Design and manufacture of custom machinery, jigs and fixtures using Autodesk Inventor, including mechanical, electrical, PLC, motion control, hydraulic and pneumatic systems design. Northwind can provide solutions for feeding fasteners, complex conveying systems, special packaging requirements with a wide array of products.
Typical Northwind Project
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Description:
A sanitary conveyor system to transfer hand packed trays of chicken pieces from 12 hand pack lines to 12 plastic film over-wrap machines.Schedule:
30 daysMission:
Concept, Design & ManufactureCritical Issue:
All 12 lanes of 12 inch wide stainless steel conveyor had to pass thru a wall penetration measuring 6 foot-8 inch wide x 8 foot tall. Results: Project completed in 27 days with total 1162 feet of stainless steel conveyor.
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Northwind's team starts with the basic tools, pad of paper and white board with lots of discussion. Once the basic concept is defined, then "rough" models in Autodesk Inventor are created to verify and identify key design elements and manufacturing criteria. The process continues to a complete Inventor model. Final review of the design will be completed by the Customer, Design Team, Manufacturing and Quality. Bill of materials, manufacturing processes, quality control points are then loaded into Global Shop (ERP) and work orders issued to manufacturing.
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| An Inventor Model of a metal detector conveyor created by Northwind's team. | The finished metal detector conveyor. |
The business activities of Northwind, Inc. do not constitute the practice of Engineering in the State of Arkansas, nor do we represent our services as such as we do not employ Professional Engineers.
