AND Technology Research | Prototyping & Manufacture

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Detail design & computer simulations are great, but at some point theory needs to be put into practise. AND offer a range of physical rapid prototyping services to help assist you with the development of your ideas - from early technology demonstrators to allow testing of concepts, through to pre-production prototypes, that look, feel & operate like the final product, but without the associated cost, ideal for trials or market testing.

While AND has traditionally taken a project requirement from a client & worked with it through to delivering pre-production prototypes of the product back to the customer, through ANDs approved partner program, full manufacturing services can know be offered, providing a full turn-key approach to product design & development, whilst maintaining the high quality & standards customers have come to expect from ANDs work.

PCB technology demonstrators & prototypes

Reverse engineering/design update

As engineers move on & R&D departments scale down increasingly companies can find themselves in the position of wanting to add new features to a current product that's been selling for years, stopped in their tracks by the fact that a design file cannot be opened in current CAD systems or simply no documentations exists for the current design.

Over the years AND has helped a number of companies in this situation through its reverse engineering & design update services. Existing design documentation/files can be updated or re-entered in to compatible CAD system software to produce new design files & manufacturing data. In extreme cases, where little or no documentation exists AND have the experience necessary to completely reverse engineer the design from the end-product back to the drawing board - producing CAD PCB files, BoMs, Gerber files, etc., allowing manufacturing to resume or design update/overhauls to begin.

Where component obsolescence is an issue, AND can assist by designing in suitable alternatives to solve component shortage or end of the line situations.

Enclosures & housings

Whether it is a unit to be house in a 19" rack bay or tomorrow's latest mobile phone, AND view the product casing as an integral part of the PCB design process. Mounting, thermal dynamics, mechanical constraints, usage, safety etc., are all important factors that are taken into account during the PCB design process, to ensure that electronic board works in harmony with the enclosure..

For basic & industrial enclosures AND carry out the majority of the mechanical design in-house. However, where more technical or ergonomic pressures influence the design, say in consumer products, AND have extensive experience of working closely with customer appointed industrial design consultancies to achieve the design.

AND can now also offer professional mechanical design services & facilities through its approved partner programme, meaning that in addition to carrying out the design & development of the concept technology, AND can also manage & provide enclosure design & manufacture - a true one-stop-shop design facility reducing project development time, money & complexity.

Electronics housed in both basic/industrial enclosures & consumer products