How do you design a harness closure that has to work every time, in every condition, for riders of every size? 🏄
Joost Hezemans, Technical Design Lead at North Actionsports Group in the Netherlands, takes you inside the development of the third-generation Stealth Bar and shows how SOLIDWORKS acts as a universal design language, connecting his team with global partners and driving the process from first prototype to final production.
North Actionsports Group includes North Windsurfing, North Kite, North Foil and Mystic - the brand behind its wetsuits, helmets and harnesses.
In this video, you'll see how they use SOLIDWORKS to:
- Design the Stealth Bar's closing lever, a mechanism that opens quickly and locks back into a safe position
- Scale one design into multiple sizes with parametric modeling
- Speak a universal design language with partners in New Zealand and beyond - sharing drawings, checking each other's work and moving confidently toward production
With their manufacturer far away, North Actionsports can't afford design changes once production starts. SOLIDWORKS helps the team lock in precise drawings and tolerances up front, so what they design is exactly what gets built.