Kota A3 Oven

Client: Kota Equipamentos

The A3 Oven for denture is the renewal of Kota’s identity, a Brazilian company in the dental industry. Its construction was perfected and the assembly, optimized: there are fewer welds and bolts, reduced parts and painting and increased internal space. It has two unique features: elevator canal lock, which prevents the prostheses from falling into the furnace and the prosthetic support area in tempered glass, which allows for better organization in the workplace and makes cleaning the equipment easier. It has LCD display and a redesigned programming logic which had been identified as confusing during the research phase. It was made simple and intuitive.

The A3 Oven emerged from the Kota brand identity design. With the oven, a whole product line was created: the Aoshima Collection, that consists of two more ovens and a photo-curing machine.

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Awards

Red Dot Award 2011 | Winner

IDEA Brasil 2009 | Silver

SENAI SP Excellence Design 2010 | Bronze

SENAI SP Excellence Design 2010 | Selecionado para a Mostra

25° Design Museu da Casa Brasileira Award | Selected for exhibition

CREDIT

Project developed in collaboration with Kota Equipamentos engineering team.

Photo-curing machine

Client: Kota Equipamentos | Manufacturer: Preumec and CNZ

The KotaLux photo-curing machine for dental prostheses is part of the new product family of Kota equipment, a Brazilian company in the dental industry. It has programmable electronic timer, easy access to the exchange of 4 dichroic lamps without tools, guillotine door and cooler. The project was designed after extensive research about the market, technology and use, resulting in cosmetic modernization and new functional solutions.

We tried to optimize KotaLux’s manufacturing and assembly, reducing the number of parts, bolts and welds. The technical standards of UL and CE for future sales in Europe we adopted voluntarily. The KotaLux photo-curing machine emerged from the Kota brand identity project. With it a whole product line was created: the Aoshima Collection that consists of three ovens for denture, one of them being the A3 Oven.

CREDIT

Project developed in collaboration with Kota Equipamentos engineering team.