USB Mount Bracket for Terminal

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About four months ago, my supervisor approached me with a budget-friendly solution for our dock terminals on the forklifts. The drivers were repeatedly crossing over the dock plates and the USB ports were shaking loose from the back, ultimately causing damage to the USB connection points due to constant vibration when the USB connectors for keyboards and scanners were not fully inserted. I have 2.5 meters of PLA filament per module, which allows me to produce approximately ninety units at a cost of about twenty dollars each. Our docking mounts currently cost five hundred dollars apiece and we experience damage to around four to eight of them every month, necessitating replacement. With two hundred forty forklifts nationwide, the math speaks for itself. In terms of size, I estimate that my printer can accommodate printing between twenty to thirty units at a time. Currently, the infill level is set at ten percent, but I plan to increase it to twenty-five percent for production purposes due to the expected vibrations. I understand this design is one-of-a-kind; however, I am providing both the Fusion export and STL files so that others can modify them as needed to suit their specific requirements.