Hall Design has developed more than 600 products for major companies throughout the world, including Motorola, IBM, Bausch & Lomb, Baxter, Apple Computer, Scott Paper, Pioneer, Sony, 3Com, 3M Corporation, Ricoh, and Fujitsu, as well as dozens of small and mid-sized companies.

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

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