Not only does a product need to delight the end-user but good system design can make the field technicians job much easier while saving time and money during maintenance.
Understanding and designing systems that contain and leverage fluid dynamics.
These prototypes are nearly identical to the final production product and can be used for pre-production testing and independent laboratory verification of safety and product efficacy.
Creating fast mock-ups of a concept to quickly prove out an idea before investing more design or fabrication time.
Using CAD software to simulate how fluids and materials will behave in the real world, before investing in costly prototypes. With simulations we can understand the strength of a part under load and how fluid or air will flow through a pipe or housing.
Designing a system with parts to be used as stand alone devices or pieces of a larger system with future proofing embed in the architecture.
Understanding material properties and how they enhance the functionality of the product and knowing how to source them.
Designing the global scope and interactive components and features of a system.
This is where a beautiful shape transforms into a functioning mechanical system it’s also where Soloosion excels.
Creating a software interface that is intuitive for users but captures the full design is a technical artform. The Soloosion Engineers, with XX years of experience
Design of electronic circuits, including circuit design and analysis, component selection, schematic capture, PCB design, and hands-on testing and troubleshooting. Special strength in microcontroller based embedded systems, switching power supplies, and interface circuitry
When failure is not an option, Engineers must go above and beyond to ensure that products will experience enduring quality throughout its manufacturing life. Soloosion Engineers, with a deep history in the planning and execution of Medical Validations & IQ-OQ-PQ, will partner with you on establishing a sound plan ensuring that proper controls are in place during validation.
Assembling multiple parts together repeatably in a production setting is dependent on the team having the right tools at their disposal. Properly designed assembly fixtures are amongst these tools. Soloosion Engineers understand the intricacies of limiting the degress of freedom during the assembly process without overconstraining them and will help you get the most out of your fixturing needs.
Getting the most out of a transition from Development to Commercialization requires partners that you can trust; partners that can cost-consciously get you from point A to point B on-schedule. Soloosion Engineers act with authority and confidence to support your best interests and get you to the goal line.
Getting the technical development work done is only half the battle. With that scope of work completed, it is critical to ensure a proper handoff from Engineering to Manufacturing or Operations. This handoff is typically made in the form of a documentation / design transfer. Soloosion Engineers will support the creation of Design History Files, Device Master Records, and Design Transfer docuemntation to ensure an efficient and effective transition from Development to Commercialization.
A medical devices integrity is only as good as its packaging; if its primary package is not appropriately designed and tested during Development, there will undoubtedly be issues during the Commercialization phase that will interfere with the success of the product in the market. Soloosion Engineers will ensure that your primary package, whether a thermoformed blister, Tyvek pouch or otherwise, is designed according to industy best-practice, a testing protocol is established, and that it is propoerly tested.
A successful launch can hinge upon the relationships you have within your supply chain. To establish these relationships, designers need to source, visit, and vet out potential supply partners to assess their quality systems and capabilities. Soloosion Engineers have a background of being suppliers themselves, and will help you ask the right questions to find the best supply partners for the job.
A company's products are an extension of its brand image; as such, these products should communicate with their users in the language that the brand seeks to create. Whether designing an addition to an established brand or developing a brand-defining product, Soloosion Engineers understand the importance of designs speaking to your customers in a familiar way while meeting their unique needs. We strive to develop a product that fully represents our client's desire to make the best solution for their customers.
To help visualize concepts, Soloosion Engineers create provoking visuals throughout the early stages of the development process to market an idea and communicate its features to stakeholders and users.
Mirroring the physical requirements of a product to its human factors can mean the difference between life and death. The Soloosion Engineers will shape your designs with ergonomic best-practices, including the performance of Reach & Range analysis of target users. We understand that the comfort and safety of users is paramount, and will verify our designs by performing ergonomic studies, ensuring .
Actions performed through time are what comprises a story. Soloosion Engineers leverage user research and real-world expertise to map user workflows and demonstrate how a product and its features are properly used. While often overlooked, this can include production and assembly steps, enabling more efficient production procedures.
At Soloosion, we believe that a design should start with a focus on the end users' needs; those needs in-turn should shape the product into an elegant user experience that is not only intuitive but delightful. The Soloosion Engineers will develop not only a flawlessly functioning product, but also craft an experience that users will understand, enjoy and remember.
A key project management stratgey in any project is identifying and managing project risks. This means cataloging foreseeable risks, assigning each risk a Risk Priority Number (RPN) which is a numerical calculation of its magnitude, and creating mitigaiton strategies to bring risks down to a more manageable or acceptable level. The Soloosion Enigneers will support you in ensuring the riskiest elements of the project are identified and mitigated.
With a deep history in Product Development, the Soloosion Engineers have the expereience necessary to assemble budgets for development time and capital investments that will be necessary to bring the project through to fruition.
The Soloosion Engineers create a Gantt chart from the task list with assigned resources, and begin to identify the Critical Path; the series of interrelated tasks that drive the legth of the project. From there, they can begin reassigning tasks and reassessing the relationships between the tasks in order to remove bottlenecks and compress the schedule as much as possible, saving our clients time and cost to get to market.
With an exhaustive list of tasks available, the Soloosion Engineers begin assigning tasks to the members of the team that are best suited for those activities.
The Soloosion Engineers review the Key Project Milestones and begin creating lists of tasks that will serve to achieve each milestone.
Project Milestones are the waypoint markers along the trail of product development. The Soloosion Engineers will work closely with you to identify what the key milestones are for your project; these markers will drive the project management structure.
