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Enhanced Solutions For Manufacturing
Coda Enhance is a Mechanical Engineering & Design company that combines practical, real-world experience with cutting edge technologies, empowering our clients to achieve and maintain first class results. Our Innovative engineering solutions focus on sustainable, long term financial benefits and performance for any application
Advanced Design for Advanced Manufacturing
Coda Enhance employs cutting edge design tools and manufacturing techniques to enhance manufacturing systems and optimise productivity.
Our bespoke engineering service provides accurate 3D design and manufacture of machinery and components readily available to those who are seeking to optimise their manufacturing processes.
We can identify and implement practical LEAN manufacturing principles coupled with advanced manufacturing techniques to create unique, identifiable machine components for aiding machine setup or changeover.
What Drives Us
We are passionate about helping others to achieve their goals by embracing new innovative ways to solve age old problems. This is our driving force for creating the work we love. At Coda Enhance, we are always seeking the next problem to solve by application of new technologies and systems to not only improve the bottom line but also greatly affect the sustainability of industry.
About Us
Our Values
- Results are our game, the satisfaction of realising improvements for our clients is what started us and will continue to drive us.
- The Devil is always in the Detail, and we firmly believe that understanding your problem is critical and investment in this upfront will create lasting benefits.
- A Collaborative Approach is key to ensuring that our clients are involved throughout the process. No one knows your business requirements better than you do and we embrace this.
- We are Divergent Thinkers and live outside the box. We are Problem junkies, none too big, too small or challenging, but all exciting and waiting to be solved.
- Small and Mighty. We may be small, but our structure allows us to be agile and provide clients with personalized access wealth of knowledge and experience
Our Services
- 3D Modelling / 2D Drafting - Solidworks / AutoCAD
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for component optimisation and material selection.
- Additive Manufacturing using cutting edge 3D printing technologies and materials.
- Precision machining from Complex CNC designs to one off manual jobbing work.
- Process consultation & optimisation including machine specification, system layout & design for automation.
- Bespoke machine design and automation to suit your requirements.
- Start-up Assistance and product design / prototyping
- Development of job specific tooling or production aids to yield gains in efficiency and cost.
About Warrick
Experience & Skills
5 years Engineering manager with a Listed GMP manufacturing facility focusing on capital projects, asset integrity and process optimisation.
2 years designing production systems and layouts for the fresh produce industry. Site based installation, commissioning and maintenance.
10 years trade and leadership roles in the newsprint industry focused on equipment reliability and output.
CNC & manual machining, TIG welding, Machine maintenance.
Education
Associate Degree in Mechanical Engineering (EA Member)
Certified Solidworks Professional (CSWP)
Cert III in Mechanical Engineering (Fitting and Machining)
Cert III in Competitive Systems and Practices
Restricted Electrical License (QLD)
High Risk Work License – Forklift / Dogging
Automation Study
The Problem
Our client was utilising manual labour to insert spherical rollers into deodorant products prior to capping. This process hindered output speed of the production, required excessive labour and introduced HSE risk via Repetitive Strain Injury.
The main constraint was the available space and the design had to be installed easily with existing machinery.
The Solution
Coda Enhance designed an automated “pick and place” pneumatic system to alleviate the need for operator intervention during production. The use of 3D design and printing for selected components facilitated an efficient, compact design to seamlessly integrate with existing equipment. Documented design aided in operator training and validation requirements for the GMP environment.
The Result
The machine is capable of fault free placement of products at up to 70 Bottles/minute with intermittent filling of the product hopper being the only interaction from the operator.
The Client realised a 31% reduction in direct labour cost and allowed the production line to consistently run at its optimal speed.
Enhancement Study
The Problem
High failure rates of a key assets were causing extensive downtime along with expensive maintenance costs to rebuild. Coda Enhance were engaged to recreate the existing design in a 3D model to analyse critical components and subsequently enhance systems for higher functionality and reliability in service.
The Solution
The stripper roller crankshaft assembly was redesigned to align opposing forces and reduce load on critical components. The design incorporated carefully selected OEM components to reduce manufacturing costs whilst enhancing the system performance. Careful consideration was taken to ensure the design could be readily serviced in situ.
The Result
Enhanced structural integrity increased major service times from 3 months to 18 months whilst access in service accommodated routine maintenance inspections and replacement.
Overhaul could be carried out by a single technician in hours rather than a week for two technicians. Capital outlay for each roller was $12k with an estimated saving in labour alone of $15k pa in service and over $40k p/a in downtime. the client has 3 of these in production.
Efficiency Study
The Problem
Our Client was using a 3-stage process to apply and shrink tamper evident sleeves to a liquid product to ensure GMP compliance.
The existing process utilised manual handling of products into a large 3 phase 13Kw heating tunnel then manually loading them back onto the line for further production requirements.
The Solution
An inline shrink sleeve heat tunnel to drastically reduce power consumption, time and handling of products. The system needed to be efficient and thus employed 3D printing in Stainless Steel to create an air sieve to direct hot air to the critical areas, ensuring the sleeves were adequately shrunk to products on the line.
The Result
The new system cut power consumption from 13Kw to 1.5Kw with an inline throughput of 20m/min and a reduced footprint from 3.6m2 to 0.1m2 accommodating further automation in the system. Labour savings of 3 pax per production coupled with power reduction realised an estimated saving in excess of $50k p/a whilst increasing asset availability, product quality and compliance through consistent heating.