circuitry together to create a new generation of breakthrough portable vision enhance solutions in the form of the VisAble™ family of innovative, highly versatile vision enhancement aids.

Their challenge involved improving the system in which the battery was held in place on their Visual Video Telescope 300. . Their initial solution involved using off-the-shelf components, which they manually transformed at significant labour cost into a clip to meet their need.

One of our suppliers suggested to Betacom that Hamilton Stamping could offer a better solution. They phoned us and highlighted the problem. We agreed that their challenge was worth tackling. Betacom brought along some drawings and a suggested solution in the form of a special part which was screwed into place.

After much thought, we found a much more innovative solution in the form of a folded over stamped part which could simply be press fitted into place with very little insertion pressure. Using Pro-Engineer CAD/CAM software technology we designed the necessary parts to precisely fit their systems as described in their CAD/CAM models. This included changing their overall systems design for an optimum fit. To eliminate any concerns that it could work loose, we demonstrated that the part could not be removed without seriously damaging it.

The parts set consisted of two battery terminals (stamped from beryllium copper) and a battery retainer (stamped from ¾ hard 301 stainless steel). Over 5,000 sets have been produced.

For this customer, Hamilton Stamping developed an innovative solution to the customer's needs and eliminated a labour intensive solution saving the customer significant costs.