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2015 Design & Project Exhibition the Joseph Black Lecture 2015 Design & Project Exhibition The Joseph Black Lecture Project to Product The creation of the Moutain Trike All-Terrain Wheelchair Business Tim Morgan Inventor and Managing Director Untitled-3 1 15/05/2015 10:54:16 design ex booklet 2015 - Final 1.indd 1 28/08/2015 16:02:54 design ex booklet 2015 - Final 1.indd 2 28/08/2015 16:02:54 design ex booklet 2015 - Final 1.indd 1 28/08/2015 16:02:55 1970 1979 Exhibition Design for maintenance in 1986 British Rail The Car of the Year 2000 1971 K Taylor A.C.Rudd BSc (Eng) FSAE Exhibition Chief Mechanical & Electrical Managing Director Engineer Lotus Engineering Ltd 1972 British Railways Board Some thoughts on design 1987 and designers 1980 Design for living Dr T Emerson Effective industrial innovation Sir Montague Finniston GKN Ltd and its contribution to FEng FRS Britain’s economic recovery 1973 V J Osola 1988 The Design Council and Chief Executive Design: The common goal engineering Redman Heenan John Butcher M.P. G E P Constable International Parliamentary Under Head of Engineering Design, Secretary of Department of Design Council 1981 Trade & Industry Investment in new product 1974 development 1989 Design as a team game Viscount Caldecote DSC Industry: design & young E McEwen FEng people Vice-Chairman Chairman Delta Group plc Ivor Owen Engineering Joseph Lucas Director Ltd 1982 The Design Council The context of design Sir Kenneth Corfield 1975 Chairman & Chief Executive 1990 The Ralph Shire Memorial Standard Telephones & Effective management of Lecture: Design problems in Cables Ltd design aircraft gas turbines Peter Hills L Haworth FRS 1983 SERC - Engineering Design Director Higher innovation: the Co-ordinator Rolls-Royce (1971) Ltd management of creative The Design Council disorder 1976 Sir Basil Blackwell FEng 1991 Innovation in engineering Vice-Chairman and Chief Competing with better design Executive Westland plc products in less time Dr A Moulton CBE Keith Nichols Director 1984 UK Marketing Manager Molton Developments Ltd Designing for dependability (CIM) Digital Equipment Ltd in advanced power plant and 1977 associated systems 1992 Ship design Dr W Rizk CBE FEng Concorde and its successor R J Daniels OBE FIMechE Sidney Swadling Director General of Ships Chairman Director of Engineering & Head of Royal Corps of GEC Diesels Ltd and GEC- British Aerospace Airbus Ltd Naval Constructors Ruston Gas Turbines Ltd) 1985 1993 1978 Metrology in the field of The design’s craft Better design for British industry engineering Dr G B R Feilden CBE Sir William Barlow FEng Director General David McMurtry Chairman & Chief Executive Chairman & Chief Executive British Standards Institution of BICC, Chairman of the Design Council Renishaw plc 2 design ex booklet 2015 - Final 1.indd 2 28/08/2015 16:02:56 1994 2001 2008 Tribology in machine design The Farnborough F1 Air Taxi: Design and manufacture: Professor Duncan Dowson, an evolution in air travel dealing with technical CBE, FRS, FEng Richard Noble OBE cultural aspects The University of Leeds Farborough Aircraft Dipl.-Ing. Frank Ludwig BMW Group 1995 2002 Design to thrive Designing the human knee 2009 Prof. Ivan Yates, CBE FEng Professor John O’Connor Design, innovation and Royal Academy of Oxford Orthopaedic competition: establishing the Engineering Engineering Centre balance Visiting Professor, Eng Dept. George W Buckley University of cambridge 2003 3M Council Member, Challenging the design The Design Council process models 2010 Professor Mogens Myrup Health and safety: the cradle 1996 Andreasen to grave approach Innovation-led Technical University of Judith Hackett competitiveness: through Denmark Health and Safety Executive equivalence in product organisation, 2004 2011 technology and culture Information knowledge Designing a spaceship for Professor Gordon Edge management in an everybody: the engineering The Generics Group international design firm challenges of commercial Mike Shears CBE spaceflight 1997 Arup Group Jonathan Firth Engineering and design: Virgin Galactic against the odds 2005 James Dyson Balancing conflicting needs 2012 Dyson Appliances by design Engineering Sustainability: Geoff E Kirk the role of design and 1998 Civil Aerospace, Rolls-Royce engineering in sustainable Technological innovation: a plc innovation managed resource Professor Jeremy Watson Professor Chris Pearce 2006 Arup Group Inbis Group pl Advanced technology for space exploration 2013 1999 Professor Erik K Antonsson Inventing Your Future The creation of the Goss NASA Jet Propulsion Tom Pellereau Challenger Laboratory: 2002-2006 Aventom Ltd Adrian Thompson Paragon Mann Ltd 2007 2014 The engineering challenges Form follows function - Strive 2000 of large scale structures for for perfection and beauty is The birth of a Morgan: wind energy generation the by-product innovation and tradition Dr Ian Chatting Ron Dennis CBE create a new sports car Vestas Technology UK McLaren Group Charles Morgan Morgan Motor Company 3 design ex booklet 