Mechanical Engineering Services

Mechanical Engineering in the Design Process

Our mechanical engineers are equipped to jump in at various points from start to finish in the product development process. Within our cross-functional team, our 15+ mechanical engineers collaborate with our researchers, designers, and prototypers.

Our team has experience partnering with clients across a myriad of industries, often centering on medical, industrial, and consumer programs. Ranging from working within strict FDA requirements for medical projects to more informal simple part development, we work within your team’s project needs, intended application, and industry. We create unique solutions based on a project’s needs and requirements to maintain design intent into production.

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Mechanical Engineer, Don Meves

With the overall breadth of experience Priority Designs has to offer, it gives someone like me an opportunity to gain access to it. We’ve been thrilled with the relationships and look forward to the next project being kicked off.

President & CEO
Sirchie

With the overall breadth of experience Priority Designs has to offer, it gives someone like me an opportunity to gain access to it. We’ve been thrilled with the relationships and look forward to the next project being kicked off.

President & CEO
Sirchie

Mechanical Engineering Services

Our Skillset

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Mechanical Engineering Tasks

Concept development to production handoff
Advanced CAD modeling (Solid Works, Creo, and Catia)
Analysis: tolerance stackups, linear and nonlinear structural finite element analysis
Rapid functional prototypes for initial concept validation
Detailed engineering prototypes for final validation
Design for production readiness (DFM/DFA/FMEA)
FEA Validation and Testing
Root cause analysis

Prototyping Processes

Proof-of-Concept and Engineering Prototypes are critical for evaluating designs, testing and proving the design’s functionality. Proof-of-concept prototypes focus on verifying feasibility of a solution. Engineering prototypes are used in the early development of mechanisms to prove or disprove concepts and compare performance.

Both of these prototyping processes allow us to quickly iterate and evaluate a design, instead of spending valuable time and money finalizing a design that isn’t feasible. These models focus on functionality, before aesthetics, and can be built from a number of processes: 3D printing, machining, CNC-laser cutting, and off the shelf parts.

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Iteration & Testing

Our mechanical engineers quickly verify and validate designs against CAD using highly accurate precision measurement tools, such as our Atos Q 3D scanner, Mark 10 test stands, and Uson leak and flow testers. This verifies that prototypes fall within the intended design parameters, and that the design intent is transferred from the testing phase to production handoff, which helps to avoid costly production delays.

Seamless Link Between Ideation & Production

Regardless of complexity, creating a product requires an understanding of: how it’s used, who uses it, and how it is manufactured and assembled. In the product development process, our team considers design intent, functionality, materials, process, and cost, to provide a seamless link all the way from ideation through production.

Whether we’re working exclusively on generating conceptual solutions or on a multi-year complete product development project, our team will support our clients and ensure their needs are met.

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Mechanical Engineering Services

Our Skillset

Mechanical Engineering Tasks

Concept development to production handoff
Advanced CAD modeling (Solid Works, Creo, and Catia)
Analysis: tolerance stackups, linear and nonlinear structural finite element analysis
Rapid functional prototypes for initial concept validation
Detailed engineering prototypes for final validation
Design for production readiness (DFM/DFA/FMEA)
FEA Validation and Testing
Root cause analysis

Prototyping Processes

Proof-of-Concept and Engineering Prototypes are critical for evaluating designs, testing and proving the design’s functionality. Proof-of-concept prototypes focus on verifying feasibility of a solution. Engineering prototypes are used in the early development of mechanisms to prove or disprove concepts and compare performance.

Both of these prototyping processes allow us to quickly iterate and evaluate a design, instead of spending valuable time and money finalizing a design that isn’t feasible. These models focus on functionality, before aesthetics, and can be built from a number of processes: 3D printing, machining, CNC-laser cutting, and off the shelf parts.

Iteration & Testing

Our mechanical engineers quickly verify and validate designs against CAD using highly accurate precision measurement tools, such as our Atos Q 3D scanner, Mark 10 test stands, and Uson leak and flow testers. This verifies that prototypes fall within the intended design parameters, and that the design intent is transferred from the testing phase to production handoff, which helps to avoid costly production delays.

Seamless Link Between Ideation & Production

Regardless of complexity, creating a product requires an understanding of: how it’s used, who uses it, and how it is manufactured and assembled. In the product development process, our team considers design intent, functionality, materials, process, and cost, to provide a seamless link all the way from ideation through production.

Whether we’re working exclusively on generating conceptual solutions or on a multi-year complete product development project, our team will support our clients and ensure their needs are met.

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