Flexible Redesign of Bucket for Hard Rock Mining

This four months internship project is to help Bristol Machine to flexible redesign a mechanical linked bucket for hard rock mining application with less time, money, failure, resource, materials cost and increase product quality, flexibility, productivity, and performance for various worldwide customers’ needs in mining industry. The proposed method will be computer-aid design, engineering, FEA simulation, digital prototyping, and manufacturing. It will definitely help the company quickly explore and evaluate different design variations, and alternatives to determine the best design. Also, the whole product design and development process will be efficient and allows for 3D sectional views. In addition, the product can be easily designed to meet design requirements, since the FEA simulation will help engineers to identify risk, errors, and failures at early the product design stage and maximize product quality to high standards. Finally, the bucket can be manufactured based on the flexible model.

Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Fleisig

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate