economic development and the cloud: the alberta advantage -- nathan armstrong, motive industries
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Motive Industries Inc.
Vision for Rural Communities
Motive Industries is a Vehicle Design, Engineering and Prototyping Services Company
• Founded 2004 in Irvine, California
• Calgary headquarters founded 2006
• 100% Canadian owned company
• Over 25 complete production vehicle designs
• Over 200 successful major vehicle projects
• Over 500 successful major prototype programs
II Introduction
• Innovation, development and commercialisation
• Prototype and production level vehicle design and engineering
• Low cost - rapid time to market solutions
• Low-volume manufacturing solutions
• Prototype and proof-of-concept construction
• Advanced composite materials
• Motors and generators
• Battery systems
• Drive systems
• Integration
II Areas of focus
› 2011 TechRev Innovation Award
› 2010 Alberta Science and Technology (ASTech) Applied Technology Award
› Aptera wins Popular Mechanics 2008 Breakthrough Innovation Award
› T3 Motion’s “T3 Series” wins the 2007 Law Enforcement Innovation Award for best vehicle
› Tamarack Loon wins Best New EV Award, San Jose Future of Electric Vehicles
› Dodge Rampage wins best Chicago Auto Show World Introduction 2006
II Awards
II What We Do
II Ideation
II Photoshop
II Class-A Surface Data
II Photos renderings
II Body, platform and interiors
II Prototyping
II Tooling and fixturing
II Testing and analysis
II Manufacturing support
II Marketing and Launch Support
II The Vision for Rural Economies
II CATIA V6 Cloud-based solutions
II Super Designer Initiative Pilot Project
The primary driver behind the SDI Pilot Project is to address a need within the Alberta landscape to improve productivity by embracing a culture of collaborative and concurrent design.
Concurrent design in your industry would consider all aspects of a construction project’s life-cycle (functionality, assembly, maintenance, etc.) at the same time, in a forward-planning approach.
CATIA V6’s integrated data management architecture and its ability concurrent input along a value chain is anticipated to create significant impacts on productivity.
The Alberta economy is driven by an entrepreneurial culture that weaves large firm financial capacity and stability with Alberta small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) risk-taking mindset and doer attitude. SME firms are viewed as the engine of the economy and this status gives them a respected visibility that can influence technology diffusion.
The firms that have been selected to participate in SDI have committed to share their experience. This is very important to the government funders as they want SDI to serve as an industry development investment than can both entice discussions about productivity improvements and entice industry to make scalable investments in best-in-class proven technologies that support this end.
Stakeholders (Core Funder Group): • NRC-IRAP • Productivity Alberta • Alberta Ministry Employment and Immigration • Alberta Ministry Finance and Enterprise, Aerospace and Defense
II BlackBridge Data Center
II tecconnect Lethbridge
tecconnect is a new facility in Lethbridge that is designed to attract, incubate and develop technology companies through commercialization of products and services.
The centre has an Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) focus with a specific emphasis in geospatial imaging.
www.tecconnect.ca
