AVAILABLE 7 DAYS A WEEK, 24 HOURS A DAY
Proven Product Development Partner
WIDL offers out of Windsor, ON, services around 1. Polymer development and characterization (including recovered polymers) and polymeric product 2. Design by analysis using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and 3. Manufacturing simulation and tuning using Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD), to assist all parties involved in polymers and polymeric product developments (material suppliers, compounders, product designers, process simulators, tooling designers and makers, machine builders, trial houses and prototype providers, testing and validation or certification undertakers, part specifiers, sellers, or users, and OEMs), in all industries, as an alternative to trial-and-error. WIDL’s work encompasses recycling in terms of regenerating post-industrial scrap materials, in particular rubbers, and post-consumer products (involving polymers), going through material segregation, thermoset rubber devulcanization and compounding, thermoplastic blending, to return up-scaled compounds and resins to manufacturers or, use them in-house in contract manufacturing or to fabricate products for various uses.
Phone
+1 (519) 991-8919
Office
3310 Longfellow Ave Windsor, ON N9E 2L6
Office hours
Monday – Friday
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
AVAILABLE 7 DAYS A WEEK, 24 HOURS A DAY
We Offer Product Development Via Material Testing & Part Simulations
Developing polymers into polymeric products involves three key elements:
Chemistry development and mechanical laboratory characterization;
Mechanical design, analysis, and shape optimization, in addition to validation testing and correlation to reality, and
Multi-disciplinary processing, that involves chemists, engineers, and hardware (as in pumps, molds and dies), machinery builders, and sellers
Such broadly itemized “ingredients”, required for the development of polymers into polymeric (engineered) products, need to be brought to fine economical equilibria that meet the customer’s specifications.
However, often times, there is a lack of understanding of such building blocks, even at manufacturing levels, even after decades of production and servicing to the various industries. To this day, most companies still rely on trial-and-error to develop materials, tooling, parts and assemblies.
MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
WIDL selects, reverse-establishes, and inspects materials, for any manufacturing process, through destructive or NDE techniques. The company excels in obtaining material parameters from test data which constitutes a major obstacle to valid product time-simulations using FEA and CFD.
DESIGN PARAMETER Definitions
“Design parameters” are neglected in product shaping and processing. For example, over-compressing a seal promotes material degradation. Design parameter definitions at WIDL help part makers gauge processing and can go all the way to ensuring the functionality of produced items in time.
PRODUCT & PROCESS AnalysEs
The only alternative to the costly “over-design” and time-consuming trial-and-error is simulation of part performance and processing. WIDL cost-effectively builds simulation knowledge for manufacturers, combining novelties in materials and computer design and processes based on CAE/FEA and CAM/CFD.
ACCELERATED VALIDATION TESTING
WIDL validates part designs and processes by testing under various operation and manufacturing conditions. WIDL invests extra efforts to generate data to correlate simulations to experiments. Testing completes under normal conditions and in accelerations using time-temperature superposition (TTS).
R&D PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
WIDL works with manufacturers (one-on-one or in groups) on existing programs, for cost-savings, on tools, molds, dies or parts quoted, towards optimization, on specific projects, for cost-effectiveness. WIDL also structures R&D for production shops, from early concepts, with potential third-party integrations.
