PR-2018-01
A simulator in two suitcases
01Challenge
The existing simulator was bulky and expensive to reproduce. Training in different locations needed something easier to pack, transport and build again.
02Solution
I developed a custom control board and firmware, replaced costly industrial controls with microcontrollers, and designed vacuum-formed enclosures from printed prototypes. A specialist manufacturer produced the circuit boards.
03Result
The controls and enclosures formed a repeatable simulator package that could travel in two suitcases.
- Sector
- Offshore drilling equipment
- Period
- Mar 2018 – Mar 2019
- Role
- Product developer, product designer and PCB developer
- Stack
- C++
- Microcontrollers
- PCB design
- Fusion 360
- Siemens STEP 7
