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Plugging into next-generation Canadian green power with SOLIDWORKS
Everyone knows that using natural gas to generate electricity is cleaner and more environmentally friendly than burning coal. Because coal is less costly, power companies need to utilize innovative technologies that increase the efficiency of natural gas-based generation systems to overcome the primary obstacle to replacing coal-fired power plants. That’s what Eastern Power Limited did…
Accelerating the development of innovative Canadian oilfield solutions with SOLIDWORKS software
Meeting the equipment needs of today’s fast-paced oil and gas industry demands responsiveness, innovation, and accuracy. As the largest privately owned Oilfield Solutions company in Canada, with international operations stretching around the globe, Sanjel Corporation embraces the use of design technology to promptly deliver better performing, more reliable products to gas and petroleum-producing customers. Sanjel engineers…
SOLIDWORKS 3D modeling plays a role in Canadian water treatment and conservation
Javelin Technologies is best known as a Value-Added Reseller (VAR) of SOLIDWORKS® software, but some of its customers are advancing their projects by having Javelin do the 3D design work for them. David Bromley is an engineering consultant specializing in municipal and industrial water treatment. He is involved in developing new methods of treating water…
DriveWorks-based SmartQuote system helps Thordon Bearings manage international dealer network
On the Thordon Bearings website, you’ll find a cool widget that keeps track of the volume of oil discharges the company’s products have prevented to date. That number today? More than 62 million litres. Their business is bearings – designing and manufacturing large-scale bearing systems and seals for industries such as ship building and hydro-electric…
SOLIDWORKS tools help Canadian Aeryon Labs designers optimize and customize world-leading drones
Ask Glen Johannesson to tell you the coolest part of his job and he laughs and says, “It’s all cool. I make flying robots.” Glen is Mechanical Architect for Aeryon Labs and a mechanical engineer. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Aeryon design Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) for a range of applications around the world. Aeryon had…
Spartan CAD “attacks” 3D with the power of SOLIDWORKS and a partnership with Javelin
In the spring of 2012, engineer and entrepreneur David Janelle saw the future. Working on his own, with a couple of contracted engineers, David invested in three licenses of SOLIDWORKS. It was an ambitious move – he didn’t even have enough 3D design work to make use of the software full time. Three years later,…