“Really great Mechanical Designs require careful attention to making the right tradeoffs. It’s easy to make a highly rugged design that is either too big, too expensive or can’t be manufactured reliably. The trick is to get the best balance of all these factors, so all are at the appropriate level to satisfy the product requirements. Running a mechanical development project effectively means identifying the best technologies to meet a product’s requirements, assessing them and then mitigating the risks of using such technologies. It’s important to determine how much bleeding edge technology a project can tolerate based on project budget, schedule and risk tolerance. We all want to incorporate next best tech into our products, but cost or schedule may be more important to client. Thankfully, often we can manage to add some really cool ideas into a design, making it truly better.”
If you need integrated mechanical designs that perform both simple and complex movements with the option of integrating IoT capabilities or complex control, our engineers can help. We have worked on a broad cross section of mechanical designs to produce desired results.
Does your product need to operate in the most challenging environments? Our team is well versed in producing comprehensive designs to meet the most demanding specifications. From 6-foot drop tests to IP67 sealing and Intrinsically Safe designs, we have met the challenges of highly rigorous specifications.
Challenging geometries and complex electronic packaging are a routine task for our experienced mechanical engineering team. We are well versed in integrating diverse technologies into tight packages, including wireless connectivity, rechargeable batteries and camera and sensor integrations. We are prepared to turn your vision into tangible parts that are designed for manufacturing repeatability and meet both your functional and cosmetic needs.
We are routinely asked to analyze mechanical systems for our customers. We partner with clients to assess their supplier capabilities for molding and manufacturing. We have engineers on staff to provide both stress/structural and thermal analysis. We are capable of championing test and evaluation plans at our customer’s request.