Product development involves a dedicated team of engineering, quality, purchasing, manufacturing, and marketing specialists.

Capabilities

  • Full HVAC system development
  • Sheet metal
  • Plastics and composites
  • Advanced electronic and climate controls
  • Heat exchangers
  • Piping and hose coupling
  • Air distribution and ducting

Tools

Working with diverse design criteria requires the latest engineering tools. These include:

  • PTC Creo Elements/Pro (formerly Pro/ENGINEER) suite for CAD/CAM/SAE modeling, finite element analysis, and prototyping.
  • CFdesign, which turns each MCAD workstation into a fully interactive fluid-flow bench and thermal test rig. We use it to simulate and optimize the design, placement, and performance of blowers, fans, compressors, heat exchangers, and other components.
  • KULI software to calculate heat loads on components and optimize thermal management.
  • Fortus 440mc 3D production system to deliver fast, accurate, durable prototypes and production-grade parts out of high-performance thermoplastics.  

Red Dot’s proprietary heat load and system prediction software helps us compute and analyze steady-state heat loads for ambient and desired cab conditions. This in turn allows us to calculate heat loads and size system components appropriately.

Our MCAD system is linked to the manufacturing floor for greater accuracy, less design time for new products, and quicker modifications to existing ones.

Advanced Engineering & Testing

Red Dot’s Advanced Engineering and Test Group in Seattle operates one of the most sophisticated research and test facilities in the industry. Learn more

 

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