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GFX/ANIMATION TITLE: BUILDING THE FUTURE Music up
NARRATOR:
Here's a puzzle: What does this classic 1928 McLaughlin-Buick
have in common with this space mining lunar rover, and with this high-tech device found
in the tap shoes of the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall?
The answer: all of them are the products of Ontario.
Which raises another intriguing question. How did Ontario get to be home to a thriving
and growing advanced manufacturing sector?
NARRATOR: Part of the answer is symbolized by that gorgeous
old automobile. The first McLaughlin-Buick was built in Oshawa, Ontario back in 1908.
One hundred years later more vehicles are now produced in Ontario than in any other
North American jurisdiction. (1) In 2009, that added up to almost one and a
half million cars and trucks. More than 85 percent of them were exported to the U.S.
and over 40 other countries worldwide. (2)
SUPER : Oshawa, Ontario
Looking ahead, Ontario is determined to keep its automotive sector at the leading edge
by supporting the next-generation technologies.
SUPER : JOHN KOMAR: Director of Engineering & Operations,
Automotive Centre of Excellence, Oshawa, Ontario
The Automotive Centre of Excellence is very unique and it's actually on the campus of
the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. But it is owned and operated by the university
but it is for everybody. It is for anybody willing to come in and rent this facility.
What we have is a technology one stop shop under all under one roof for anybody that
wants to innovate and bring that idea to reality.
This climatic wind tunnel is actually very, very unique. ....in addition to wind and rain
and snow and sleet, it provides also solar array so in fact we can simulate sunrise to
sunset. It also has fuelling inside and can support electric vehicles, fuel cells, hydrogen
development, and this provides the most unique climate wind tunnel on the planet.
What we can do here is exactly duplicate a road surface.
This actually is a multi-access simulation table, or shaker table. What you have again,
is another tool in your toolbox. Another testing chamber here that actually provides a more
range of a simulation of motion.
In Ontario we're very good at mark... at manufacturing. So we close that gap between innovation and
ideas and engineering concepts to manufacturing.
SUPER : Guelph, Ontario
NARRATOR: The province is building on its automotive
heritage to move into other areas of advanced manufacturing. A good example of that in action
can be found in Guelph, Ontario, at the global headquarters of Linamar Corporation. It's
a major parts supplier to car companies with 36 plants around the world.
SUPER :LINDA HASENFRATZ: CEO Linamar, Guelph, Ontario
A lot of our business is focused on the automotive industry where we make machine components
and assemblies for engine transmission and drive line systems. And an expanding area
of the business is energy and heavy machining where we make machine product for wind turbines
and solar projects, for instance.
SUPER : Sudbury, Ontario
NARRATOR: One day this little vehicle, or one very much
like it, could be roaming around the moon, Mars or an asteroid prospecting for water
or minerals. At first glance, Sudbury, Ontario may seem
an odd place to build space vehicles. But it was here that Apollo astronauts came to
train because the rock these rovers are clambering over is some of the oldest on earth, and very
similar to the rock found on the moon. That ancient rock is also rich in valuable
minerals such as gold and nickel. Put those two facts together and then designing and
building space mining technology here makes a lot of sense.
SUPER : DALE BOUCHER: Director of Innovation & Development, NORCAT,
Sudbury, Ontario
NORCAT was started with the help of the Ontario government. The Ontario government realized
that Sudbury was a major mining camp, or probably the largest in the world, and there was some
potential to grow economic activity in this region based on that.
Recent data coming out of lunar reconnaissance orbiter indicate that there's water ice on
the moon at about 60 centimetres below surface....We still need to get down there and actually
drill a hole and pull up a sample to understand if that's really true or not.
So we started offering our expertise as a consultant, and the next thing you know the
Canadian Space Agency stepped forward and said, "Why don't you build a drill?" And then
NASA stepped forward and said, "Hey, we want a drill." And then CSA said, "Well, hey, we
want some rovers and we want excavators and we want other mining technologies." And so
we've evolved to the point where we now are looking at min... existing mining technologies
and trying to adapt it for space exploration.
SUPER : Thunder Bay, Ontario
Right in behind us .. the new generation of Toronto subway carÖ.
NARRATOR: Subway cars may not be as exotic as lunar
rovers but Bombardier's products impact the lives of millions of people around the world
every day.
SUPER : CLAUDE GINGRAS: General Manager, Bombardier Transportation,
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Today Bombardier is the global leader. Worldwide we have facilities in 60 countries.
NARRATOR: Gingras is a great believer in that old real
estate maxim; location, location, location.
