2008 Contest Winners
Javelin/SolidWorks "Cool" Design Awards
Javelin Technologies presents the winners of the 2008 "Cool" Design Contest. Entries were submitted from a variety of commercial and educational customers. The entries were judged based on:
- Product Functionality
- Degree of Difficulty of Design Task
- "Coolness" of the Design Contest Entry
Grand Prize Winner
Entry: SPS-Cable-Suspended-Bridge
Designer: Paul Novak
Company: Intelligent Engineering, Ottawa, ON.
Description: This bridge design is a modified configuration for a long span cable-suspended bridge in Texas. The client was looking for a new lightweight technology to extend the span and provide a cleaner look on the bottom, and to improve wind load aerodynamics. Intelligent Engineering's SPS composite plate technology was the ideal choice for the project.
How SolidWorks helped: Architectural designs tend to involve a lot of repetition, but with subtle changes or omissions between one structural component and a seemingly identical neighbor. This is where SolidWorks shines - via Configurations. Using SolidWorks the design time for the project went from 5 weeks down to 2.
Design tools: SolidWorks, SolidWorks Motion
Runner Up
Entry: Veinrunner II
Designer: Paul Dupuis
Company: Mining Technologies Int'l, Sudbury, ON.
Description: The Veinrunner II is a single boom hydraulic drill rig. It's carrier is designed to have a 56 inch overall width and 83 inch maximum height for narrow vein mining. The drill boom can drive a maximum 4.5m x 4.5m drift. This particular model of Veinrunner II has a diesel driven power pack for the hydraulic system.
How SolidWorks helped: SolidWorks Simulation was used to test the cab and the frame's structural integrity in order to meet the ROPS (roll over protection system) standards set by SAE. Using SolidWorks rather than 3D AutoCAD provided a 40% to 50% saving in design time!
Design tools: SolidWorks, SolidWorks Simulation
Green Design Winner
Entry: EE3700 Extruder-Expeller
Designer: Nicholas Leja
Company: Energrow Inc., Newton, ON.
Description: This is an extruder-expeller that allows the end user (typically a farmer) to produce biofuel on-site. This reduces the farmer's carbon footprint as well as input costs. By growing a dedicated crop of fuel-oil seed, the farmer can reduce his/her petroleum fuel consumption by up to 70,000L as well as produce a value feed by-product for livestock.
How SolidWorks helped: Using Solidworks has drastically reduced our outside engineering and rework costs. It has also accelerated our time to market and provided a great starting point for print ad material. Design time went from 6 months to 6 weeks.
Design tools: SolidWorks Professional, PhotoWorks
Honourable Mention - Innovation
Entry: Merlin 1500
Designer: Hans Paule
Company: Paule Computer Systems Ltd, Markham, ON.
Description: Merlin is the worlds first fully automated convertible bowling pinsetter. It switches from the uniquely Canadian 5 Pin game to the USA Ten pin game in a mater of seconds. This allows our customers to virtually double the use of their lane beds.
How SolidWorks helped: SolidWorks was used to model every aspect of the design, from components to sheet metal. SolidWorks Simulation was instrumental in this successful design, as it allowed us to run this machine virtually long before components were manufactured for prototyping.
Design tools: SolidWorks, SolidWorks Simulation
Honourable Mention - Medical
Entry: Sentinelle Vanguard® G-Series Tabletop System for MRI Breast Imaging and Intervention
Designer: Jakub Jankowski
Company: Sentinelle Medical Inc., Toronto, ON.
Description: The Sentinelle Vanguard® G-Series Tabletop System boasts an innovative patient support design with unique Variable Coil Geometry to transform a leading MRI scanner into a dedicated breast imaging and intervention system. With features not available on traditional breast imaging systems, this next-generation product optimizes imaging, access, patient care, patient comfort, and dramatically improves workflow efficiency.
Design tools: SolidWorks Professional
Honourable Mention - Education
Entry: SJ Dashboard
Designer: Soheil Jahed
Company: Humber College, Etobicoke, ON.
Description: This design represents a sport utility dashboard in which all the components were simplified and designed in a smarter way. Sitting in such an environment can give an enjoyable feeling to a driver and also the other passenger in the car.
How SolidWorks helped: Using SolidWorks helped me to achieve the best results possible in detailing and forming the overall shape of the dashboard. By using Photoworks I was able to bring this concept to life.
Design tools: SolidWorks, PhotoWorks
Honourable Mention - Mold
Entry: Fully Automated Mold
Designer: Branko Karapancev
Company: Die-Mold Tool Ltd., Georgetown, ON.
Description: A fully automated mold for plastic products for plumbing industry, which is a specialized area of Die-Mold Tool Ltd.
How SolidWorks helped: Die-Mold Tool Ltd use simulation, to determine open and closed position of molds. Sometimes there are really difficult rotations and movements of cores, and simulation is necessary to proof ability of correct and quality production.
Design tools: SolidWorks
Honourable Mention - Heavy Machinery
Entry: Tuned Mass Damper (TMD)
Designer: Andrew Smith
Company: RWDI Inc., Guelph, ON.
Description: The tuned mass damper (TMD) illustrated is one of an identical pair to be installed in a skyscraper in New York City. Each TMD weighs 325 tons and they are employed to minimize the sway of the building during windstorms.
How SolidWorks helped: As this is a relatively complicated machine of significant mass and prototyping is not feasible, we depended on SolidWorks Motion and SolidWorks Simulation to verify the physics of the design as well as providing the load combinations and load paths to allow for our detailed design including stress and fatigue analysis.
Design tools: SolidWorks Motion, SolidWorks Simulation
Honourable Mention - Construction
Entry: Water Feature Proposal
Designer: Mark Remennik
Company: Feature Factory, Toronto, ON.
Description: This water feature was proposed for a newly built mall in Russia. The fountain features bubble-free crystal clear streams of water that would jump from one basin to another. The fountain is simple and elegant. It's geometrical form is interrupted with glacier type forms.
How SolidWorks helped: SolidWorks allowed me to create very intricate shapes especially when designing the glacier forms. Rendering capabilities allowed me to create realistic water and ice textures. Most importantly, the mechanical and sculptural aspects of the project were all created within one model.
Design tools: SolidWorks, PhotoWorks
Honourable Mention - Packaging
Entry: ORB-it G2 Print & Apply Labeler
Designer: Douglas F Lovegrove
Company: AG-Tronic Control Systems, Leamington, ON.
Description: The ORB-it G2 labeling system will print lot codes, bar codes, packaged or sell by dates on the label just prior to being gently applied to fruit.
How SolidWorks helped: The labeler was designed in SolidWorks and stressed components were run in SolidWorks Simulation for testing.
Design tools: SolidWorks, SolidWorks Simulation
