Events and Insights at Enginuity
Dive deep into the heart of Enginuity with our exclusive blog posts. From the drawing board to the forefront of innovation, discover the stories, achievements, and aspirations that fuel our passion.
How Automation Impacts Workers’ Compensation Premiums
Employers pay WCB Insurance for 4 main reasons. They care about their employees. It provides financial and medical benefits to workers injured on the job. They don’t want to get sued. It’s the law. And yet still many employers cringe at the amount they spend...
Healthy Belly, Healthy Business
Linda Peers knew there had to be better way. For years, Linda Peers struggled with lactose intolerance, a condition which is associated with uncomfortable gut symptoms. To avoid this, she turned to making coconut milk in her home kitchen as a dairy alternative. By...
Show Me The Money – The Benefits Of Technical Due Diligence
A single tear ran slowly along her cheek towards the cold linoleum on which she lay. The pain in her right leg and hip was made agonisingly more acute with every miniscule effort to move. The ‘call for assistance’ button was well beyond reach. Her fear and angst were...
Digital Harbour: The Marine Data Revolution
A revolution is bubbling to the surface. A revolution within the marine sector that will provide unprecedented access to integrated real-time data on the environment, biology, security and port traffic is on the horizon. This initiative breaks open new and exciting...
Sonar Deployment Season
Getting the Sharper Image with the Vessel You Have
It is widely understood that much more is known about outer space than the depths of our oceans, greater than 80% are yet to be explored or charted. The challenges of exploring and understanding what lies beneath the water’s surface are characterised by frigid...
Human/Machine Management
Understanding Leadership’s Role in Industry 4.0
“If a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.” - Sarah Connor, Terminator 2 : Judgement Day Let’s take a trip in time. Five hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, (aka the First Industrial Revolution) the waterborne city of...
Combating Military Obsolescence:
Tactical Engineering and Retrofit Design
Due to sensitive subject matter, many client and project details have been omitted. Alarm bells are sounding. Polish President Andrzej Duda has recently called for all NATO member states to increase their defence spending to 3% of GDP. The reason for his remarks is...
Getting from Lab to Market: The Ingenious Story of 3D BioFibR
Back in 1997, the public reaction upon first seeing the Vacanti Mouse (the laboratory mouse who appeared to have an ear grown on its back) was a mix of shock and fascination. The striking image spawned several concerning, yet rather ill-informed protests. But once the...
Ports of Confidence:
The Engineering of Economic Development
Being a captain ain’t easy. Critical, life and death decisions, ensuring the seaworthiness of the ship, handling payroll, staffing, and grievances all while being responsible for all persons and cargo on board; the daunting weight of all these responsibilities are...
Resourcefulness in Carbon Capture Technology: Research to Reality
In August 1987, the world was in a deeply dire state. Sixty years of chlorofluorocarbon (CFCs) filled refrigerators and aerosol spray cans had depleted a large part of the ozone layer to a perilous level. A future of blinded children, scorched earth and extreme...
From Warplanes to Creative Engineering:
How Skunk Works Gets Things Done
noun: also skunk works, skunk·works [skuhngk-wurks] .Slang. an experimental laboratory or department of a company or institution, typically smaller than, and independent of its main research division. The summer of 1943 was a hot one. The world was mired in an...
Finite Element Analysis For Kids – The Snorble Story
Barely three weeks before Christmas, Mike Rizkalla looks out of a window on American Airlines flight 134 and reflects upon the beauty of the Jundu mountains below. The electrical engineer and serial entrepreneur is heading back to his family in New Jersey after...
The Tide Is High – Why Good Connections are Necessary in Business and at Sea
In mid-November 2023, a decommissioned tidal turbine barge washed up on the shores of Nova Scotia in Eastern Canada. The abandoned hulk hung upon the rocks, leaving licence only to cormorants and puffins to take a berth upon her deck. This was an unfortunate end to...
Deep. Well. Connected. The Importance of Trust and B2B Alignment
Deep. Well. Connected. The Importance of Trust and B2B Alignment James Fisher Decommissioning & Enginuity Inc. Picture this - you’re on a rolling deck of a ship in the North Sea, dawn is breaking, dark, foreboding clouds hang low in the air, there is a...
Hand in Hand with CleanBands
Hand in Hand with CleanBands Like many of us, David Iwankow’s first job as a teen was at a buffet serving food; slicing roast beef and making salads for hungry and unsuspecting guests. At the time he never thought about it, but looking back, he realized that he...
How our humble Halifax Engineering firm became an important defense player.
Now in its 17th year, DEFSEC Atlantic is Canada’s premiere Aerospace, Defence, Security and Marine trade show. The conference draws many Canadian and international delegates from across various disciplines and attracts some of the biggest names in the Aerospace and...
Engineering the Future: Reshaping the Manufacturing Landscape with Automation and Robotics
As one of Canada's top robotics and automation companies, Enginuity transcends conventional boundaries, consistently pushing the envelope with novel solutions that redefine the industrial paradigm. Our growing expertise in Industry 4.0, robotics, conveying and...
Marine Innovation: An Industry Flooded with Technical Prowess
The ever-changing world of Ocean Technology bears a striking resemblance to the ocean itself right now. The depths of need and potential are vast and the progress coming from the oceans tech ecosystem are constantly smashing any technological boundaries we thought...
