CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
10 August 2004
Implementation Investments
VX CAD/CAM Used by JSP to Produce Innovative Industrial Safety Helmet
Johnstone Safety Products Ltd. (JSP) of the UK has been a leading producer of industrial safety helmets for more than 30 years. JSP recently introduced the most feature-rich helmets they have ever produced, the Mark VI R/VII R. To do this they used VX CAD/CAM software.
The new VI R/VII R helmets embody years of JSP's industrial safety knowledge. The helmets are modular units of sophisticated design, having best in class harness suspension and offering a wide range of features and accessories to provide a complete solution across many industry uses.
Asked about JSP's use of VX CAD/CAM software, Mark Williams, JSP director of R & D, said "The complete assembly of the Mark VI R/VII R helmet consists of both an ergonomic, organically shaped shell and harness coupled with custom designed mechanical components. VX is a hybrid modeler that gives all of the advantages of both solids and surface product definition. VX software has consistently met our demanding requirements and we have been able to swiftly produce all of our product definition data. JSP has found VX CAD/CAM to be easy to use and a very capable product, giving design freedom without compromise. For example, we required the helmet shell to have a precisely controlled variable wall thickness and needed external reinforcement features to blend tangentially into the base shape-a task easily accomplished with VX."
JSP Ltd of Oxford, England, was established in 1964. JSP manufacture a full range of Personal Protective Equipment that includes Head, Face, Eye, Hearing, Respiratory, Road Safety Furniture, Janitorial, Spill Control and Containment Products, offering the complete solution to all safety requirements. JSP has manufacturing facilities on three continents and exports to over 85 countries.. Every JSP product conforms to appropriate British, European and International performance specifications and they operate a Quality Management System to ISO9001. Independent test houses ensure compliance of JSP products for CE Marking. For more information on the new helmets, you can contact JSP at 44 1993 826050 or go to the JSP website http://www.jsp.co.uk and follow the link for the Mark VI/VII Safety Helmet.
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