 Valued customers of C-r-o-s-s-l-i-n-k International, Inc. (C-I) require the
urgency of bringing their applications to market with speed, accuracy and
technical integrity. In order to accelerate the phases of a typical rubber
product design cycle, C-I offers complete design support services using a
variety of Computer Aided Design software. Cross functional involvements from
Quality, Sales and Manufacturing Engineering in the design stages helps to
ensure optimized design for mixing, molding, and manufacturing.Our standard
design phase begins with an application data sheet which identifies the minimum
and maximum operating loads (radial, axial, torsional, and conical), temperature
criteria, oil, contaminations, or fluids exposure. At this point, a material can
typically be estimated for first pass design purposes.
Next, a review of the envelope or real estate to work with, which will
include part orientation, surrounding components, and items to contend with.
This will normally provide or identify a basic shape of the application. Now its
time to bring all this brainstorming to some sort of form or shape via a product
rendering for drafting to work with some basic dimensions. From here, a variety
of second step to confirm your start can be taken: models, various analysis
packages (applying loads to confirm application data info), prototype
development, and developmental or trial testing are also in order.
This is normally referred to as a 'Black Box' approach. More than often we do
not have the extent of information because our customer does not know, and we
have to figure majority of this out together. In this case, C-I will work with
our customers to conceptualize, design and development a product based on some
general knowledge of the application and its environment.
C-I's primarily designs using parametric solid modeling to define and tweak a
parts geometries. We house a variety of Computer Aided Design seats that allow
our designers no longer have to approximate, as part of the product definition
process. Parametric models allow for very fast design changes without geometry
recreation. This also assists in the design preparation for FEA or other
application analysis programs.
 Our CAD Design Center have a long history of providing design expertise to
the automotive, industrial and Specialty OEM's. We offer stand design and
development work with each program, we also can provide:
- Product design
- Tool design
- Machine design
- Special equipment design
Our newest design package, AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop, is used for mold as
well as part design. In addition, we have computer aided mold flow modeling
programs allow us to model mold gates and runners on the computer, saving a
significant amount of time and unnecessary expense.
Design Software:
- Unigraphics 18
- AutoCAD 14
- Catia-CADCAM Solutions V5
- SolidWorks
- AutoDesk Inventor
- AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop 2004
- Hyperform 3.2
- ANSYS 5.5
- Dyna3D 950
C-I also offers our valued customers our design, test and prototyping
facilities, as well as our materials catalogue. Where we do not support some
basic materials testing or high load fatigue (compounded angle hydraulic
testing) we will contract an A2LA laboratory to support these low frequency test
items.
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