Design and Consulting

Capacity

Expand your design team exactly when you need to. Create new mentorship opportunities for your team.

Feasibility

Sanity-check the overall feasibility before launching into a development.

Ideation and Design Coaching

Challenge the assumptions that might be holding you back. Clarify the framework, process and objectives of your engineering challenge.

Develop Design Certainty

Keep the budget for prototypes, design iterations and testing in check by maintaining a clear idea of staged objectives, designing the “minimum value experiment” and matching detail with design certainty at every stage.

Put it into Production

Tailor a lean product development approach to your project. Document your design and engage with suppliers. Production ease starts with good design, production cost is locked into a poor design.

Cost and Reliability

Strip cost out of an existing product, think out of the box. Reassess all costs in a design against the objectives & value they achieve. Design in reliability, design out assembly errors. Design your product to be used the wrong way, and still survive.

Perspective

Get some fresh eyes on a particularly difficult problem. Hitting a design “brick wall” sometimes requires brute force, and sometimes just needs someone to show you how to step around it.

Design Competencies

Metal Engineering

  • Turning

  • Machining

  • Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

  • Aluminum Castings

  • Forgings

  • Stampings

  • Fasteners & Locating

  • Sealing

  • Heat Treating and Hardening

  • Mechanical and Chemical Surface Coating & Treatments

Machine Design

  • Torque, Power & Efficiency

  • Selection of Bearings

  • Gear Design and Sizing

  • Shafting, Splines and Drivetrain

  • Belts and Pulleys

  • Clutches & Brakes

  • Stresses, Fatigue

  • Vibrations, Torsional and Structural Resonance

  • Lubrication

Pressure and Flow

  • Rotary Screw and Piston Compressors

  • Air System Design, CFM, Duty Cycles

  • Thermal and Condensate Management

  • Fittings and Hoses

  • Pressure Vessels and Compliance Requirements

  • Reservoirs, Tanks & Accumulators

Production Systems

  • Lean Manufacturing Philosophy

  • Kanban Visual Communication

  • Simple Inventory Reduction & Control methods

  • Design of work cells and tool

  • Jigs and Fixtures

  • Quality-At-Source production

  • Poka-Yoke Error Prevention

  • Applying Lean Thinking to Project Management & Development

  • Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

  • Daily Production Management: Meetings and Methods

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