CLAUDE GINGRAS:
Thunder Bay has a port. ..There was one project where we imported a lot of materials from
Europe. Easy access with the port, easy access through rail, air freight . Relatively easy
to move our products, either by road, by rail, or depending on smaller parts, even by air
to sites within Canada or the US as wellÖ through the Great Lakes, through the St. Lawrence,
and over into Europe.
SUPER: Peterborough, Ontario
NARRATOR: Advanced manufacturing requires a broad range
of support and services. And Ontario boasts a thriving cluster of companies like global
giant Siemens that supply important production components, components like the precision
instruments required for assembly lines.
SUPER : MATT MORRISSEY: Product Manager, Siemens Weighing Technology
Siemens Weighing offers products for weighing applications, and we have three main product
lines that we offer. The first is belt scales which monitor the flow rate of material on
conveyer belts. The second is flow meters, gravity-fed solids flow meters which monitor
material from one process into another. And the third is weigh feeders, which actually
control the flow-rate of material into or out of a process.
SUPER : ANDREW BLAZEY: VP & General Manager, Siemens Milltronics,
Peterborough, Ontario
In our facility here, we've got research and development, we've got our HR facility, RT,
manufacturing, logistics, and marketing. We export all over the world.
SUPER: Bolton, Ontario
NARRATOR:
This is also a measuring device, but it measures much, much smaller things. It's called a mass
spectrometer and it measures the characteristics of atoms and molecules. It's used in everything
from astronomy to pharmaceutical manufacturing. And here in Bolton, Ontario, they're making
a revolutionary mass spectrometer they hope will expand its applications dramatically.
SUPER : REZA JAVAHERY: President, Ionics Mass Spectrometry Group,
Bolton, Ontario
Our mass spectrometer is unique in the sense that we are the, if you want to consider it,
we are the first second-generation mass spectrometer providers in the world.
SUPER : LISA COUSINS: Vice President of Research & Development,
Ionics Mass Spectrometry Group, Bolton, Ontario
The 3Q is a really exciting new mass spectrometer. It's got some features that are completely
new in the world, including this small vertical structure, small footprint, ultra-high sensitivity,
high-speed. Weíre the only company with the kind of technology
within mass spectrometry that we are offering.
NARRATOR:
Ontario is home to one of the world's most vibrant film and television industries. But
making movies is not just an art, it's a science.
SUPER : Thunder Bay, Ontario
NARRATOR :
And in the science of filmmaking, Ontario is taking a leading role.
SUPER : DENNIS WOOD: President & CEO, Cinevate, Thunder Bay, Ontario
We design and we manufacture tools for filmmakers. And in terms of tools, what do we make? Well,
it's tools that increase production value. So whether they're mini dollies, the Cyclops
Viewfinder enhancement, they're all things that basically make your shots as a shooter
look more professional.
DEMO SEQUENCE
The way Cinevate began was reallyÖ.I didnít like the look of video. It didnít look like
film. It didnít have control over depth of field. And one of the thingsÖwhen youíre
recording this image for exampleÖ.with the video camera, youíre going to see a lot of
the background. And you donít have as much control over where the focus point is.
SUPER "WITH CINEVATE TECHNOLOGY" - "WITHOUT CINEVATE TECHNOLOGY"
Dennis Wood continuedÖ
When you have control over the focus point, I can direct your attention to that point,
so we call that depth of field, in the world of filmmaking. So with a lens adapter, I can
put a 100 mm macro lens on there and I can decide if the focus pointís my nose or my
ear. Shooting with video you donít have that ah Itís a much deeper depth of field. It
doesnít give you that selective field of focus and thatís one of the tools that filmmakers
use to make their films lookÖ ìfilmyî.
NARRATOR: Of course great images are one thing but to
make outstanding films and television programs, you also need great sound.
SUPER : London, Ontario
Paul Johnson (see below) What weíre looking at here is a group of
the Quantum 5X products. This is a wireless transmitter. It is the smallest broadcast
quality, audio transmitter in the world.
NARRATOR: If you've ever watched baseball, hockey or
basketball, chances are you've heard Q5X's technology.
SUPER: PAUL JOHNSON: CEO, Quantum5X Systems, London, Ontario
So this is a unit that is designed for the NBA. It is the same technology basically,
packaged slightly different. There is no antenna. The antenna is internal. And as well the package
is in a urethane rubber, so it's very flexile. We also do a lot of specialty applications,
and I think the most significant specialty application that we've developed is one for
Radio City Music Hall for the Rockettes. And in this case, we're actually mic'ing the tap
shoes of the Rockettes so they can be heard. The theatre at Radio City Music Hall is very
large, it's about 6,000 seats, and as much as they would like to think that they can
hear the tap shoes throughout the theatre, they can't.
NARRATOR: Those are just a few of the reasons why Ontario
boasts such a great and growing advanced manufacturing sector.
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