Welcome to 3D CAD Design Updates. The world of computer aided design is changing all the time. Subscribing will get you every interesting story and event as it happens. If you to subscribe to my RSS Feed click on the Orange button. Lets get into whats happening below...
This is an excellent repair video if you own a Midea U window air conditioner, or any air window AC with mould issues. Some modern window AC's have gotten rid of condensate water drains in the name of getting a tiny increase in efficiency. You need to put the holes back to let the water out. The video shows how to properly clean a window AC and make sure water does not collect inside it.
Continue reading "Simple hack gets rid of Air Conditioner Mould"
This Canada Day we remember just 2 of the thousands of Canadians who have made this country great. There's Engineer George Klein, who designed an amazing snow vehicle, created the first electric wheelchair and then finished off with coming up with the first small scale nuclear reactor. And then there's heroic Private Jess Randall LaRochelle who single handedly saved his entire unit from a rocket attack in Afghanistan while being severely wounded himself. It's very humbling to read about the selfless dedication these people gave to their country
It seems you cant go too far wrong specializing in the manufacture of steel transformer cores like Tempel Canada does. The company located in my hometown of Burlington, Ontario has just announced a multi million dollar plant expansion.
Tempel makes transformer cores and these are used in dozens of huge data centers in construction and planning stages all across Ontario. You cant be a transformer supplier and be offshore because these things are heavy and cost a fortune to ship to the jobsite. The suppliers need to be in Ontario and so thats Burlington's gain.
If you own a cottage by the lake but it's on located a hill getting you and all your stuff in there can be hard work.
Marine Innovations builds hillside trams, a little platform on a track that carries you and all your luggage up the hill, much like a the way a senior lift chair works inside your home on the stairs.
All Weather Windows & Doors of Edmonton Alberta Canada has taken advantage of its manufacturing plants huge roof are to install a massive solar panel power generation system.
The system supplies enough surplus power on the weekends to power 1500 local Edmonton homes.
Continue reading "1.3 Gigawatt solar power plant on company roof"
Cooling water and its management are hugely important in new AI data centers. In Hamilton, Ontario we are looking at new AI data center which will sit on the land of a former steelmaking plant, the new data centre will draw its cooling water from Burlington Bay, just like the steel foundry did.
The article goes into the impact of all the local parties who are involved in supplying and maintaining, cooling water and the huge impact decisions can have on it's operation.
Continue reading "Cooling Water hugely important to AI Data Center"
During the commissioning or startup of a new data huge volumes of clean water is needed just to clean the site. Big Data centers have to be in an ultra clean environment to function effieciently.
Vertiv is a company that is bringing technology to the construction site to manage huge volumes of water and reduce the need for hundreds of water truck shipments by recycling, cleaning and purifying used water on site.
Here's an impressive setup for recycling that illustrates the circular economy in one quick video. Used 3D printed parts to turn bottles into strips, then a 3D print head to melt the strips into filament and 3D printer take up reel to wind the filament. To top it off he makes more take up reels using the filament he just created. Just Genius !
Continue reading "Pop bottles recycled into 3D printer filament"
This mini tabletop diode laser takes photos of obsolete gaskets and includes its own CAD system so you can sketch the cutting profile. If you are in a business where you often need gaskets to repair old equipment it's a real timesaver. As well,it can make better quality gaskets than are often provided with new equipment.
Continue reading "Mini desktop laser with gasket making Add-On"
Burlington, Ontario company Vac-Aero specializes in high temperature vacuum furnaces for heat treatment of aircraft parts. Thanks to a big order from Seattle Washington USA based Boeing Aircraft They will be spending the next 48 weeks building heat treatment furnaces for the worlds premier aircraft manufacturer.
Continue reading "Burlington Ontario Heat treatment Furnace chosen by Boeing Aircraft"
Forest fires have released poisonous dioxins and furans into our atmosphere for thousands upon thousands of years and will contunue to do so. The wood burning fireplaces that we have loved for hundreds of years are no different. Restricting an air curtain incinerator which is designed to reduce dioxin and furan emissions from burning disaster waste materials makes so sense. Especially since the time it will be running will produce almost zero emissions compared to what is already in the atmosphere.
Continue reading "Air Curtain Incinerator regulations to be relaxed"
How many times do we lose the retaining pins for the 2 wheel hand truck, you can always have spares available by making a jig like this.
Just putting multiple hole locations in the base would allow you to bend up a wide variety of custom retaining pins that you could use for a thousand different applications
Continue reading "Pin bending jig belongs in every hardware store"
Yale University Professor W.Edwards Deming laid the groundwork for the Toyota Production System and Lean Manufacturing but was completely ignored when he tried to interest USA auto manufacturing companies about the importance of quality and zero defects in the 1950's.
Continue reading "W. E. Deming the godfather of Lean Six Sigma"
China makes 96% of the worlds dry shipping containers and 100% of the refrigerated ones. All from a product that was invented and perfected in the USA by a truck driver who went on to start his own international shipping company.
Continue reading "China completely dominates shipping container manufacturing"
Bry-Air dessicant rotors Ltd in Gurgaon India has developed a new dessicant technology that it says makes large industrial size dehumidifiers much more efficient
Continue reading "India company have dehumidifier dessicant technology breakthrough"
MRI machines cost hundreds of thousands of dollars but Ultrasound machines are everywhere. This Ontario, Canada company has come up with a 3D Scanner attachment that practically turns any ultrasound machine into an MRI scanner.
It creates 3D images of pathology that allows doctors to see blood vessels, tissue and accurately diagnose problems right in their own offices.
Continue reading "Ultrasound machine turned into 3D MRI Scanner"
Very cool looking Corten steel perforated metal facade protects the outside of this building in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia.
The whole facades is made up of massive doors with remote control actuators that open up to reveal the windows
Continue reading "Massive Perforated metal doors protect building"
UK Company AUAR is betting on its robot house framing carpenter to build wall, floor and roof panels in record time with great accuracy.
Prefabricating wood frame wall panels indoors inplant is already a much more efficient way of building homes quickly.
Using the robot carpenter and especially the panel fixture will drive up accuracy, repeatability and speed and allow the actual human carpenter to save their body.
Letting the Robot do all the heavy hauling while the human Carpenter programs the robot for the next house.
Baghouses are vital a piece of anti polltion equipment for the clean operation of modern municipal waste incinerators. But the important caveat is that these incinerators must be kept continuously working 24/7 365 days a year holding constant high combustionn temperatures.
Any time the combustion temperature drops unburned pollutant vapours get through the secondary combustion process and condense into corrosive liquids inside the baghouse.
This article goes into ways to prevent this but it underscores how important it is to keep the incinerator operating for total combustion so that pollutants dont get out the stack
An Aluminum foundry in Georgia, USA recently had a Baghouse dust explosion that shows just how dangerous aluminum dust can be.
Of all dusts, aluminum is one of the most explosive, even in tiny concentrations. A significant amount of money has to be spent on safety equipment just to manage the threat of a potential blast.
Continue reading "Aluminum dust huge baghouse explosion risk"