Engineering Design
We provide a comprehensive design service, delivering specific solutions as well as offering turn-key design packages, from concept to detailed design and drafting. Utilising our close partnership with major manufacturing companies we also offer a full design and make service.
Concept Design
Drawing on our vast design experience, our team offers creative and innovative concept solutions. Visual representation and preliminary analysis is used to develop and communicate concepts giving our clients confidence that deliverables can be achieved.
Detail Design
Our engineers specialise in the design of complex and cutting-edge products using 3D CAD modelling. We develop detailed designs fit for manufacture, with designers working closely with analysts and manufacturers alike to ensure optimal solutions are found.
Drafting
We produce manufacturing and scheme-level GA drawings to a number of standards, with our designers skilled in the use of GD&T, limits and fits and composite standards. All drawings are rigorously checked by our experienced drawing verifiers.
Our Capabilities
Design
- 3D CAD design
- 3D CAD rapid concepting
- Complex surface modelling
- Metallic & composite structures
- Lightweight structures & mechanisms
- Highly loaded mechanical equipment
- Hot rig design (high temp alloys)
- Pressure systems design to code
- Structural optimisation
- Highly regulated ‘design to code’
Manufacturing Support
- Detailed manufacturing drawings
- Design substantiation reports
- Operations & maintenance manuals
- Support to concurrent engineering
- On-site support to manufacture
- Support to commissioning
- Support to pressure testing
- Support to proof loading
Aero-Engine Ground Test Pylon
Due to our customers’ increased engine size for cleaner, quieter, and more efficient flight, a brand-new pylon design was required to enable them to demonstrate these improvements.
Brand-New Pylon Architecture
Renowned for an innovative, adaptable and creative approach to engineering design and analysis, we provided a turnkey solution, from conception through to full design justification and assurance.
Withstanding Larger Loads
Increased engine size has resulted in greater loads compared to legacy designs. Our ability to model complex systems with cutting-edge analytical tools resulted in an optimised high-strength metallic structure which acted as the backbone of the design.
Increased Size vs Reducing Mass
A larger pylon was required for the new engine design, whilst maintaining compatibility with test-cell weight limits. Alongside an optimised metallic structure, our composites specialists designed lightweight composite panels for critical aerosurfaces to keep the weight to a minimum.
Stiffness Tuned to Flight Version
The pylon was required to respond dynamically in a similar manner to the flight version, ensuring testing accurately reflected the flight case. Efficient exploration of different concepts and advanced structural dynamics assessments lead to a solution that suitably replicated the flight equivalent.
Client Case
Client Case
Aero-Engine Ground Test Pylon
Due to our customers’ increased engine size for cleaner, quieter, and more efficient flight, a brand-new pylon design was required to enable them to demonstrate these improvements.
Brand-New Pylon Architecture
Renowned for an innovative, adaptable and creative approach to engineering design and analysis, we provided a turnkey solution, from conception through to full design justification and assurance.
Withstanding Larger Loads
Increased engine size has resulted in greater loads compared to legacy designs. Our ability to model complex systems with cutting-edge analytical tools resulted in an optimised high-strength metallic structure which acted as the backbone of the design.
Increased Size vs Reducing Mass
A larger pylon was required for the new engine design, whilst maintaining compatibility with test-cell weight limits. Alongside an optimised metallic structure, our composites specialists designed lightweight composite panels for critical aerosurfaces to keep the weight to a minimum.
Stiffness Tuned to Flight Version
The pylon was required to respond dynamically in a similar manner to the flight version, ensuring testing accurately reflected the flight case. Efficient exploration of different concepts and advanced structural dynamics assessments lead to a solution that suitably replicated the flight equivalent.
Software Tools
Design
- Siemens NX
- PTC Creo 4.0
- SolidEdge
- Catia V5
- SolidWorks
- Keyshot