Mechanical Design
Startup with a breakthrough innovation in need of mechanical design services so you can take your product to market?
Established product portfolio, looking for a mechanical design consultancy to whom you can outsource all or part of the product development process?
Whatever your mechanical design challenge, our talented team of mechanical engineers in Cambridge can help.
Why use a mechanical design service?
There are two common reasons:
Answer key questions about the product design before it is released for manufacture, through prototyping, testing, and cost estimation.
Add capacity or capability. For example, you may not have experience of designing for injection moulding you may need to outsource to a mechanical design consultancy like us.
What’s our approach to mechanical design?
As an established mechanical engineering company, we have years of experience in taking blue sky concepts and actually making them happen. The breadth and depth of our expertise in high and low-volume production, coupled with clear workflow processes and an instinct for collaboration, enable us to steer you through the whole process.
Our mechanical design team works alongside our specialists in electronic design and industrial design in our Cambridge HQ. We are continually reviewing the challenges and trade-offs that need to be made, so any product development obstacles are quickly moved out of the way and we can keep up momentum in getting the product to market.
We have a large network of suppliers in the UK and Asia, so we can source the appropriate components and materials as part of the proof of concept, prototyping and testing stages of product mechanical design.
Our mechanical design services include
- Initial system layouts and internal/mechanical architecture
- Concept mechanical design and problem solving
- Initial proof of concept modelmaking
- Detail mechanical design of components, sub-assemblies and a full product general arrangement, tolerance analysis
- CAD work and simulation
- Injection-moulding design, die-cast design, CNC design, sheet metal design and design for prototype
- Supplier selection for prototypes and production
- Full working prototype and initial sample review (FAI, ISIR, initial assembly analysis)
- Material and process selection
- Design for manufacture (DFM) review
- Release for manufacture (3D data, 2D exports, texture documents, manufacturing and assembly documents)
- Product testing (drop & ingress)
- Product approvals support, production support and product lifecycle support
- Design failure mode and effect analysis (DFMEA) review