Cold Manifold Molding
Corex Design Group
855 Seneca Road
Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 USA
Seal Reverse Engineering
Hamilton Kent
77 Carlingview Drive
Mississauga, ON M9W 5E6 Canada
Plastic Underhood Switch
GM Powertrain
1629 North Washington Avenue
Saginaw, MI 48601 USA
Seal Material Optimization
Whirlpool Corporation World HQ
2000 M-63
Benton Harbor, MI 49022 USA
Composite Hose Crimping
Eaton Aeroquip Technical Center
1660 Indian Wood Circle
Maumee, OH 43537 USA
Rubber-paper Conversion
Seals Eastern
134 Pearl Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701 USA
Plastic Mold Optimization
Service Mold & Aerospace
2711 St Etienne Boulevard
Windsor, ON N8W 5B1 Canada
Fuelcell Seal Development
Ballard Power Systems
9000 Glenlyon Parkway
Burnaby, BC V5J 5J8, Canada
Electrical Connector Design
Microchip Technology
28100 Cabot Dr live, Unit 104
Novi, MI 48377-2966 USA
Composite-Ceramic Switch
Hubbell Power Systems
210 North Allen Street
Centralia, MO 65240 USA
High Pressure Sealing
Sloan Flushmate
30075 Research Drive
New Hudson, MI 48165 USA
Foam Seats Conditioning
Yanfeng Automotive Interiors
42150 Executive Drive
Harrison Township, MI 48045 USA
Diaphragm Troubleshooting
GFI Control Systems
5 Goddard Crescent, Unit 101
Cambridge, ON N3E 0C8 Canada
Soft Dampener Assembly
Wegu Manufacturing Canada
1707 Harbour Street
Whitby, ON L1N 9G6 Canada
Oil Tanker Closure
Utex Industries
10810 Katy Freeway, Unit 100
Houston, TX 77043 USA
Composite Metal Conversion
ElringKlinger Canada
1 Seneca Road,
Leamington, ON N8H 5P2 Canada
We Cover All Ingredients to Product Development & Troubleshooting
Unlike industry trial-and-error, WIDL offers modern technologies in material characterization and computer simulations of product design and manufacturing, for client early investigations or troubleshooting, as needed.
SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS
NOVELTIES & PATENTS
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Client Satisfaction
AVAILABLE 7 DAYS A WEEK, 24 HOURS A DAY
What Do Clients Say About Us?
WIDL is an R&D/Engineering company with professional knowhow in materials and computer-based analyses (using CAE/FEA and CAM/CFD). Our goal is to provide practical and cost effective integrated engineering and management services, to clients who require additional expertise for specific projects or technical investigations.
While with AMP Industries in Harrison Township, Michigan. Dr. Chouchaoui helped us develop a high-pressure cartridge for toilet flushing for Sloan Flushmate. The goal was to save on water consumption by three quarters (over state-of-the-art) with the use of plastics and half a dozen dynamic rubber gaskets and seals.
I know Dr. Ben Chouchaoui since 1994 when he was employed by German JOH Rubber; I was at ARDL at that time. Dr. Chouchaoui is developing machinery and protocols to characterize polymers for hyper- and visco-elastic responses for nonlinear FEA, which should considerably serve the polymer manufacturing sector.
In 2008, Dr. Chouchaoui launched fast pace training sessions with case study presentations and hands-on applications using FEA and CFD software; he delivered a session at our company. WIDL’s technical training is based on the latest in material characterization and advancements in computer technologies based on CAD/CAM/CAE.
AVAILABLE 7 DAYS A WEEK, 24 HOURS A DAY
New Product Offerings
The most important ingredient in product development is material characterization, specially for hyper-elastic materials. WIDL has thus been developing novel patented tools, fixtures, machinery, to characterize polymers in particular, under all independent modes of deformations.
Miniature Molds
- UC compression mold
- UT compression mold
- PT compression mold
- VC compression mold
- User’s manual
- 1-year warranty
Miniature Fixtures
- UC testing fixture
- UT testing fixture
- PT testing fixture
- VC testing fixture
- User’s manual
- 1-year warranty
Compact Machinery
- Protocols for molding
- Protocols for conditioning
- Protocols for ageing
- Protocosl for testing
- User’s manual
- 1-year warranty
Quick and Painless
How Does It Work?
If you need quality support in a timely fashion and at a competitive price, to assess a product or a process, we are only a phone call or a mouse click away. We do certainly have the design and processing experience that you need, and strive to meet the same high standards as you do. Taking materials including recyclates to the next level, via testing and simulation, is what WIDL is all about.
