kenyon kluge inboard -- driving production innovation through race technology -- 310816
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Kenyon KlugeVP of EngineeringInboard [email protected]
Technology developed for performance, specifically racing, occurs with
requirements and in an environment that produces innovation out of necessity on
an accelerated schedule. Engineers can focus purely on the application without all
the business concerns that go along with selling a product. The applications are
much more extreme than normal use cases and thus produces innovations that can
drastically improve commercial product.
Driving production innovation through race technology
© Inboard Technology 2016 - Confidential document
SUMMARYDeveloping for performance quickly reveals where your next bottleneck
lies.
Evaluating the goals and environment produces a gap analysis of what
needs improvement.
Its up to the engineers to determine how to best implement improvements
to components with a full system view in mind.
Focused testing reveals the answer to whether the gap has been closed or
not.
Much like an agile sprint, race day comes and all the iteration up to that
point is tested. When the race is over you start the next sprint to the
following race.
With the goal in mind of winning or doing better than the last time you
competed inspires a team like no other for mof motivation.
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Performance EnvironmentTrack: Laguna Seca
Track Distance: 2.238 miles
Date: July 15th (in 6 months)
Race length: 10 laps 22.38 miles (+ 1 warm up lap 1 cool down lap 26.856m)
Conditions: 50F - 90F Sunny to foggy drizzly (Laguna Seca is prone to highly variable conditions)
Lap time needed to win: 1:30:00
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Zero’s Technology progression 2008 First Beta Product-43Vnom Brushed motor
2009 First Production Product-52Vnom Brushed motor
2010 First Race bike-74Vnom Brushed motor
2011 Second Gen Race bike-93Vnom Custom Brushless motor
2012 Second Gen Product-65.7Vnom Brushless motor
2012 Production bikes raced
2013 Third Gen Product-103Vnom Custom Brushless Motor
2013 Production race bike with Controller and suspension
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Development
Motor Development
Brushed motors
● Cooling the brushes
● Cooling the rotor
● Raise the voltage to decrease current
Brushless motors
● More control
● Better cooling
● Less wear and maintenance
Brushless motor cooling
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ROLLOUT
Apr 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
First product
Voltage increase 52V-74V-93V-103V
Performance
Brushed motor improvements
Brushless motor
Custom brushless motor
Brushless motor Improvements
Motor controller
Improved suspension and chassis development
Performance
Increase
Lap Times
decrease
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Summary
Racing is a continual gap analysis between desired results and current results.
To integrate this back into product improvements the technology and application
needs to be evaluated to take advantage of innovations in a real world way.
Consumers want race technology but in an easy to digest, user friendly
application. They want their refined product only better.
Racing inspires a team both to produce exceptional innovation in the performance
effort as well as in their daily work.
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