Bespoke Partnership Opportunities

Are you preparing or bidding for an extensive development project? We support you with development planning and project costing and with make-or-buy decisions. Another key element of extensive product development is comprehensive and unambiguous specification of the scope of delivery. Experience has shown that there are numerous traps that need to be identified and considered in bid preparation.

We help you maintain an overview and comply with contractually agreed and normative requirements, including resolving conflicts.

As a systems engineering specialist in aerospace, lightweight construction, mechanical engineering and transport technology our services naturally include design and review of system concepts, structural design, materials and components selection, and system and structural analysis (analytical, FEM) and comprehensive safety analyses (FMEA, FMECA).

Where the technical or organizational context demands integration of external suppliers and service providers, we support you in developing technical specifications and delivery conditions for national and international tenders.

Are you facing a wall of technical specifications and standards right from the start? We’re familiar with this situation, not least as a result of projects in the aviation and space sectors. We help you maintain an overview and comply with contractually agreed and normative requirements, including resolving conflicts.

We continuously review, monitor and coordinate development activities at suppliers and service providers for clients on the basis of contractually agreed technical specifications and norms. We ensure that everything is delivered on time for a perfect final result!

In the course of development, adaptations and changes to parts and interfaces are inevitable. We support your team in integrating changes into the design in a structured and documented manner. Even more important, we help identify any effects on higher and lower level systems and communicate these where necessary, for example by modifying the associated technical specifications.

Numerous statutory provisions today make technical documentation an essential part of the scope of delivery, and the trend is rising. Whether it’s safety analyses, development documents, test reports or verification plans. We are your partners in developing and managing technical documents.

Qualification and verification tests, first article inspections (FAI) and factory acceptance tests (FAT) all require exact preparation and planning. Nothing is worse than having the client and test team present on site and having to cancel the test because of inadequate preparation. In the course of developing technical specifications, we often organize and manage tests for our clients, including verification tests, first article inspections and factory acceptance tests.

Even if questions arise years later, our test documentation provides comprehensive information on the test implementation and results.

Technology development has a special place in the development area. Where the focus in product development is on complying with technical specifications, technology development initially requires fundamental research to build up the knowledge and technological core competencies for subsequent product development. Practical application of these competencies is normally the second step.

The complexity of the tasks requires definition of practical and realistic goals and the fundamental approach before starting actual development. Inadequate definition of the development goals and the individual steps poses the risk of overrunning the project plan and cost schedule. To avoid this, we support with development and maintenance of development specifications, development and prototype planning and the associated costing.

Where the technical or organizational context demands integration of external suppliers and service providers, we support you in developing technical specifications and delivery conditions for national and international tenders.

Are you preparing or bidding for an extensive development project? We support you with development planning and project costing and with make-or-buy decisions.

We’re at home on both sides of the negotiating table – which gives you the edge in complex negotiating situations.

Every successful development project starts with robust development planning and costing. Based on years of experience in various industrial sectors, we support you in planning and costing – we are familiar with standard hourly rates and are particularly aware of the conditions for small series development.

You have a short or medium term opening for your team leader or development manager? We can help you bridge the gap and support you in choosing suitable candidates.

We have a lot of experience with establishing development and R&D departments, inhouse or independent. If necessary, we can also support you with taking over and integrating technical departments into existing structures. We’re there for you – even on site.

You want an independent audit of the services of your development partners and/or suppliers? Trust is good, control is better. We support you with auditing and supplier screening in the development and R&D sector.

Smoothly running product development doesn’t happen by itself. If your development process is more than just a checklist, needs practical design, and understanding and cooperation on the part of all those involved.

If you ever get a feeling that internal developments are not goal-oriented or that material changes are being made on the fly and undocumented, it’s time to act. We support you with our extensive experience in creating and implementing development processes to ISO 9001 and ISO 9100.

We advise you on evaluation and implementation of powerful FEM simulation applications to prepare your product development for virtual prototyping. We also support you with developing the necessary knowhow, e.g. by working with the development team on your projects and in the process passing on our years of experience in systems analysis to your staff.

We’ve been using MSC Nastran for years for static and dynamic analyses (SOL 101, SOL 108), buckling analysis (SOL 105), resonant frequency and modal analysis (SOL 103) and nonlinear analysis (SOL 400) of components and assemblies and for contact and thermal analysis. Our materials database covers numerous reference data on a very wide range of materials, from metals through ceramics to fibre-reinforced plastics.

If you need help on these issues, we’re there for you.

We use MSC Patran and MSC Apex as a pre/postprocessor for modelling complex components and assemblies, e.g. for lightweight construction shell structures and also for comparatively massive thick-walled structures. Patran has an interactive user interface and numerous interfaces for data transfer with the most frequently encountered servers; e.g. MSC Nastran, Marc, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, ANSYS or Pam-Crash.

For our clients and partners we mesh complex parts and assemblies where acceptable processing times require combined meshes of linear volume elements (typically HEX8) with linear shell elements (QUAD4), e.g. for 3D printed parts.