Engineering Capabilities

Once the features have been established, we translate these into a technical requirements specification for the design stage.

We will assist you with this specification, taking into account:

• Power consumption
• Size
• Weight
• Mechanical construction
• Environmental tolerance
• Ingress protection
• Accuracy
• Safety and immunity requirements
• EMC requirements and testing standards

We compare competing technologies and platforms from our leading suppliers to establish the optimal choice for the longevity of your design.

Our assessment will look at power, speed, cost, licensing terms, safety certifications and approvals testing, manufacturing support, performance, and product lifetime requirements, as appropriate.

Inelco Hunter’s experience in many different markets (Medical, Transportation, Industrial, Instrumentation, Fire & Security, Military, Avionics, etc.) enables us to leverage our expertise across a number of industry verticals. Working with our world-class suppliers we will evaluate emerging technologies, assessing their potential for your application and creating a winning market differentiator for you and your customers.

All new product developments have some risks attached.

Part of our Feasibility Research service seeks to identify and quantify these and, if necessary, to find ways to mitigate them. Examples of risks to product development could be:

• Immaturity of core technologies
• Lack of third party or manufacturer support
• Component supply or pricing issues
• Design limitations due to technology restrictions

The risks and solutions unearthed will be documented so that you can take account of them when making your commercial and timescale plans.

Before a project is commercially sanctioned, you will want to know not only the development costs but also the expected unit costs. To this end, budgetary costs are calculated based on preliminary discussions, and initial quotations provided for discussion and review.

Once the feasibility study is complete, we offer a development proposal to establish full costs and milestones required to be met. Our Engineering can provide

• 2D / 3D design and drawings
• Costs and milestone estimates
• First prototypes and initial testing
• Golden samples
• Type approval and initial testing
• Pre-production / Pilot batch production
• Test certification and approvals available (EMC, IEC, BS, VDE etc)
• Production start and production ramp-up planning
• Full project planning using MSP

We offer full project plan implementation, allowing customers to work intuitively and efficiently directly with our engineering team, ensuring clear and open communication, engineer to engineer, throughout your product design project.