The Hibbing Taconite (HibTac) team went out to give our final design review today. The engineers at the plant were very happy with the end deliverables of our project. The team decided to go with a single hydraulic ram and a pump package to provide adequate power to lift the large counterweight. This hydraulic ram is going to be mounted on top of the existing structure that is used now to cradle the counterweight and pulley assembly. The team designed a ingenious setup that flipped the hydraulic ram up on end, providing a downward force that directed a gambrel and cable assembly to lift the counterweight. An explanation of the final design and proposed modifications to the existing structure was the purpose of todays visit. It was the last phase of communication between the team and the plant. From here on the engineers on sight are taking over our plans and design recommendations we provided at todays meeting. A lot of time was spent modeling the design on Autodesk Inventor, which is comparable to solid works or Pro-E software packages most of us have used in the past. Using a 3-d modeling software to design the new counterweight lift system was a huge benefit for us in trying to communicate our design ideas to HibTac. Having the ability to pull up our model at will and rotate our model to the perspective in question was a huge asset in our tool belt. This model was then used to generate the 2-d autocad drawings which the plant is used to with their autocad drafting software.
Proofed by: GG
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