Manufacturing
Technology
Advanced Design and Product Development
Our award-winning, Algonquin-unique manufacturing processes are certified to automotive and internationally recognized quality standards.
Team
- Industrial designers
- Process engineers
- Product engineers
- Quality engineers
- Program managers
- Test engineers
Test Facilities
- Extensive in-house product validation capability including:
- Hot and cold temperature impact
- Rough road durability
- Environmental testing
- Static and dynamic load testing
- Vibration testing
- Airbag deployment
- Photometrics
- Coating performance
- Crash behaviour
- Design for DIO/PIO installations
- Finite element analysis and verification
- ISO 17025 accredited
CAD Capabilities:
- IDEAS/Unigraphics/NX2
- Catia
- ALIAS
On-Site Prototyping Shop:
- Metal forming
- Urethane (pour and foam)
- Wood
- Fibreglass
- ABS FDM rapid prototyping
Product Development Process:
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) includes:
- Conceptual design using ALIAS
- Mechanical design, CAD
- Strength simulation through Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Part prototyping
- Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
- Product validation, Design Verification Plan and Report (DVP&R)
- Part fit-up
- Design for Manufacturing/Assembly (DFM/DFA)
- Process flow
- Control plan
- Pre-Production Approval Process (PPAP)
