Our relationship usually starts with the customer's needs or ideas.

After that, many processes start simultaneously. Concurrent engineering enables all disciplines to work on the same project at the same time, through networking between design engineering, manufacturing engineering, manufacturing, the foundry, QC and the Research and Development Center.

This early linkage in the product development stage creates a better product, faster and less expensively.

Our leading-edge engineering capabilities are geared to offer you volumes of precise information, upfront, before the project is started.

Finite-element analysis (FEA) can verify design integrity and evaluate design alternatives, utilizing 1,000 simultaneous comparison reactions in less than two minutes. With FEA, we can show the entire working of an assembly before it is built.

In addition, we're capable of designing in solids. We can present 3-D modeling of a part, then tell you the weight, and all of the physicals. We can then produce a finite-element analysis that covers all of the loads and forces, and demonstrates all stress areas, temperature distribution, fluid flow, and pressure distribution.

This lessens your need for expensive prototyping and eliminates upfront expenditures on tooling until design optimization is achieved. Plus, we can submit a precise report on the optimum shape and configuration of that part.

We also provide min/max studies on part tolerances and interferences. And we offer failure mode effects analyses (FMEA's), which list each component in an assembly, then detail every potential problem, as well as every possible step to avoid these potential problems. And they provide risk versus value information.

Engineering and design revisions are conveyed automatically throughout the company. New drawings, new tolerance information, etc., move simultaneously through every department.

And all analysis information is stored and backed-up in our mainframe for future studies.

What does it all mean to you? An excellent cooperative engineering relationship. A compressed timeline -- from drawings to on-line production. Greatly reduced pre-production costs. Problems are recognized and eliminated earlier. Bottom line -- a better product, faster.

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