{"id":9024,"date":"2017-07-05T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T17:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=9024"},"modified":"2018-05-03T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:52:01","slug":"solidworks-entrepreneur-canvas-technology-breaking-waste-product-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2017\/07\/solidworks-entrepreneur-canvas-technology-breaking-waste-product-transportation.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur: Canvas Technology Breaking Down Waste in Product Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9025\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canvas.technology\/#home\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9025 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-Technology-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-Technology-Logo.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-Technology-Logo-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Canvas Technology Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canvas.technology\/#home\">Canvas Technology<\/a> eliminates waste in the transport of products through factories, warehouses and beyond. Canvas Technology\u2019s team uses their knowledge of robotics, lean manufacturing and marketing to reduce time for end to end delivery of goods. This highly qualified team is bringing warehouses and factories into the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticsbusinessreview.com\/supply-chain\/canvas-technology-develops-automotive-level-autonomy-goods-delivery\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9030\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-RBR-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">Canvas Technology recently came out of stealth mode in October. Since then, they have been featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticsbusinessreview.com\/supply-chain\/canvas-technology-develops-automotive-level-autonomy-goods-delivery\/\">Robotics Business Review<\/a> for their autonomous vehicles. Their work with vision based perception creates a more accurate canvas sensor. Canvas Technology continues to push the boundaries of their field.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9027\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9027\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-demo-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-demo-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-demo-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-demo-615x290.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-demo-728x343.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-demo.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Demo of Canvas Technology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Using the sheet metal plugin and circuits\u2019 plugin from SOLIDWORKS, Canvas Technology has been able to bring their mission of improving the world and pushing the boundaries of robotics to life. I had a chance to talk with Co-founder and VP of Marketing, <strong>Sandra McQueen<\/strong>, to discuss Canvas Technology\u2019s journey. \u201cWe use the [SOLIDWORKS] Entrepreneurship Program in our normal business operations. It allowed us to create CAD designs at the early stage of our company, without having to invest our limited resources in a CAD software tool from the outset of our company. We chose SOLIDWORKS mainly because of its low price and widespread use with early-career hires.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9029\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9029\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Canvas-team.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"185\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Canvas Technology Team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">Currently, Canvas Technology is preparing to launch their first product to market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Thank you to Sandra McQueen and Canvas Technology for being a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/communities\/solidworks-for-entrepreneurs.htm\">SOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur<\/a><span style=\"color: black;\"> and sharing with our community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canvas Technology eliminates waste in the transport of products through factories, warehouses and beyond. Canvas Technology\u2019s team uses their knowledge of robotics, lean manufacturing and marketing to reduce time for end to end delivery of goods. This highly qualified team<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2017\/07\/solidworks-entrepreneur-canvas-technology-breaking-waste-product-transportation.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":9025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5207,5491,5492,5683,5766,5211],"tags":[6102,6082,5915,4048,5493,5543,6071,5918,4783,3931,5768,6070,6099,6100,6096,6098,6097,6101,6095,3990,5916,6094,5544],"class_list":["post-9024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-2","category-customer-stories","category-design-2","category-entrepreneurs","category-solidworks-entrepreneur","category-technology-2","tag-advancement","tag-better-the-world","tag-canvas-technology","tag-engineering","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-factory","tag-innovation","tag-solidworks","tag-solidworks-entrepreneur","tag-startup","tag-startups-in-boulder","tag-startups-in-colorado","tag-startups-in-factories","tag-startups-in-shipping","tag-startups-in-transportation","tag-startups-in-usa","tag-startups-in-warehouses","tag-stem","tag-transportation","tag-women-empowerment","tag-women-entrepreneurs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9798,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions\/9798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}