Design and Engineering

What are the boundaries between Innovation Engineering and Design? Of course there are none. Design evolves with the creation of innovation and engineering. We see Engineering being the implementation of Innovation and Design being the embodiment of Engineering. So, what comes first? Innovation, Engineering or Design? The Design Brief, of course! But before that the project requirements must be defined: User Requirements Specifications and Functional Requirements specifications. Without those in place there is no metric to judge reaching the finishing line. Without that Designers and Engineers will continue to “improve” the solution.

Design is all about meeting the User Needs, Engineering is focused on meeting the Functional needs. Both need to work in harmony. Design is a science. Without Engineering, Design become Art. Concorde that can’t fly.

Design and Engineering can exist without Innovation, sometimes in Product improvement or extending a product life cycle but often from the Engineering and Design solutions to meet the  User and Functional Requirements is born Innovation.

The Output of Design is documentation. A package of information allowing a design to be realised into a successful product.  This documentation may include; 3d Cad data tolerances, detailed tolerance drawings, Design for Manufacture and Design for Assembly studies.

Malsen has many years of experience working through the Product development cycle from Specifications, through Design, Engineering and Innovation to production documentation and working with customers or our own internal projects through industrialization, Design Qualification, Process Qualification and production.