Indeed, WIDL offers advanced testing and analyses services to design products and ways to make them in early investigations or in troubleshooting. We can also assist build final prototypes and test these under accelerated working conditions. WIDL has over the years run complex calculations, involving nonlinear effects (contacts, large deformations, and nonlinear material behaviors). These unmistakably led to the identifications of critical regions at early design stages of client processes or to correct shortcomings.
MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION
WIDL selects, reverse-establishes, inspects materials, for manufacturing, by destructive or NDE techniques. Besides, obtaining material parameters from test data constitutes a major obstacle to valid product time-simulations. WIDL assists material suppliers, tool shops, machine builders, manufacturers, Tier Suppliers, and OEMs, characterize materials for FEA and CFD. WIDL also selects parameters for modeling at WIDL or for patrons’ discretionary uses. WIDL develops equipment for testing materials too, from design, build, trials, data acquisition, and analyses of test results.
PRODUCT FEA, PROCESS CFD
The alternative to the costly over-design and time-consuming trial-and-error is simulation of part performance (e.g., the longevity of an ultrasonically-welded polymeric structure) and processing (e.g., heaters/cooling lines and amounts/locations of gates for the lowest cycle time of a BOP for the oilfields). WIDL cost-effectively builds simulation knowledge for manufacturers, combining novelties in materials, designs, and processes. And, any know-how gained through R&D remains the property of the contractor, with easy data access at any time via WIDL.
VALIDATION & CERTIFICATION TESTING
Traditional life analysis relies on times-to-failure data under normal service conditions. Accelerated life tests provide reliability data such as the probability of a product to fail, its mean life under use conditions, and its projected returns and warranty costs. Reliability data on a manufactured polymeric product at WIDL in particular, also assesses risk performance, design, processing, etc. Accelerated tests consist of life testing and can take the form of usage rate or overstress accelerations. Moreover, all product validation testing at WIDL aims at correlations to numerical predictions.
CONSULTING, TROUBLESHOOTING, ETC.
WIDL works with manufacturers (one-on-one or in groups) on existing programs, for cost-savings, with tools, molds, dies, or parts being quoted, towards optimization, on specific projects to make, for cost-effectiveness. WIDL also structures R&D for production shops, from early concepts, literature and patent searches, design and simulation, to prototyping and testing, with the transfer of knowledge benefiting contracting shops and their patrons. WIDL can be part of any program and production team, or take on entire management and R&D of applications for customers.
Low Fees
You Don’t Have to Break the Bank to Be in Good Hands
Within your retainer, we will answer any question you will have for an entire year, in relation to:
- Material development, characterization, and modeling
- Product design, analysis, and optimization
- Manufacturing process setting, modeling, and tuning
- Product and process validation testing
- Troubleshooting and new product development
- Technology reviews and assessments
Call For a Free Consultation
We urge you to book a consultation with us, now or at your earliest convenience, through the phone or a video conference, to discuss your work, for your emancipation and the success of your operations.
WORLDWIDE SERVICES
We Serve the Polymer Industry!
WIDL assists all parties involved in polymers and polymeric product developments (material suppliers, compounders, product designers, process simulators, tooling designers and makers, machine builders, trial houses and prototype runners, testing and validation or certification undertakers, part specifiers, sellers, or users, and Tier Suppliers and OEMs), in all industries, from conception to production and after service recycling.
