Additive manufacturing offers new opportunities for development and production, but we must first meet the application requirements.
Taking your product from design to production.
Product Development Lab
Our product development lab brings all of our core competencies together. Firstly we focus on defining a detailed product roadmap. Secondly, we implement a prototyping and testing plan to optimise the product’s performance. Finally, we explore how to effectively scale the product for manufacturing.
With support from the product development lab, clients can complete the development cycle and progress their initial idea into manufacturing. Our multi-disciplined team follow a thorough protocol to ensure any specific needs and challenges are addressed along the way.
We provide extensive prototyping and testing facilities, enabling clients to robustly trial their designs before going into production. We consider workflows, cost reduction and eco-design options, to present our clients with a complete picture of the opportunity.
Using cross-sector expertise, our expert team can provide a fresh perspective on product development. Specifically, we help our clients achieve product innovation by taking trends from one market and successfully applying them in another.
Competences
Design
Workflow Optimisation
Design for Manufacturing (DfM)
Design to Cost
Cost Reduction
Design for Assembly (DfA)
Eco-design Sustainability
Prototyping
Functional Mock-up
Virtual Prototyping
Rapid Prototyping
3D Printing
Machining
Casting
Testing
Design of Experiment (DoE)
In-line Quality Testing
Analytics & Statistics
Virtual Testing
Abuse Test
Case studies
Low-Cost Battery for Disposable Devices
Introducing energy into disposable devices is currently a major bottleneck. BlueThink has developed a battery to change that.
Developing a User-Friendly Healthcare Device
Developing a healthcare device that’s user-friendly was at the heart of the brief from this client, a major healthcare manufacturer. They wanted to design a brand new nebulization system for an aerosol device used with babies. The key objective was not only to improve performance, but also to have less component parts overall.