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Engineering consultancy in Robust Design
On this page, you will find information about our mechanical engineering consulting services - which specializes in Robust Design.
How to work with us?
Robust Design services to boost profit in product development
Turning designs green - one way or the other.
Robust Design drives real sustainability gains – real reductions of scrap and raw material usage – enabling more sustainable materials.
We color our Robust Design features green in CAD. The green surfaces result in improvements for increased product performance, reliability/quality and drive cost reductions.
Examples of improvement areas:
Typical results
Benefits by applying Robust Design
Examples: advantages of Robust Design
ADVANTAGES
GREENER
Examples of advantage areas and potentials
ENABLEMENT OF GREEN MATERIALS
- Replacement of virgin materials with recycled alternatives or bioplastics
50-100%
UPCYCLING & CIRCULAR DESIGN
- Improving ability for service, spare parts, and disassembly
REDUCTION OF MATERIAL CONSUMPTION
- Over-engineering
- Geometry optimization
- Scrap reduction in production
and assembly
5-80%
DOWNSTREAM ACTIVITIES
- Lower energy consumption of products
- Increase product lifetime
5-20%
GREEN PART PRODUCTION
CO2 reductions by production changes or production efficiency gains
5-30%
ADVANTAGES
SIMPLER
Examples of advantage areas and potentials
COMPLEXITY REDUCTION
- Reduction of the number of tolerances
- Reduction of tolerance levels
- Reduction of functional surface areas
- Reduction of system dependencies
- Simplified assembly
- Optimization and standardization of interfaces & modules
- Commonalization – standardization across products and platforms
COST REDUCTION
- Reduction of scrap & customer complaint rates / recalls
- Enablement of low-cost suppliers
- Enablement of low-cost production processes
- Volume consolidation / modularization
- Reduction of development time
- Reduction of ramp-up time / iterations
- Reduction of time used in assembly (assembly/automation improvements by design)
- Less CAPEX investments – low-cost equipment & tools
More about cost reductions.
5-30%
ADVANTAGES
FASTER
Examples of advantage areas and potentials
REDUCTION OF DEVELOPMENT TIME
- Reduction of development timeline & resources by;
- Systematic work with 8 leading indicators for the robustness of a mechanical design
- Design guides/best practices
- Robust Design productivity tools/software
- People – talent development
10-50%
REDUCTION OF RAMP-UP TIME
- Reduction of engineering detours
- Reduction of tooling iteration
- Reduction of noise factors (for assembly, equipment, and product)
10-50%
BETTER PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE
- Enablement of faster assembly times
- Enablement of optimized automation levels
5-50%
IMPROVED TIME-TO-QUALITY
- Reduction of recalls
- Reduction of customer complaints/quality issues
- Reduction of change requests
More about time-to-quality
10-50%
ADVANTAGES
SMARTER
Examples of advantage areas and potentials
INCREASED PRODUCT PERFORMANCE
- Increased energy efficiency
- Increased product lifetime
- Increased weight performance
5-50%
INCREASED PERCEIVED QUALITY
- Reduced backlash
- Improved accuracy
- Improved aesthetics/split lines
- Improved consistency across products
5-50%
NEW LEAPS OF INNOVATION
- New patents
- Radical optimization of main product functions
- Optimization across product-man-machine
- Data driven product development
INTRODUCTION OF NEW FEATURES
- Improved success rate of new product platform dev.
- Improved success rate of new technology introduction
- Improved success rate of new features/modules
SERVICES
RD8 services for R&D excellence powered by Robust Design
Explore our Robust Design services below
SERVICE
New product development
Design from scratch. We develop products using our unique Robust Design methods & tools - ensuring the maximum balance between new features and cost.
SERVICE
Robust engineering system
Robust design driven R&D! Empower your organization and development departments to maximize value creation.
SERVICE
Product redesign
We redesign products to maximize profit by achieving greener products with improved performance, and less complexity (lower cost).
SERVICE
Engineering talent development
Robust Design training programs for individuals and organizations via classes and online learning. Practice through project work and certification with support from robust design consultants.
SERVICE
Product reviews
We review mechanical product designs by unique objective metrics. Identify unrevealed potentials and get to know how you can improve the robustness of a given product to maximize profit
SERVICE
Green product development
We color our robust design features green in CAD. The green surfaces result in improvements for increased product performance and reliability PLUS real sustainability gains – reductions of scrap, raw material usage, energy, and enablement of sustainable materials - and play a central role in the targeting scope 1, 2, and 3 of the greenhouse gas protocol.
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