Develop your product without expanding your engineering team
We are a ready-made team of product development specialists that helps ambitious businesses create and enhance technology-enabled products.
Our clients range from global brands, such as Bosch and Schlumberger, to start-ups that you haven’t heard of yet.
Expertise
Our team brings expertise in user-experience design, industrial and mechanical design, electronic engineering, and software development.
Product formats range from super-compact wearables, through hand-held devices to large-format products. The team has designed for harsh environments (up to IP67) and explosive environments (for ATEX certification).
Electronics disciplines include high speed digital (including MCU, CPU, DSP and FPGA), low-noise analog, and wireless systems. Software expertise includes embedded software for very lightweight systems, Linux, mobile and cloud systems.
Process
This team has taken hundreds of products through the complete development process. Our engagement spans earliest requirements capture, via feasibility, prototyping, design verification and certification through to manufacturing introduction, and always with a focus on identifying and reducing technical and commercial risks at the earliest opportunity.
Whether we start with a formal procurement specification or a concept sketched out on the proverbial napkin, a typical project will include the following steps:
Requirements capture
Identify functional and non-functional requirements. Identify commercial objectives. Understand the proposition: what value is delivered to whom and how?
Feasibility assessment
Design calculations, simulations and practical experiments to assess the viability of key performance parameters, with the aim of retiring technical risks.
Proof of concept
Early ‘lash-ups’ of key elements of the product or proposition. To engage internal and external stakeholders and to test facets of the product or proposition on end-users with the aim of retiring commercial risks.
High-level design
Initial consideration of the complete design, encompassing UX, industrial, mechanical, electronic and software strands, working through the set of trade-offs to ensure that the chosen design approach will meet both technical and commercial objectives.
Delivers a plan for the entire development, including engineering, test, design verification and manufacturing.
Detailed Design
Design and implementation of each subsystem.
Initial prototypes
First functional integration of detailed mechanical, electronic and software subsystems. Functionality may be incomplete and implementation may not be optimised, but goal is to gain early confidence in areas still deemed to present a technical risk. Practical evaluation of design, initial environmental, compliance and certification testing.
Pre-production prototypes
Complete, fully-functional and properly-tooled products, albeit manufactured in small numbers. Subjected to complete design verification, environmental, compliance and certification testing. Manufacturing test and device provisioning readiness.
Transfer to manufacture
Complete manufacturing pack and technical construction file. Knowledge transfer, formal compliance testing and ongoing manufacturing support.
