Design, Build, Deliver
The full range of heavy-equipment engineering services
MEDATech Engineering designs, builds and delivers customized heavy-duty mobile equipment. Approximately half of our business centres on Engineering Services, from project consulting to equipment design and development, controls system development, telematics and robotics. Whether you need a solid design or a finished piece of equipment, MEDATech is well-known for its ability to design, build and deliver in-house.
Engineering consulting
Many great solutions begin with the question ‘What if?’. MEDATech has a long history of answering that question through consulting and feasibility studies.
Whether your ‘what if’ centres on energy and process management, fleet improvements or productivity metrics, we can help you to get the answer you need to move in the right direction. Read about our Vehicle & Fleet Electrification Feasibility Studies, or find out more about our broader Engineering Consulting & Feasibility capabilities.
Equipment design & development
When it comes to designing and building an entire vehicle, you need a high level of coherence across systems in development. That can only be achieved if the entire vehicle is built by one team, which is what we do at MEDATech every day. Most design firms will outsource discreet parts of the build, but from what we’ve seen that’s a recipe for a machine that is never quite right.
Building a complete machine that works the way you want it to takes deep expertise across mechanical, fluid, electrical and control systems. We combine this knowhow with advanced technologies and best practices. We build a lot of control-systems and other software, develop vehicle telematics capabilities, and always meet or exceed safety regulations. Find out more about our equipment design & development capabilities.
Controls system development
MEDATech undertakes a broad range of control system design and development, including CanBus, GPS, Automation, PLC, GUI development and much more. Because we design for our clients’ express needs, we are able to develop industry-leading systems and upgrade existing systems.
Robotics & material handling
MEDATech has developed a range of automated systems and machines to help with tasks such as moving and stacking objects, inserting and extracting rod and casing on drill rigs (RodBot™), and handling spent nuclear fuel containers. We use automation and robotics to save clients time, increase safety, and reduce human error. Find out more.
News
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How Do You Know You’re Choosing The Right Electric Vehicle?
The science behind EV fleet planning Industrial battery-electric vehicles work as hard or harder than diesel versions, with clear environmental and health benefits. You want financial benefits too, but how can you be sure you’re making the right choices? Is your chosen vehicle really suitable for the work? Can it capture all the battery regeneration…
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Don MacLean: the passing of a legend
Don “Ducky” MacLean made ‘MacLean Engineering’ a name brand in the mining industry, worldwide. Unfortunately for all of us, we lost Don last Thursday. Over 50 years ago, Ducky had a vision: to make underground equipment for mining that would provide a safer environment for miners. Through Don’s capability to innovate, MacLean made mining safer.…
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Battery-electric drivetrain kits hit the market
Building an industrial battery-electric vehicle (BEV) just got a whole lot easier. MEDATech ALTDRIVE isnow offering complete BEV powertrains kits that fit existing engine compartments. They come in 140kW, 360 kW and 720 kW sizes, suitable for machines as small as a backhoe and as large as a mining haultruck. These kits are fully customizable…
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WaterBox – A Water Pump Built For Water-Hammer Drills
Down-the-hole (DTH) water-hammer drilling (also known as ‘Wassara drilling’) is used in sensitive drilling situations. One challenge with this kind of drilling has always been fluctuating pressure and flowrate. That’s why we created WaterBox™ – for greater precision. The MEDATech Borterra WaterBox is a self-contained diesel- or electric-powered unit that pumps water at the exact…
Projects
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Media Luna “Muckahi” Feasibility
The “Muckahi” process, conceptualized and patented by Fred Stanford, President & CEO of Torex theoretically revolutionizes steep incline methods of mineral extractions….
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Camiro Micro Bolter
The mining industry has an enviable record of overcoming engineering challenges, but one challenge that has baffled equipment designers and engineers until now…
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Hydro Dam – Stator Jacking Towers
Andritz Hydro was commissioned by Ontario Power Generation to provide several new hydro turbines for the Lower Matagami and Lower Notch powerstation projects.
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OPG Waste Haulage Fleet Management
Ontario Power Generation contracted MEDATECH to make major repairs to a recently commissioned nuclear waste transporter….