A startup company in Rio Vista, TX is designing dock boards a new way. Brazos Manufacturing is using a computer modeling software called FEA or Finite Element Analysis to determine all facets of their design. Material thickness, weld placements break placement are evaluated and visual feedback is immediately available. It is amazing.
In the stone age when I was working in that industry, we would model by building. Sure our industrial engineer would run calculations and we would "sort of" know what to expect when we built the dock board or yard ramp. But the design regarding weld placements and a lot of geometry was only evaluated by building one and running a forklift truck over it a few hundred times.
My how times have changed. Watch this short video to see FEA in action. Go to http://brazosmanufacturing.com to see their full line.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
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