New product development services include:
ERGONOMICS:
- Analysis of human / product interaction
- Consumer psychographic research
- Time and motion studies
- Cognitive studies for display / control layout
- Anthropometric comparisons of different user populations
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN:
- Creative alternatives for product appearance
- Brand identity development
- Rearrangement of components for improved package shape
- Aesthetics
- Exterior product appearance studies
- Configuration studies
- New product concepts
- Product family concepts
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING:
- Mechanism design
- Enclosure design
- CAD Analysis of:
- Stress
- Vibration
- Heat transfer
- Material/process selection
- Design for mass-production:
- Plastics
- Metals
- Assemblies
- Mechanical layout studies to conform
for agency compliance, function, reliability testing
and/or cost reduction
- Enclosure design for difficult requirements such
as high heat dissipation, severe vibration and/or
impact, EMI/RFI shielding and ESD protection.
- Part designs for mass production in plastics,
formings, castings.
- Documentation: part drawings (ANSI Y-14)
3-D MODELS AND PROTOTYPES:
- Quick study models (cardboard, styrofoam, etc.)
- Appearance models (photographic quality)
- Functional and semi-functional models
- Prototypes: rapid turn around, CNC and Stereolithographic parts
- Master patterns
- Pilot run, sample units
ELECTRONIC DESIGN SERVICES:
- Electronic Engineering
- PC board Layout
- PC board Prototyping
- Electronic Test Fixture Design
- Agency Compliance Testing