Explore Custom Industrial Engine Design in Engineering

be used in industrial applications so for years industrial companies have purchased regular engines and converted them for industrial use and generators oil fields uh powered data centers things like that and so as gm as that gets exited out of making those it provides an opportunity for us to use our performance industry knowledge and apply it to industrial applications so the two help each other out as uh you can see that looks like a small block forward head yep yep and that's one of the things that we have the ability to do is to take things that we've experienced in our past through our other applications and figure out what combinations will work work well together and really our goal is to get the customer what they need and that provides us with an opportunity to to do some things you wouldn't get to do with a standard oem application so when we design an engine one of the things we want to make sure of before we get too much money invested in it is that everything fits together so our engineering team is able to use our 3d printer and use actual hardware that we have today and project we're going to be using in the future and as they do that they can take the 3d model and make sure everything fits up properly so like for this engine we've already got an existing oil pan but now we're going to have a timing cover made for us we're going to have a block made for us we're going to have exhaust manifolds made for us so this allows us to take a 3d plastic part assemble it with our parts and make sure that when we get everything in it'll fit together and function just fine for us so this is like your design engine block yep you know it's based off of an existing design and it's being modified with our individual components that that meet with the customer needs so you'll see sensors in place you haven't traditionally seen sensors you'll see bolt up bosses and things like that for areas that you wouldn't typically see them on on these engines and you know we work with our our customers to design what they need i think stuff like this is a lot more interesting than you guys probably think it is to the people who are watching this exactly yeah that's you know it's no matter what line of business you're in it's really cool to see a big old lego version of a model and it's like yeah it's like adult tinker toys and legos after you do