When the auto industry crashed in 2008
and the tool shop where Jay Weiner worked
closed its operations, he started his own
company, called BiggerBoat Solutions Ltd.
He carries out metal-forming simulations
for major tooling suppliers and originalequipment
manufacturers. With 15 years
of experience in tooling design, Weiner and
his Toronto-based practice offered a service
that no one else had perfected but that
was crucial to a key process in automotive
manufacturing: the simulation-based die
design for stamped sheet-metal parts.