January 2009
Island Sky has developed a patented technology for transforming water vapor into potable water.
This new development is the latest in a long line of remarkable sustainability-focused innovations designed with SolidWorks 3D CAD software.
“High-quality water is typically transported from springs, distilled, perhaps packaged, and transported again, leaving a considerable carbon footprint,” said Island Sky Vice President of Engineering, George Dubois.
“Our mission is to provide low cost, high-quality drinking water to people in every corner of the world and to supply critical emergency drinking water equipment to relief agencies for crisis areas where potable water is unavailable.”
Island Sky has developed two water-making products: Skywater 14, a home/office model, and Skywater 300, a larger outdoor model just entering mass production. The multipatented devices consist of more than 400 parts each, designed from top to bottom in SolidWorks, and produce as much as 1,100 liters per day.
“There’s an urgent demand for our products, as you might imagine, so development speed is of the essence,” said Dubois.
“SolidWorks is an excellent tool that helps us work very quickly. We conserve time, money, and material resources by carefully studying all our prototypes in SolidWorks so the first physical assembly works perfectly. Our team has a long and varied design resume, including aerospace and medical, and SolidWorks was simply the logical choice. Our manufacturing partners use SolidWorks, too, so communication is simple.”
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