Automotive Solutions
Drive vehicle innovation with design tools and additive manufacturing
Technology & Process Solutions
Javelin SOLIDWORKS Technology solutions enables companies in the automotive and transportation industries to collaborate on the design of innovative products with exceptional style, weight, and performance.
Our solutions allow automotive designers to:
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Design and Deliver Intelligent Vehicles
SOLIDWORKS can accelerate product innovation throughout the supply chain with tools that ensure you meet your deadlines and your products meet their performance and quality goals.
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Imagine and Collaborate Vehicle Concepts
Enhance customer satisfaction and communicate concepts early in the design phase with SOLIDWORKS by using 3D models and creating photo-realistic imagery with Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) capabilities so you can “see” your concepts in the real world.
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Manage Product Development
Technology that facilitates multi-site manufacturing, supply chain operations and quality compliance.
Additive Manufacturing Solutions
3D printing provides manufacturers with prototyping, advanced tooling and production applications. Additive manufacturing with Stratasys is the cutting edge of the automotive and transportation industry.
Our additive solutions allow automotive manufacturers to:
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Prototype Ideas Into Production
Go from the design studio to the factory floor in a fraction of the time it takes other development processes. Produce street ready parts for realistic product tests.
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Simplify Production by Working Smarter
Optimize your assembly and create QA tools. Avoid scrap and retooling by testing injection-molds and other tools before machining them.
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3D Print Concepts
From scale models to product concepts, additive manufacturing helps designers shape the way cars are imagined and made.
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Small Production Runs and Vehicle Customization
Tailor vehicles to a specific region or market, while keeping customization in sync with the rest of product development. Customize repairs, restorations, and accessories with advanced 3D printed materials.
Technology for Automotive Design
Drive innovation and connectivity with SOLIDWORKS software
Consumers want attractive and user-friendly vehicles that incorporate advanced safety features and performance. SOLIDWORKS® enables companies and suppliers to deliver value to an extended team that designs, manages, and simulates complete products or subsystems.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium delivers more powerful and sophisticated simulation capabilities, to help you answer engineering challenges
SOLIDWORKS Professional
SOLIDWORKS Professional gives you all the power of SOLIDWORKS Standard with additional capabilities for productivity, communication and file management
SOLIDWORKS Visualize
SOLIDWORKS Visualize products help organizations leverage 3D CAD data to create photo-realistic marketing content that is print and web ready in minutes
Customer Example
Accelerating Canadian Transmission System Design with SOLIDWORKS Simulation
Litens Automotive Group is the global leader in the design and manufacture of engineered power transmission system design and components.
Litens use SOLIDWORKS Simulation software’s fast and robust solver and complete CAD/CAE integration helping them to speed up their transmission system design process
Automotive Process Management
Communicate and collaborate with your team and suppliers
Break down barriers within teams and suppliers with a single centralized Bill of Materials (BOM) from any CAD model. Define, communicate, collaborate, and predict how designs will perform so they can be optimized before they are built. Minimize redundant parts and change modifications by leveraging existing parts. Securely reuse product design Intellectual Property (IP) across projects to focus on innovation.
Discover our process management solutions:
SOLIDWORKS Manage
Extends SOLIDWORKS PDM with advanced capabilities that allow teams to manage project timelines and resources, complex business processes, and advanced item management.
Additive Manufacturing Automotive Solutions
Advanced materials and techniques for part production
Overview
Javelin supports automotive vehicle design with its professional and production grade Stratasys 3D Printing solutions.
Automotive manufacturers are empowered to produce advanced functional and durable parts. Supporting high requirement applications with efficiency-improving build complexities that are not achievable through traditional means. In addition we assist our clients with methodologies to support bridge and direct manufacturing capabilities. Whether your requirement is to improve fuel economy, optimize part count to weight ratios, or eliminate tooling costs, our ability to put automotive and transportation specialists on the fast track to success is what drives us.
Stratasys 3D Printing
We offer Stratasys patented FDM Technology for resilient prototypes and parts made from high-performance engineering thermoplastics. For beautiful models requiring rubber-like or clear materials with a smooth finish, customers choose PolyJet technology based 3D printers.
View the case studies below to learn how Javelin has helped Canadian automotive suppliers such as Solaxis in Bromont QC., and MAGNA Closures in Newmarket ON., best leverage their investments in Stratasys 3D Production additive manufacturing solutions.