Building the Future: How The Industrial Prototype Process Spurs Innovation
Manufacturers explore Automation and Robotics technology for a number of reasons; commercial advantage, worker demographics, competition from abroad or even FOMO. Automation and Robotics are making massive technological leaps quickly, but it’s often challenging for...
Maximizing Product Quality: Automated Testing in Printed Circuit Board Assembly
Manual testing can seem laborous, sloppy and time consuming in today's world of complex designs and cutting-edge technology. For electronics hardware and printed circuit board (PCB) assembly specialists like Enginuity, automated testing is a crucial element of...
Custom Jetson Carrier Boards: The Key to Unleashing AI and ML Potential
How Enginuity is overcoming external supply chain problem while helping companies navigate the AI and ML Landscape. We no longer tackle difficult issues and make important choices in the same ways that we did before the advent of AI and ML. AI and ML...
What is Overall Equipment Effectiveness? A Guide to OEE in Industry 4.0
Overall Equipment Effectiveness is becoming increasingly important as the world moves into Industry 4.0. We'll cover what OEE is, why it's important, and how to calculate it with your own processes. Overall Equipment Effectiveness is like a report card for your...
Innovative new connectors aim to improve safety at sea for Royal Canadian Navy
LoRaWAN: How do we enable IoT for Atlantic Industries?
LoRaWAN is the communications protocol of the future, and you could benefit greatly from it. We'll cover what it is, why we're investing in it, the different applications, and whether it could be a potential fit for your business. Enginuity is proud to announce that...
The Case for Machine Vision: What It Is, and How It Can Help You
Article Contributors: Nathan Field (Robotics and Automation Manager) | Ysa Gonzales (Marketing Coordinator)| Rhodri Armour, PhD, P.Eng (Program Manager, Industry 4.0) | Maxwell Bauer (Mechanical Engineering Co-op) | Alastair Trower (Director of Business...
When Should You Outsource Engineering Services?
Article Contributors: James Dean-Moore (Program Manager for Industrial and Marine) | Maayan Harel, P.Eng. (Program Manager for Aerospace and Defense) | Alastair "Alf" Trower (Director for Business Development) | Ysa Gonzales (Marketing Coordinator)Here's everything...
Digital Twins and Reality Capture | Integrating SDMM’s Technology in our Discovery Process
“We’re looking forward to using this technology so we can go to our customers and say, ‘here’s our strategy, and we’re going to give you an option that’s grounded in reality. Not grounded in maybe’s, nor guess-timates.”Photo courtesy of SDMM Ltd. Enginuity is proud to...
Advantages of Continuous Monitoring Systems – and Why You May Need One
It can be costly and time-consuming to deal with equipment failure when it happens. Although scheduled preventative maintenance (such as quarterly inspections) means routine checkpoints over particular periods of time, there can be a lot of unnecessary downtime...
Designing for Harsh Marine Environments and Ocean Technology
Enginuity’s story began the same way that Atlantic Canada has developed into becoming a region with world-class ocean capabilities – with Ben Garvey, Founder and President, growing up on and around boats. Ben had extensive marine experience prior to starting Enginuity...
The Sky is Not the Limit: Mechanical Engineering, Design, and Finite Element Analysis
Written by Ysa Gonzales, Enginuity Marketing When I asked Mechanical Lead Louis Manuge what differentiates Enginuity’s mechanical team from others, he couldn’t quite pin his finger down to just one answer – and for a good reason. “I think there’s nothing we can’t do....
Can Robotics and Automation Solve Atlantic Canada’s Labour Shortage?
Can Atlantic Canada's Labour Shortage be Solved by Robotics? Written by Nathan Field, Enginuity's Robotics and Automation Manager Atlantic Canada is facing a labour shortage issue that is not altogether unique in North America, but has been exacerbated due many...
UX and its role in Industrial Design
Written by Alicia Stewart, Industrial Designer at EnginuityUser Experience (UX) design has become quite prevalent in the world of product development. Despite its recent popularity there is still much confusion as to what it actually is. So, where is all the confusion...
A Faster, Simpler Launch and Retrieval of Marine Assets: SEA-Lift and SEA-Snap
Introducing marine connectors that will make launch and retrieval for marine assets faster, safer, and more discreet: SEA-Lift and SEA-Snap. The SEA-Lift is a rapidly deployed, high-load dynamic lifting connector designed for challenging marine environments, while the...
Traditional mooring connectors don’t cut it anymore, but this does. | SEA-Stab
Connects in Seconds, Stays for Life. Whether you’re installing a pre-lay for a MODU (Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit), a new spread for an offloading system, installing a tidal turbine, or exploring offshore wind, SEA-Stab from Enginuity offers simple, cost-effective,...
Why Engineering Needs Industrial Design
No matter the complexity of an engineering project, ultimately people are going to use it. Thinking about carrying, gripping, pushing buttons, reading screens; this is where Industrial Design hits Enginuity’s Design Control Process. Industrial Design is an...
What is Finite Element Analysis, or FEA for design engineers?
What is Finite Element Analysis, or FEA?Also called numerical analysis, FEA simulates a physical phenomenon, structure, or system using the Finite Element Method, or FEM. Mathematical equations are applied to allow a computer model to evolve with some variable, like a...
Halifax engineering firm adds Atlantic Canada’s first PCB milling machine to their electronics lab
Our PCB Milling Machine is here! Enginuity’s electronics prototyping capability is growing! The addition of a new PCB milling machine to our electronics lab means we can design and build prototypes (or do small production runs) of newly designed PCBs — printed circuit...
