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)