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.
3310 Longfellow Ave Windsor, ON N9E 2L6
Monday – Friday
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Developing polymers into polymeric products involves three key elements:
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
Client representations, neutral evaluations, brainstorming, government programs, academia, IP, patents. etc.
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.
WIDL is an R&D 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 technical, research and development (R&D) 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.
Encom Polymers Inc.
4825 Spring St
Evansville, IN 47711 USA
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.
American Group LLC
934 Grant St
Akron, OH 44311 USA
In 2008, Dr. Chouchaoui launched fast pace training sessions with case study demonstrations 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 computer technologies based on CAD/CAM/CAE.
Apple Rubber Products Inc.
310 Erie St
Lancaster, NY 14086 USA
The most important ingredient in product development is material characterization, especially 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WIDL selects, reverse-establishes, and 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 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.
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. Moreover, any know-how gained through R&D remains the property of the contractor, with easy data access at any time, via WIDL.
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.
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 benefiting of applications for customers.
Within your retainer, we will answer any question you will have for an entire year, in relation to:
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.
We serve the manufacturing industry worldwide. We have done projects in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Korea, China, Africa, the Middle East, France, and England.
We work for companies developing or troubleshooting a material, a product, or a production process including tooling, for manufacturing, through simulations.
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.
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.
In these webpages, we posted two-dozen case studies of early investigations we altered to fit as education material and serve our partners and the industry, worldwide.
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.
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.
Anyone wanting to improve materials, product designs, manufacturing tooling and machinery, benefits from our services, regardless of the sector or level of sophistication.
We are involved in recycling polymers, and currently we are progressing with recycling scrapped tires and creating new formulas to use mixed compounds in products.
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.
Our principles based on the past three decades are built on making a lasting impact on clients, ensuring they get the best advice, gratification, product, service, moving forward. No cookie-cutting, each project is unique, and no meaningless micromanagement, just lean, fast, creative leadership that builds on past experiences to move you forward, any time, rather quickly.
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 client processes.
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.
Reverse, compound development, fluid compatibility and ageing, characteristics for FEA and CFD modeling, etc.
Mechanical, thermal, time-dependent, frequency-domain, acceleration, TTS, creep, stress-relaxation, etc.
Conceptualization, design, reverse, CAD, CAE, CAM, FEA, CFD, optimization, sensitivity, LMC/MMC, etc.
Client representations, neutral evaluations, brainstorming, government programs, academia, IP, patents. etc.
Monday – Friday
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Disclaimer - Dr. Chouchaoui and WIDL do not do engineering services regulated by PEO (Professional Engineers Ontario). If you need services as such please contact PEO for referrals to an engineer who does such.
