Engineering Design involves designing scalable products that meet customer requirements.
It uses a structured approach to solving problems, typically consisting of following steps:
- Stating the problem and gathering requirements
- Defining product requirements
- Developing prototypes
- Testing and evaluating prototypes against the product requirement
- Developing stable and robust manufacturing processes
- Evaluating its performance
This systematic method helps engineers develop effective solutions that meet customer requirements by combining creativity, experience, and technical knowledge.
Capability overview
- Design / redesign for Manufacturing (DFM): Expertise in designing optimal products for additive, composite, and precision manufacturing processes and workflows
- Computer aided engineering (CAE): Simulation and analysis-based methods to perform product design and development through functional geometry optimisation informed by the rules of physics
- Scaled or Functional Prototypes: Utilising AMRF capabilities to create free-from, representative models for conceptualisation and design iteration at true scale.
- Tooling and Fixture Design: Increasing productivity through design of interfaces between operator-part or part-machine
- Technical Drawing Creation: Create technical drawings per AS1100 or ASME Y14.5 for engineered parts and assemblies
What the AMRF can offer
- End to end, design to inspection: In-house access to rapid manufacturing conceptualisation, testing, post-processing, production automation, inspection and qualification
- Multidisciplinary expertise: Incorporating design techniques from a diverse variety of highly regulated industries for first-time-right design
- Access to advanced design suites: Access to both expertise and technology in design, modelling, computational and simulation methodologies that may not be economical in all situations
- Parallel development: Executing design and process trades from a wholistic, total process viewpoint to maximise end to end productivity
Our specialised engineering design capabilities
Design development services are complementary to pushing the limits of manufacturing outcomes across a vast number of core manufacturing technologies onsite at the AMRF and within broader industry.
The design and applications engineering team is key in establishing project specifications, maintaining schedules and budget, and delivering novel solutions for a diverse range of applications and technologies.
Access to our multi-disciplinary manufacturing design team provides a competitive advantage when coupled with our industry leading technology portfolio. Rapidly iterating on part geometries across manufacturing technologies, with inline metrology and traceability, delivers optimal solutions for your objective.
In-house design capabilities extend into the manufacturing space through tooling, jigs, and fixtures to develop manufacturing process design. The AMRF is also an authority in GD&T and can help to decipher, create, or review technical drawings for best practice in manufacture or metrology applications.
The benefits of accessing these services include:
- access to a range of expertise and technology to simulate and analyse challenging engineering applications
- productivity, reliability, and precision improvements for a range of processes
- future-proof design intent to permit rapid uptake of emerging manufacturing technologies such as automation
- fully digitized technical data provided for rapid iteration and maximum traceability
How could design development services help your business?
The AMRF will become a specific applied learning environment for industry design talent. It will enable the fast-tracking of learning curves that must be considered and overcome for successful product design in advanced manufacturing materials and processes.
Engaging with the AMRF design team provides you with opportunities to leverage the application of engineering design across multiple manufacturing touch points.
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