Modularization and standardization of New Flyer Industries bus seat mounting : final design report
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Date
2012-02-24
Authors
Dobson, Chris
Liu, Jilu
Lagimodiere, Brianne
Shao, Jingbo
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Abstract
The final design report for the Modularization and Standardization of New Flyer
Industries (NFI) Bus Seat Mounting outlines the introduction and as such the
background of modularized bus seating project. NFI is looking to acquire a Universal
Lower Support (ULS) for six of the seats used for NFI bus seat layouts. There is a
subsection of the introduction that features the concepts that were considered for the
Lower Support Structure (LSS) design. The Features of the proposed design as well as
the limitations of the proposed design are detailed in the section titled details of the
design. The operation of the design, cost analysis and reduction of parts are sections
that are also included in this report.
Simple hand calculations and FEA analysis were completed to analyze the proposed
design for the applied loads that are expected to be applied to the LSS. The hand
calculations and FEA are included in an appendix of the report. Design For Assembly
(DFA), assembly instructions and component weights are included in an appendix of
the report. A Design for Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) was conducted
on the LSS and is also presented in an appendix of this report.
The LSS meets four out of the six seats specified by NFI that were to be included in
the Universal Lower Support (ULS). Therefore the Team designed a LSS instead of a
ULS because two seat styles could not be modularized. The Team makes
recommendations to NFI for the next phase of the project and concludes that NFI
should ask the seat vendors to review their seat styles to make the seat mounting
systems universal.
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New Flyer Industries, bus, seat, mounting, modularization, standardization