Design
 
 

Design

  
 

As Mechanical engineers, we have to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in materials, the latest developments technology.

Choosing the right material.

New materials can completely change a product:
Increased Strength, Improved Durability, Flexibility, A Reduction in Weight.

Would the design benefit from combining a number of different materials, using the individual properties of each of them? We need to consider which materials work well together and which don’t. We need to consider what finishes are available? Would coating the base material allow us to use it differently?

All of these can change the design of a product, its size, its weight and how it is manufactured.

Designing for manufacture

We need to ensure the design is practical to make, defining tolerances that work, that don’t cost too much or take to long to achieve.

We need to minimise costs, minimise waste, keeping the unit cost of production as low as possible.

Ensuring the design is practical

We also need to bear in mind how your plant will be used, how it will be maintained. Good design takes into account usability (how it will be used) and maintainability. You don’t want to have to take a machine to bits just to tighten a single bolt that you can see but you just cant get a spanner to it.

  
     
     
 

Helping our clients to better design, to better deliver their projects. We help them to turn concepts into reality.

Keeping you up-to-date with the latest methods and materials:

  
 
       
 
New Concepts: Taking your "blue-sky" ideas and creating a design that will really work.
  
 
Innovation: Helping you take existing designs forward, adding feature and function, expanding their capabilities.  
 
Value Engineering: Looking for ways to reduce the costs of a product while maintaining its form and function.  
 
Reverse Engineering: Taking existing product or plant and producing up-to-date drawings and models.
  
     
 

We can provide you with a fresh pair of eyes, helping you to see around the problem. Maybe there’s a better way of making your product now? Maybe there’s an alternative material you could use?

We can help you to design it better, we can help you to manufacture it better.We understand your problems, we know what is required to produce designs that work.