In today’s competitive marketplace in all industrial sectors, manufacturers must continuously enhance quality, reduce cost, and accelerate delivery processes. However, most manufacturing firms cannot meet these challenges with internal resources alone (for a lack of advanced laboratory equipment, powerful FEA and CFD software, and specialized personnel). As an alternative, they sadly recourse to trial-and-error. A better option is collaborating with a ‘center of expertise’ that can quickly and efficiently, apply skilled people, efficient tools, and demonstrated technologies to meet industry challenges. WIDL is such ‘center of expertise’, strategically located in Windsor, ON, ready to promptly, methodically, and cost-effectively, assist manufactures and their suppliers and clients. Besides, production floors inherently generate 10 to 20% of scrap in terms of flash, runners, bad parts, test parts, etc. WIDL is positioned to regenerate post-industrial scrap and post-consumer products for repeat manufacturing (circular economy), going through material segregation, thermoset rubber devulcanization and compounding, thermoplastic blending, to return reclaimed materials to their generators, or use the new compounds and resins in contract manufacturing or to produce new products.
WIDL’s Operations Manager
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Common Questions
WHICH INDUSTRIES DO YOU SERVE?
We serve the manufacturing industry worldwide. We have done projects in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Korea, China, Africa, the Middle East, France, and England.
WHAT TYPE OF COMPANIES HIRE YOU?
We work for companies developing or troubleshooting a material, a product, or a production process including tooling, for manufacturing, through simulations.
IS YOUR WORK CONFIDENTIAL?
Often, we sign a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) with any inquirer before engaging in a project, and we live by and respect our engagements, seriously.
IN WHAT ARE YOU BEST?
We are best at product development revolving around 1. Material characterization (including recylcates), 2. Product FEA, 3. Process CFD, and 4. Validation testing with accelerations.
DO YO HAVE CASE STUDIES TO SHARE?
In these web pages we posted two-dozen case studies of early investigations we altered to fit as education material and serve our partners and the industry, worldwide.
WHAT DO YOUR SERVICES COST?
Prices for a retainer, training materials, some of our products, are posted in these pages, and we are happy to develop detailed project proposals before any commitment from you.
HOW OFTEN DO YOU RUN YOUR SEMINARS?
Regular one-day seminars are run monthly if for more than four attendees. But we can schedule seminars at clients and tailor them for their operations, at agreed upon dates.
WHO BENEFIT MOST FROM YOUR OFFERINGS?
Anyone wanting to improve materials, product designs, manufacturing tooling and machinery, benefits from our services, regardless of the sector or level of sophistication.
ARE YOU INVOLVED IN RECYCLING?
We are involved in recycling polymers, and currently we are progressing with recycling scrapped tires and creating new formulas to use mixed compounds in engineered products.
HOW CAN I JOIN YOU and YOUR NETWORK?
Please join us on a retainer to dedicate us to support you around the clock, answering any question related to materials and product development and troubleshooting,
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Our principles-based engineering over the past decades is built on making a lasting impact on clients, ensuring they get the best advice, product, service, moving forward. No cookie-cutting, each project is unique, and no meaningless micromanagement, just lean, fast, creative engineering leadership that builds on past experiences to move you forward, any time, quickly.
STATE-OF-THE-ART
Advanced Technologies
WIDL offers advanced testing and analyses services to design products and ways to make them. We can also assist build final prototypes and test these under accelerated working conditions. WIDL has over the years run complex calculations, involving nonlinear effects. These unmistakably led to the identification of critical issues at early design stages of clients’ processes.
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Satisfaction Guaranteed
Business owners and managers have enough to worry about and should be empowered to deliver their products or services and grow their operations without distractions. WIDL is dedicated to ensuring that organizations can maintain their strategic focus, leaving product developments to us. We are committed to finding innovative solutions to client challenges, all the time.
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Material Characterization
Reverse-engineering, compound development, fluid compatibility and ageing, characteristics for FEA and CFD modeling, etc.
Product Development
Conceptualization, design, reverse-engineering, CAD, CAE, CAM, FEA, CFD, optimization, sensitivity, LMC/MMC, etc.
Validation Testing
Mechanical, thermal, time-dependant, frequency-domain, acceleration, TTS, creep, stress-relaxation, etc.
R&D Program Management
Client representations, neutral evaluations, brain-storming, government programs, academia, IP, patents. etc.