How many people do you need to change a light bulb? Well, put in the context of new product development, you actually need quite a lot. When that light bulb moment happens or the seed of a new product, innovation, dream or aspiration is sown, that’s when it becomes the turn of a design engineer to make it a reality.
Whether a client requires an outline CAD model or an update to an existing design, companies like ours are tasked with providing a robust design, so that the development project can be taken forward to the next stage. In our experience, to aid a good working relationship, the CAD software and version used must be suitable and compatible with the client’s own software. To this end we maintain three CAD software packages, Creo, Solidworks and Inventor, and keep as many versions, of each one, as we can.
Of course, it is the mission of every design engineer to help their clients’ achieve their goals. Whatever the client needs. This may mean not being involved for the entire product lifecycle, but for part of it, or having varying levels of engagement, such as working for a fixed term period or until a design has been refined and any issues have been ironed out.
Some design engineers have a particular expertise of working in a specific sector, as we do with plastic part development for injection moulding. But we also have a proven ability of being involved in projects originating from a wide range of industries. Whatever pathway is chosen one thing never changes and that’s taking an idea forward to the next stage of the development cycle and making that something, a reality.
