Jarp - Mechanical design

Jarp makes hydraulic cylinders basically for the commercial market, we sell the OEMs basically construction markets, forestry, military, we are big into that, we do sell to the mining customers, rock crushers. we sell custom welded hydraulic cylinders so you can’t find anything we make in a catalog. every mechanical designer that we have here in JARP is a NTC grad. NTC provides students with good foundations, you know, obviously, they still got some learning to do and it's our job to teach them the JARP way if you will. We just recently got involved in the internship program with NTC and we've got a great experience. Right now, we are doing internships basically on the machine area and in the mechanical design. there's a learning curve obviously, when anybody starts a new job, but by the time he finishes his intern and graduated, we've have a fully trained employee that's ready to go and you know we've had great successes with our NTC grads in mechanical design. Basic skills we are looking for are you know your basic design skills, some Statics, some dynamics. obviously you're going to need to know some cat systems, we solve works. but you know, we're just looking for just good rounded students. The design process starts sometimes when customer look is looking for quote, a lot of times it'll start from when we get an order, we get their drawings or suspects from customers of what they are looking for, besides the sizes they need, you know, how much force they need, what the application it is in case there is any certain code that we have to meet. so I definitely recommend the mechanical design program at NTC, I’ve. I took it back in 93' and I’ve gotten a lot, a lot of years out of it already and I’m sure I’ll get quite a few more. we like to incorporate values into the cylinders rather than the customers having to accept the value block, it eliminates some points of possible leakage or failure. this is an example of a cylinder that we've done with values in it, the valves are most of the time, or a lot of the time located in the base under the cylinder down here, this one is one of the more complex one that we do, uh, and looks like there is just a lot of lines and circles and everything up but it's all carefully looked at, designed thought out, you know to make sure the function is there that the customer needs for that particular cylinder. My name is Todd Walk, my job title is designer, over the course of the day we model up Hydraulic cylinders, we do some detailing of the prints, we do some change request, when stuff needs to get changed. I went to the program of mechanical design technology, they give you the basic skills to understand solid work and some of the math and the design problems that you need to solve when you're making these parts. we build some innovated machinery looks like a sturdy rest, it's a special add on, to help support some of our longer tubing. we can hold the center on that spot within about 2 and half thousands. now that we got this all set up like this, it'll actually support the tube coming out of the machine so as it spins it doesn’t whip around it pulls center the whole time, which makes all of our machining a lot more accurate. My names Jason Ardamski, and I’m a product designer here at JARP industry, I detail working drawings of hydraulic cylinders for manufacturing, I went to machine tool technics program at NTC and a few years later then I went back to school to the mechanical design program. Most of my days, spent in the office drawing new prints for new products, part of my day will be possibly answering questions for manufacturing personnel. product designer, we are responsible to go through the prints and be sure that all the safety factors of these types of cylinder are met. some cylinders we make are for man lifting equipment to say put workers up in high areas like scissors lift or cherry pickers and some of these cylinders have to meet strict standards in order to be safely used. well here’s an example of a hydraulic cylinder that we've worked on here at JARP and it goes through to a man lift type application because this whole area inside is filled with pressurized fluid so that it could actually explode if it was not strong enough. My name is Jeremy Cook, and I am a mechanical designer, as I started I study mechanical design technology and machine tool at NTC. typical day at work at JARP for me would be coming in detailing drawing working with the engineers take the customers input and put it down on paper and make something, make a product that's suitable for them, to pretty much just put a good product out of the door, testing a cylinders, for example there’s a fixation welded piece here, a fixation well is something that is kind of unique we do here, fixation well is where one piece of metal is stationary and the other, and another piece of metal is rotating, and their slowly forced together and it creates 100% weld that is very strong. this is our basic fixation welded project here at JARP It’s a good field to get into especially if you have some, manufacturing knowledge ahead of time, If you like designing stuff, drawing it up and actually seeing it laid, that's part of the enjoyment of this job, one thing that high school student that goes to the tech wants to continue in the industry one way to compete is to do the internships, you know, bridge that gap, you know, you're not going to have that practical experience but if do the internship, you can gain that practical experience.