OUR SERVICES

Understand

Let us help you understand your true customer needs through observation, customer interviews, focus groups, research…

Ideation

Time to get creative. Different people, different mindsets, a whiteboard, sticky notes, colorful markers, fidget toys, and NO RULES!!!

Proof of Concept

Choose top concepts and create a quick prototype to prove out the concept. Duct tape allowed 🙂

Develop

Detailed 3D models, simulations like FEA/CFD, detailed prints, prototype, test, rinse and repeat until design is locked down and testing is complete.

Launch

It’s time to roll. Vendor selection is completed, tooling is finalized, pilot builds, transfer to manufacturing, stock builds, marketing material, sales team training. Time to celebrate!!!

Sustaining

Keep production rolling, ensure a quality product, root cause any issues, and solve problems.

LIST OF ALL SERVICES WE OFFER

Electrical and Software Engineering

  • Embedded, desktop and server systems
  • Motion control
  • Battery operated devices
  • Automated test systems
  • SMT soldering and PCB repairs
  • Wireless communications
  • Electro-optical
  • EMC compliance
  • Software and systems architecture
  • GUI Implementation
  • IOS and Android
  • Windows (XP, Embedded, CE), Linux, QNX, and many other RTOS systems
  • Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE, wifi (802.11) and cellular
  • Printed Circuit Board Design

Strategy and Planning

  • Product strategy
  • Business case
  • Business modelling and forecasting
  • Competitive analysis
  • Regulatory pathway
  • Market expansion products
  • Business strategy

All Engineering

  • Brainstorming
  • Ideation
  • Technical problem solving
  • Iterative prototype development and testing
  • Performance optimization
  • Risk analysis using design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and other methods.
  • Performance testing / development of acceptance test protocols
  • Design documentation including drawings, product specs, and test specs
  • Manufacturing coordination / planning
  • Engineering, verification, and validation testing
  • GMP and GLP testing capabilities
  • Mechanical load testing, fatigue testing, impact testing, biocompatibility, UV, drop testing, packaging, etc.
  • Failure analysis
  • Reverse engineering
  • Emerging technology integration
  • Experiential prototyping
  • Design controls and revision control
  • Part and item cost reduction innovation
  • Cost optimization
  • Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
  • Design for Assembly (DFA)

Manufacturing Resources

  • Local expertise
  • Global suppliers and vendors

Sustaining

  • Repair
  • Refurbishment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Cost reductions
  • Quality engineering
  • Capital project management
  • Production automation

Intellectual Property

  • Patent strategy
  • Patent portfolio review
  • Competitive patent landscape and analysis
  • Patent evaluation and strengthening
  • Competitive patent review and design around
  • Freedom to operate

Industrial Design

  • Artistic hand sketches
  • Aesthetic and form development
  • Product-brand alignment
  • Usability, ergonomics, and human factors
  • Physical interface design
  • Feature development
  • Idea generation
  • Concept design
  • Sketch to 3D
  • Presentation images
  • Animations
  • Photo quality renderings
  • User interface design
  • Form studies
  • Virtual and physical modeling
  • Story boarding
  • Photorealistic renderings
  • Design thinking

Rapid Prototyping

  • Photorealistic 3D Renderings
  • Human Factor study models
  • Show-ready scaled prototype models
  • Stereolithography (SLA)
  • Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) including biocompatible materials
  • Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
  • Fully painted (with logos) functional models
  • CNC machined prototypes
  • RTV / urethane castings (plastic parts with silicone or soft tooling)
  • Aluminum quick turn tooling for plastic parts
  • Vacuum molded prototypes
  • Carbon fiber – CNC and molded parts
  • Prototypes using various processes like sheet metal brakes, water jet, laser jet, welding, tubing and bending, and any other imaginable quick turn process
  • Renboard – hand sculpted or CNC prototypes

Project Management

  • Project management from napkin sketch, through launch, and sustaining
  • Project planning and resource management
  • GANTT chart
  • Agile Product Development
  • Metrics and reporting

Medical Device Development

  • Regulated product development
  • Design controls
  • Regulatory strategy
  • GMP and GLP testing capabilities
  • Implantables

Systems Engineering

  • Systems architecture
  • Requirements engineering
  • System safety analysis
  • Systems simulation
  • Biocompatibility strategy and testing

Manufacturing Engineering

  • Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
  • Design for Assembly (DFA)
  • Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
  • Model and prototype assembly
  • Process validations
  • Process capability studies
  • Production automation
  • Pilot manufacturing
  • Low, medium, and high volume device manufacturing
  • Failure analysis
  • Tooling and manufacturing liaison
  • Six Sigma
  • Lean manufacturing and 5S
  • Supplier integration
  • Transfer to manufacturing

Mechanical Engineering

  • Electromechanical engineering
  • Mechanism development
  • Powertrain / drivetrain engineering
  • Motion control
  • Battery powered devices
  • Design for tubing, welding, sheet metal, stamping, casting, plastic molding, blow molding, extruded, machined parts, formed parts, and the list goes on…
  • Prototype testing and debugging
  • Drop, shock and ingress protection
  • Complex surface geometry development
  • EMI and ESD shielding
  • Manufacturing support – alpha & beta through production
  • Design for six sigma
  • Enclosures
  • Sterile and non-sterile packaging
  • Fluid handling and pumps
  • Sterile single use devices and disposable accessories development
  • Advanced computer aided design (CAD)
  • Dimensional and tolerance analysis
  • Finite element analysis (FEA)
  • Computational fluid dynamics analysis (CFD)
  • 3D modeling
  • 2D drawings
  • Bill of Materials (BOM)
  • Assembly
  • Reverse engineering
  • Part optimization / cost reduction
  • Component sourcing – off the shelf

User Centered Research / Human Factors

  • User-centered research
  • User-centered design
  • Ethnographic research
  • Consumer insights
  • Product category and technology application ideation
  • New feature design and development
  • Workflow evaluation and task analysis
  • In-depth interview and narrative tours
  • Web based survey and data collection
  • Understand user needs
  • Translate user needs into design guidelines
  • Human Factors Engineering (HFE) and usability
  • Opportunity identification and definition
  • Heuristic evaluations
  • Empathic design
  • Brand category development and strategy