2015 - Final 1.indd 3 28/08/2015 16:02:56 Welcome to the 2015 Design and Project Exhibition and to the Joseph Black Lecture given by the Tim Morgan of Mountaintrike This booklet contains details of the 23 We want to be able to replicate the suc- Group Design and Business projects, cess of our key note speaker, Tim Mor- including Mechanical, Aerospace, Au- gan. Tim was displaying his final year tomotive (Formula Student) projects design project at this Design and Project undertaken by 3rd year students, and Exhibition in 2007. He entered into con- the 192 individual engineering pro- versation with local business man David jects taken by 4th year students. It Rogers, a few connections were made, also contains details of the 38 Inte- conversations, business plans, develop- grated Mechanical and Electrical En- ment and a lot of hard work followed and gineering (IMEE) projects. Details of the rest, as they say, is history all projects are included on the Depart- ments website at https://wiki.bath.ac.uk/ Thus we are delighted to welcome Tim display/MechEngDesignExhibition/Home Morgan, who is both Chief Designer and Managing Director of the MountainTrike The diversity of project activity is again Company, to give his keynote address there for everyone to see, this is across “Project to Product - The creation of both the individual engineering projects the Mountain Trike All-Terrain Wheel- and the Group Design and Business pro- chair Business” jects. It reflects the great strength of the Department. There have been a couple of important developments in the design area. We now have the Dyson Chair in Design Engineering. This is a 50/50 academic/ practice role at the insistence of the funder. So we are delighted to have our former Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Innovation, Gareth Jones in the role. Interestingly, he was Dyson employee number 6. The “product innovation funding”, has Professor Steve Culley now expanded considerably. We have added to the first two, the Herrington and On behalf of all in the Department who the Embleton bursaries, with three more contribute. from Jon Craton, Mark Farmer and Peter Keevil. This growing portfolio will give us the opportunity to support, and take to the next stage, final year projects of a wide variety of types. 4 design ex booklet 2015 - Final 1.indd 4 28/08/2015 16:02:56 Tim Morgan Project to Product - The creation of the Mountain Trike All-Terrain Wheelchair Business The Mountain Trike is a revolutionary all terrain wheelchair designed to give wheelchair users far greater freedom and independence to access and enjoy the countryside. It is the brainchild of British design engineer, Tim Morgan, who was inspired by his love of mountain biking to develop a true manual all terrain wheelchair that would enable wheelchair users to ride off road in the same way he does on his bike. He identified a significant gap in the market for a manual wheelchair that was off road capable, but also combined this performance with everyday practicality in order to fit into the person’s lifestyle. Over a period of four years, the Mountain Trike was developed from Tim Morgan’s fi- nal year Masters project at the University of Bath, to a fully certified product launched to the market in August 2011. Since then, the product has been very well received with sales avenues developed worldwide and manufacture facilities setup in the UK. After graduation, Tim accepted a role with his degree sponsor, Bentley Motor Cars, which provided him with the income to live, whilst continuing to work on the Mountain Trike during his spare time. Over a period of three years, development of Proto 2 was carried out in tandem with the other commercial aspects needed to setup the business: market research, product cost and specification of standard components were all additional influences on the design and naturally presented further chal- lenges. A cyclical process of developing prototypes and testing them with wheelchair users was adopted to progress the design. Four cycles of design and test iterations were completed to progress from the initial concept to the final production model. The principles of lever drive, direct steering, independent suspension, disc brakes and three wheeled arrangement formed the core of the Mountain Trike’s design and still feature on the final version. The fourth and final design iteration was the production level, MT4. It included various refinements, final production components and high quality surface finishing. The Mountain Trike is a prime example of how an iterative design and prototype process can be used to develop a university project into a highly successful product. This keynote address outlines the processes used and the challenges faced in this journey from Project to Product 5 design ex booklet 2015 - Final 1.indd 5 28/08/2015 16:02:58 Our most grateful thanks and acknowledgements are due to the companies identified below and in the following pages for proposing and sponsoring this year’s design projects.
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