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Bosch's first battery-driven concrete nailer is a triumph of close collaboration between engineering, manufacturing, and design experts.
Bosch holds a strong market position in concrete tools - known as one of the highest quality brands for professional commercial construction. They approached my team to transition their highly engineered concrete nailer to a cordless, battery-driven platform to outpace with competitors.
We tore down and reviewed various competitors to understand manufacturing efficiency best practices and to avoid patented mechanisms in a highly protected product category. Working closely with our manufacturing partner, this led us to a unique architecture that increased our performance compared with the market. The biggest challenge was crafting a product architecture that could contain all of these disparate engineering triumphs into a single, cohesive, and high-performing tool.
Functional prototype CAD provided by engineering and manufacturing partners.
Initial sketch concepts.
Concept refinement with stakeholders in workshop.
Concept A.
Concept B.
Concept C.
Implementing engineering and manufacturing feedback.
Implementing engineering and manufacturing feedback.
The Bosch GNB18V-12 has become the go-to tool of choice for large commercial construction companies. The high quality, performance, reliability, durability, and usability of Bosch tools is ever-present in this new battery-driven tool that secured the brand's legacy in the concrete market.
If you're curious to learn more, please reach out:
rosscbrinkman@gmail.com