Industrial Design

Client: Fabricated Products

Project: Pressure Water Vessel

Industry: Plumbing

Project Stages: Design modifications, development, FEA Analysis, physical testing. prototyping, silicon tooling, design for manufacture.

P1 Technology were asked to re-design a pressure vessel for injection moulding manufacture whilst conforming to British plumbing standards. Development towards manufacture was carried through a series of test prototypes as well as FloWorks simulation software to ensure that fluid would flow through the product efficiently.

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Silicon tooling rapid prototyping techniques were employed to prove the final design before signing off for major investment in tooling, ensuring a quality, fully working product was produced.

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Client: Traffic Systems

Project: Product Design

Industry: Transport

Project Stages: Concept generation, prototyping, electronic design, lighting design, design for maintenance, styling, UV testing, design for manufacture, injection mould tooling

P1 Technology worked closely with Traffic Systems Co-Operative who were looking to develop their own products including a fully functional traffic signal head unit. British and CE standards, Trade marking, patent application and design registration were all established and incorporated within the design.

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The project has enveloped a wide range of product detail including aesthetics, electronic design, ease of assembly, design for mass manufacture, product maintenance, lighting and LED display. Initial concept designs were developed through clear communication between P1 and traffic systems and approved by generating 3D CAD images and drawings ensuring the customer’s needs had been realised.

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Using rapid prototyping technologies, P1 created working models to prove form, finish and further validation. The implementation of detailed 3D data conformed to customer specifications and industry standards and the product was further developed for production techniques such as metal fabrication and injection moulding. Production in the far east is now underway with several units on trial. Through developing their own product Traffic Systems have been allowed to work independently, controlling their own costs and giving opportunity to increase profit margins.

Client: Samuel Staniforth Ltd

Project: Product Design

Industry: Cutlery

Project Stages: Concept generation, prototyping, ergonomics, surface modelling, design for manufacture, injection mould tooling

Samuel Staniforths Ltd have been manufacturing a wide range of professional knives since 1864. The company had recently incorporated injection mould tooling into their manufacturing process to reduce time to market and to reduce costs. As part of a MAS funded 10 day intervention project P1 technology designed a filleting and vegetable knife handle for tooling. Research and testing was carried out into the ergonomics and safety of the handle through rapid prototyping technologies.

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One of the key elements of the brief was for the handle to accommodate the varying sizes of tang, bolster and finger guard. The handle is now at tooling stage and ready for mass manufacture.

Client:Ski Mojo

Project: Product Design

Industry: Winter sports

Project Stages: Development, prototyping, design for manufacture, injection mould tooling

We were approached by a company producing high-tech revolutionary skiing aids for people who want to ski all day. We got involved in the development of the Mk II product, firstly offering advice on rapid protoyping material and process choice for the application. This initially involved some FEA testing using a custom material for SLS GF to see if the product would be strong enough. These tests proved that it would be, and so a series of protoypes were produced until the company were happy that they had reached a stage where they could move forward to injection mould tooling. At this stage, materials and tooling advice was offered to ensure that the product would be robust and appropriate enough for its repetetive use. The component list involved a range of small machined parts, which we produced 2D drawings for on demand and sourced quality suppliers for prototyping to keep up with the rapid SLS process.