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.
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 and 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 and 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.
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.
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 and 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 and 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.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROJECTS
Engineering Specialties
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING
CONCEPT ENGINEERING
MECHANISM DEVELOPMENT
ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
TESTING & ANALYSIS
MEDICAL PRODUCT ENGINEERING