Before developing a product, one must have a deep understanding of who their potential customers are, what their buying habits are, and where their competition is strongest and weakest. Soloosion Engineers will support you in developing the market landscape for the product that you envision developing.
Understanding the patent landscape before beginning the development process is valueable, not only for understanding what avenues a design can and cannot follow, but also in generating inspiration and learning from what other experts have done in the past. The Soloosion Engineers will ensure that the design path that is chosen is unencumbered by existing intellectual property and that any novel design concepts are captured and patented where appropriate.
Design projects can have many stakeholders, each of which may have their own vision of what capabilities must be included in the product. To capture the needs of all of these stakeholders, Soloosion Engineers will work with you and your team to create a Product Requirement Document which will communicate what you are creating, who it is for, how it benefits the end user, and how the user will interact with it.
Design of printed circuit boards (external suppliers for fabrication). Able to hand assemble small quantities in very short times and able to coordinate automated production (with external suppliers) for larger quantities
Able to assemble working prototype hardware from off the shelf components in order to validate a concept and determine detailed functional requirements before committing to the expense of a printed circuit board design
When our clients need low volumes of production-level quality pieces but do not have the budet or schedule to build a full injection mold base, the Soloosion Engineers will support their clients in developing silicone molds from a 3D printed master pattern of the part design.
A tried and true prototyping technology, CNC machining can provide quick-turn functional prototypes for testing and analysis. The Solosion Engineers can support you by owning this process and its details so that you don't need to.
When 3D printing a component that must be rugged enough to withstand functional or semi-functional testing, the Soloosion Engineers will 3D print your designs using Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM).
When verifying part designs that contain fine features that require high-resolution prototyping, the Soloosion Engineers will 3D print your designs using Stereo Lithography (SLA).
Development of control firmware for small programmable logic devices, such as CPLD's and FPGA's
Developing systems for movement and manipulation of fluids, including electronic controls of pumps, valves, flow meters, pressure sensors, heaters, etc.
Creating a software interface that is intuitive for users but captures the full design is a technical artform. The Soloosion Engineers, with XX years of experience
System design and control implementation for motorized systems. Specification of motors and drive components. Specification and design of motor controllers and integration of off the shelf motor controllers
Design and programming of process control equipment using programmable logic controllers and human machine interfaces, programmed using ladder logic
Architecture and detailed design of control systems for electro-mechanical systems, including mechanical analysis, control algorithm design, and software development
Architecture, development, and deployment of software targeted at control systems for electronic devices. Particular emphasis on bare metal and real time operating system development
Design of electronic circuits, including circuit design and analysis, component selection, schematic capture, PCB design, and hands-on testing and troubleshooting. Special strength in microcontroller based embedded systems, switching power supplies, and interface circuitry
Ensuring that assembled components can mate together in best- and worst-case scenarios is something every client seeks. The Soloosion Engineers will analyze Least Material Conditions (LMCs) and Maximum Material Conditions (MMCs) of the mating components and will design part tolerance that maintain the intended fit interface between the parts.
When finalizing an injection molded part design, the Engineer must begin to consider the risks of properly designing and building the mold. This includes identifying what gating strategy to employ, and in what location to place the gates. While some Engineers might rely on their experience alone, the Soloosion Engineers rely not only on their experience but on plastic flow simulation as well; this ensures that they properly optimze gate size and placement and identify risks that may have gone otherwise unnoticed during a design review.
Properly designing a plastic injection molded part requires a set of design knowledge that can only be gained through direct experience and training. With over 45 years of combined injection molding expertise, the Soloosion Engineers will keep your functional needs intact while optimizing your design for injection molding in creative ways to reduce risk and complexity.
A developed design is only marginally useful if it is not able to be manufactured at scale. Our clients rely on the expertise of the Soloosion Engineers to ensure their designs are manufacturable using appropriate manufacturing technologies, not only for developmental testing, but more importantly for high-volume manufacturing and assembly.
Vetting out uncertainty in a design before it is fully manufactured saves our clients time, dollars, and headache during development. The Soloosion Engineers integrate advanced computational analysess in the form of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to investigate risks related to linear and non-linear applied loads, vibration and dynamics, thermal distribution, and computational fluid dynamics.
Through the use of SolidWorks 3D Modeling software and the integration of Enterprise PDM for design control & management, the Soloosion Engineers create the mechanical details of your vision in 3D space.
Whether we are designing an addition to an established brand or developing a brand-defining first product, we believe physical quality and understanding the consumer needs is paramount. We strive to develop a product that fully represents our client's desire to make the best solution for their customers.
We creating provoking visuals throughtout the development process to market an idea or precisely visualize a product's details and communicate its features.
Understanding the physical requirements of a product is important and mirroring those requirement to human factors can sometimes mean the difference between life and death. We guide our designs with ergonomic best practices utilizing known data as well as Reach & Range analysis of target users. We verify our designs by performing ergonomic studies, ensuring the comfort and safety of users.
Actions through time create a story. We leverage user research and observations to map user flows and demonstrate how a product and its features are used. While often overlooked, this can include production and assembly steps, enabling more efficiant production procedures.
We research to understand target end-users, and create experience schemes that describe each step a user takes. This allows us to capture user needs and develop intuitive solutions that make an experience easily understood and memorable.
Our Product Design perspective starts at the end user and shapes the product to elegantly provide an experience that is not only intuitive but delightful. Our team not only works to provide flawlessly functioning products but experiences that users easily understand, enjoy and remember.