Beer bottle machine wins design contest

The winner of the 2005 Autodesk Inventor Customer Design Contest was the world's fastest beer bottle swing stopper closing machine.

The winner of the 2005 Autodesk Inventor Customer Design Contest was the world's fastest beer bottle swing stopper closing machine.

Alexander Schlosser of Rico-Maschinenbau of Germany was chosen as the overall winner out of more than 300 entries.

Three customers from the UK were also among the winners: AGR Automation, with its design of a modular product assembly platform; JE Engineering, with a cast inlet manifold for a V8 engine; and the Medical Engineering Resource Unit, with its design of an electrically powered indoor wheelchair for children.

Now in its fourth year, the contest is an opportunity for all Autodesk Inventor customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, to showcase products they have designed using Autodesk Inventor.

The contest was co-sponsored by HP and the best design entries won an HP Workstation XW4300 and an HP Designjet 70 large format printer, among other prizes.

Customers were invited to submit an Inventor Model or DWF file of one or more of their designs.

Entries covering all aspects of mechanical design were welcome, from machinery design to consumer products, and from small parts to large assemblies.

Kevin Ison, Manufacturing Sales Director for Autodesk Northern Europe, said: "The variety and diversity of the Autodesk Inventor user community means that many of our customers have created great designs with Inventor across many areas of manufacturing design".

"We were delighted to hear from our customers how much time and money they are saving and that they are improving the quality of their designs with Autodesk Inventor".

Atlas Copco of Belgium won second prize with its FD95 industrial dryer design.

The dryer is used to get water out of air systems by using a refrigerant that first cools down the air to almost 0C and then warms it up again a few degrees to create condensation.

This condensation is then drained electrically and the oil and water separated.

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