Engineering Services

What We Do

Our specialists are ready to assist you with process optimization, design, and production. We train our team on the latest industry software applications, ensuring the highest level of workmanship.

Whether as the project lead, engineering support, or chief architect, Mecanica’s three decades of AEC and Automotive experience make us well equipped to productively work in any space.

Staff Outsourcing

Mecanica provides placement services on a contractual and contingency basis for specialized engineering resources in the automotive, aerospace, and architectural industries. We are able to support our contractual personnel with our in-house team of technical specialists. Also, as a Dassault VAR, we have the unique ability to:

Test and assess skills of candidates and provide a report when candidates are presented

Provide training to candidates to address skills gaps

Take a look at some of the projects that we contributed to in the past:

Aerospace

Inflight
Mecanica designed the wiring harnesses for Inflight’s entertainment systems for Air Canada.

Bell Helicopter
Mecanica designed the composite tail boom for the Bell 412 as well as all of the tooling required to fabricate its components.

FRE Composite
Our company designed special computer attachment devices and performed finite element analyses to validate our design for use on the Space Shuttle Canadarm.

Messier-Dowty
Mecanica implemented CATIA and provided training as well as performing design, finite element analyses, and NC programming services for various landing gears.

Automotive

FERRARI, MASERATI, HARLEY-DAVIDSON

Mecanica has been a design engineering and IT partner since 1996, implementing CATIA, and VPM, and supporting the user community. Mecanica has participated in the design of the chassis, aerodynamics,s, and engine of both Formula 1 and Ferrari production cars. We were also an official sponsor of the Ferrari Formula 1 team from 2001 through 2004.

Mecanica has been a design engineering / IT partner with Maserati since 2001. We have implemented CATIA, VPM, and supporting the user community for body and chassis as well as the ProEngineer environment for engine development. Mecanica provided design services for the chassis, aerodynamic, and engine sectors for the MC-12 race car as well as the production street car including Industrial Design work on the Quattroporte.

Mecanica designed a new carburetor for Magneti Marelli’s client – Harley-Davidson Motorcycles.

Architecture & Construction

Mecanica took the architectural design and modeled the entire monument in CATIA. Subsequently, we created all of the shop drawings for the fabrication and assembly, as well as all of the required tooling such as jigs and fixtures.

Air Force Memorial Alexandria, VA Designed by James Ingo Freed

Frank Gehry Design—Mecanica used the architecture design to produce detailed engineering models and fabrication details for the complex roof structure.

Princeton University – Lewis Science Library Princeton, NJ Designed by Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry Design—Mecanica used the architectural design to produce detailed engineering models and fabrication details for both the complex central staircase as well as the wooden mullion grid structure on the façade which holds the glazing.

Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) Toronto, ON Designed by Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry Design—Mecanica used the architecture design to produce detailed engineering models and fabrication details for the complex roof structure.