Services What we do
We are set up to run a whole program, but we are just as often brought in for one piece of it: a mechanical redesign, a board that will not pass EMC, a usability study before submission. Below is the full list. Start wherever the problem is.
A Capabilities
Before anything is drawn we want to know who will use it, what they do today, what it has to cost, and what could kill it. Sometimes the right output of this phase is a recommendation not to proceed. We would rather tell you that in week four than in month fourteen.
Form, proportion, material, colour and finish, worked out with the engineers who have to make it real. We sketch, we foam, we print, we sit the model on a desk for a week and see how it wears. The goal is a product that looks like it belongs to your company and can be moulded at the number you need.
Enclosures, mechanisms, seals, fasteners, thermal paths and the tolerance stacks that decide whether the lid closes on unit ten thousand. We design for the process from the first CAD file: injection moulding, die casting, sheet metal, machining, or whatever the volume calls for.
Architecture, schematic capture, layout, and bring-up on our own bench. Power budgets that hold up in the field, sensing chains with the noise floor you actually need, wireless that passes the first time. We run pre-compliance in-house so the certification lab is a formality, not a discovery.
From bare-metal drivers to embedded Linux, with the same habits throughout: version control from day one, automated tests on real hardware, and an update path that will still work in five years. We write the code your team will maintain, so it is written to be read.
Use-related risk is cheapest to fix on a foam model and most expensive to fix after a 510(k) review. We run task analysis and formative studies early, iterate the design on what we see, and plan the summative so it validates rather than surprises. Reports are written to IEC 62366-1 and FDA guidance.
An in-house shop for the quick loops: printers, a small CNC, a reflow oven, an environmental chamber and the usual bench. Trusted partners for cast urethane, soft tooling and short-run PCBA. Every prototype answers a specific question, and every test has a written plan and a report you can hand to an auditor.
The part most firms are weakest at, and the part where a program is won or lost. We select vendors, review tooling, run pilot builds on the real line and stay through first production. What you hold at the end is a documentation package a contract manufacturer can run without calling us.
B How an engagement runs
Each phase is quoted on its own. You see the deliverables and price before it starts, and you can stop between phases with everything produced so far in your hands. Weekly reviews, a shared risk register, and no surprises in the invoice.
Typically four to eight weeks. Ends with a requirements document, a risk register and a recommendation.
Eight to twelve weeks. Ends with a chosen architecture, working breadboards, an appearance model and a costed program plan.
Three to nine months depending on scope. Rounds of build and test, each retiring named risks. Ends with a verified design.
Three to six months. Ends when production units pass the same tests the prototypes did and your team can run the line without us.
C Quality and documentation
For regulated products we run design controls from the first phase: design inputs, reviews, verification and validation, traceability, and a design history file that is complete the day the design is frozen. We work inside your quality system or bring our procedures with us.
For everything else we keep the same habits with less ceremony. A requirements list that is actually maintained. Test reports with the raw data attached. A bill of materials with second sources noted. A changelog. It costs very little to do this as you go and a great deal to reconstruct it afterwards.
D Next step