Additive Manufacturing Machines & Materials
Stratasys 3D Printing gets your Parts on the road faster
Go from the design studio to the factory floor in a fraction of the time it takes other development processes. Prototype, test, and produce all manner of tools, jigs, fixtures, and street-ready parts with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
With automotive 3D printing solutions, you can raise quality and throughput by optimizing assembly and QA tools. Avoid scrap and retooling by testing injection-molds and other tools before machining them.
ULTEM 9085
ULTEM 9085 resin material lets manufacturers create functional prototypes and production parts for high-strength, FST-rated and certified applications.
Stratasys J850 / J835 / J826
The Stratasys J8 Series 3D printers deliver full PANTONE colour capability including texture mapping and colour gradients for realistic prototyping.
Stratasys J826
Based on J850 technology, the Stratasys J826 supplies the same end-to-end solution for the design process and ultra-realistic models at a lower price point.
Stratasys J750 / J735
The Stratasys J750 and J735 3D Printers deliver unrivaled aesthetic performance including true, PANTONE colour capability with texture mapping and colour gradients.
Stratasys F900
The Stratasys F900 is the ultimate manufacturing-grade production 3D printer with the widest array of engineering-grade materials, maximum throughput, largest build platform, and highest accuracy.
Stratasys F770
Print big with the Stratasys F770™ large format 3D printer. 3D printing large, complex parts is now more affordable, reliable and easy.
PPSF / PPSU
PPSF / PPSU (polyphenylsulfone) Stratasys 3D printing material has the greatest heat and chemical resistance of all FDM materials
Fortus 450mc
A workhorse 3D printer for engineers that require demanding flexibility to print larger-sized or many parts in an array of engineering-grade materials with high speed and unfailing throughput.
FDM TPU 92A
FDM TPU 92A brings the benefits of elastomers to Stratasys FDM 3D printing and offers the capability to quickly produce large and complex elastomer parts.
Diran 410MF07
Diran 410MF07 is a nylon-based thermoplastic FDM material. Typical applications include jigs, fixtures and other forms of general manufacturing tooling.
ASA
Outdoor-use production parts benefit from the strength, colour choice and UV resistance of ASA material
Antero 840CN03
Antero 840CN03 is a PEKK based composite with carbon nanotubes giving it excellent mechanical, chemical, outgassing, and ESD properties.
Antero 800NA
Antero 800NA PEKK-based thermoplastic combines FDM’s design freedom with the excellent mechanical properties and low outgassing characteristics of PEKK.
Additive Manufacturing Applications
How do Automotive engineers use 3D printers?
Production End-use Parts
Stratasys 3D Printers are ideal for low production runs as they build the most durable, stable, repeatable on-demand end-use parts in the industry
Rapid Prototyping
Rapid prototyping with a Stratasys 3D Printer helps companies turn great ideas into successful products faster than ever before by 3D printing your prototypes.
Casting Master
Casting master patterns can be 3D printed for substantial savings in cost, labour and time, ultimately speeding new product development.
Why Stratasys 3D Printing for Automotive?
Recommended Automotive Machine
Fortus 450mc Production System
Advanced Digital Manufacturing
Workhorse 3D printer for engineers that require demanding flexibility to print larger-sized or many parts in an array of engineering-grade materials with high speed and unfailing throughput.
Replace Expensive CNC Production
By replacing expensive and lead-time critical CNC-milled parts with in-house manufactured plastic parts, you can dramatically reduce your production costs. The printed plastic parts also perform better technically, weigh less, and are well suited for the production of complex bodies that, when using conventional metal-cutting processes, would be very difficult and costly to produce.
Create Better Assembly Tools
For hand-held devices used on the assembly line, engineers can employ 3D printing to make ergonomically designed assembly aids that perform better than conventionally made tools.
Test and Identify Design Problems
In some cases using CAD models alone is not as effective at finding design problems as a 3D printed physical part – you can easily identify a component issue that may have been missed in the initial design stage.
Part Mock-ups and Prototypes
Unleash the imagination of your designers and manufacturers with PolyJet technology 3D printers that bring ideas to life, free from the usual time or financial constraints.
Featured Case Study
3D Printing Automotive Tooling
Solaxis 3D print an Automotive Jig cutting weight and improving accuracy.
With the help of Stratasys 3D printers, Solaxis designed and manufactured a jig for an automotive supplier, which uses it to assemble high-volume plastic door seals.
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