Javelin’s customers excel in every sector, from product design and top-tier manufacturing to healthcare and education. Right now, many of them are shifting, diversifying, retooling, and retraining, in some cases to contribute directly to fighting COVID-19, in other cases to support ongoing essential work in sectors such as agricutlture and food production, engery, and transportation. We are proud to feature stories of some of the Canadian businesses doing exceptional work.
Spartan Bioscience
One of Javelin’s SOLIDWORKS customers in Canada’s capital region is having a massive impact on COVID-19 testing capabilities. On April 13, Spartan Bioscience received Health Canada approval for its rapid, accurate, and portable COVID-19 test, which provides results in less than an hour. Now that the test has approval, Spartan has started shipping to their Canadian government partners.
The Spartan Cube
The “Spartan Cube” is the world’s smallest DNA analyzer, about the size of a coffee cup. The Cube performs the test using Spartan’s test cartridges and proprietary swabs.
The Spartan Cube – COVID-19 rapid testing kit
SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Design
SOLIDWORKS is Spartan’s primary mechanical design tool. They also use SOLIDWORKS PDM (product data management) to manage their CAD data.
Using SOLIDWORKS helped make accelerated product development possible, with both time savings and reduced errors. Having the PDM and SOLIDWORKS systems set up to handle component information through custom properties and data cards, to be able to automatically fill in elements like drawing title blocks and bill of materials, meant that no one on the team had to spend time on “paperwork.” They spent time building models and testing them.
Spartan’s engineering team also recognized support from Javelin, attributing much of their learning to Javelin’s training courses, technical blog, and resource library.
Thank you Spartan Bioscience
Spartan’s made-in-Canada testing solution can be used by non-laboratory personnel in settings such as airports, border crossings, doctors’ offices, pharmacies, and remote communities. Congratulations and thank you to Spartan Bioscience for their critical contribution to fighting the pandemic.
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