Energizing Iteration
North American utilities report that nearly 20 percent of all power outages are caused by wildlife contact with exposed energized contact points. Reliaguard was founded by linemen with a singular goal of protecting wildlife from these dangers. To this end they provide a range of guards and conductor covers that protect animals while enhancing reliable energy delivery. Their products are manufactured with a proprietary self-extinguishing no burn no drip polymer. These properties are incredibly important at preventing fire damage.
Since Reliaguard was founded by linemen they understand the unique challenges and demands presented in the power industry. Their equipment needs to:
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Be installed without service interruption
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Survive a range of harsh environmental conditions
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Be reliable enough to last for years
They accomplish this by baking these requirements into their designs. Guards are not simple adhered by tape or zip ties but rather are designed to have hinges and locking mechanism. Furthering the prevention of forest fire making for quick error free installation. This is all made possible with by utilizing of the capabilities at Titanic Design to preform rapid prototyping and design iteration.
“Titanic Design works with us to understand the critical to function attributes of the part and provides recommendations to save us money and print faster and better.”
- Mark Jacobsen, Reliaguard VP of Business Development
Designing Life Saving Equipment With Rapid Prototyping
High quality products are no accident. They take both engineering skill and iteration. The precise fit of the covers and key mating features are the work of careful design paired with iteration. Titanic Designs ability to rapidly produce dimensionally tolerant 3D prints as single parts in 1:1 scale plays a crucial role in enabling Reliaguards products iteration.
Once contacting Titanic Design, Reliagaurd was able to able to prototype parts that contained critical hard to print features with more accuracy and in less time than their in house large format 3d printer. Like many companies 3d printing expertise is not core to their business. Utilizing Titanic Design freed up their internal engineering team to focus on the problems that matter most.
Rebuilding Paradise
After the devastating California Camp fire of winter 2018 (California's most deadly forest fire in its entire history) Religuard worked closely with PG&E to assist in the rebuilding of Paradise's infrastructure going above and beyond to help increase the safety of California's power infrastructure. With two days notice Titanic Design provided new 3D printed prototypes for demonstration at PG&E's training facility. Having previously developed a relationship with and understanding between our engineering staff Titanic Designs staff was able to meet Reliaguard's requirements for the new designs. We are always happy to work with partners like Reliagaurd and help them succeed on their mission to improve the world around us.
“Titanic Design has pulled a rabbit out of the hat and provided same day turnaround for critical parts”
- Mark Jacobsen, Reliaguard VP of Business Development