Intellectual property:

 

Provisional Patent and Patent

PCT (Patent Convention Treaty)

▫ Design Registration

Copyright

 


 
 
 
 
   
   

 

 

Design tasks/considerations:

 

Finite Element Analysis (FEM)

Design for Assembly (DFA)

Design for Manufacture (DFM)

First Article Inspection (FAI)

▫ Process Compatibility Index (CpK)

 

 

 


 

   

Environmental design:

 

Ingress Protection (IP), up to IP68

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)

Bump and Vibration

Impact and Shock Dampening

▫ Temperature Cycling

▫ Topple and Slide Tests

▫ Humidity

▫ Solar Radiation

▫ Salt Mist

▫ Free Fall

 

 

 


 

   

Directive Compliancy

 

European Conformity (CE)

▫ Underwriters Laboratories (UL)

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

▫ Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)

South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)

 

 

 


 

   

Concurrent engineering experience:

 

Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBA)

Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI)

Radio Frequency (RF)

Optical Design

Acoustic Design

 

 

 


 

   

Prototyping Capabilities:

 

Computer Numeric Controlled Milling and Turning (CNC)

▫ Stereolithography (SLA)

Selective Laser Sintering (STL)

Soft Silicone Tooling

Short run Polyurethane Casting

 

 

 


 

   

Manufacturing Processes:

 

▫ Injection Molding - High and Low Volume

▫ Metal Forming and Bending

▫ Vacuum Forming

▫ Blow Molding

▫ Machining - High and Low Volume

▫ Tamper Printing and Silk Screening

 

 

 


 

   

Institutions:

 

▫ University of Cape Town

▫ University of Stellenbosch

▫ Cape Peninsula University of Technology

▫ IDEA (Industrial Designers Association of South Africa)

▫ SABS Design Institute (South African Bureau of Standards)

▫ BOTEC (Botswana Technology Centre)

▫ ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design)

   

 

     
     
     

 

 


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