Experience that Brings Real-World Durability & Performance to Designs
6D brings decades of equipment/product field testing, troubleshooting, simulation and practical mechanical and structural engineering experience to every project. We’ve seen how products, equipment and structures react under all types of conditions in every environment and situation imaginable. Simply put, we bring a unique perspective to product development based on decades of practical hands-on experience.
6D’s Design Support services range from competitive benchmarking and simulation through physical testing and product validation. No matter if you are designing next generation products or upgrading existing products, 6D will help you structurally improve new mechanical product/equipment/structure designs.
Product Validation Services
- Perform pre-validation design review to ensure that systems comply with good design practices
- Benchmark your current process to ensure your approach and tools are state-of-the-art
- Help integrate your validation process into your standard operating procedure
- Provide supplemental Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and/or Testing services and help your team learn how to do them more effectively
- Mentor and assist your team through the complete validation process from developing an overall process to final field testing
Why 6D?
- EXPERIENCE in New Product Introduction
- EXPERIENCE in Existing Product Upgrades
- EXPERIENCE throughout Numerous Industries
- EXPERIENCE Around the Globe
- EXPERIENCE in Teaming with Customer Resources
New Product Introduction
Today’s accelerated new product development cycles put a strain on design and simulation. We provide the information that allows you to make informed decisions and proceed with confidence that your new design will meet expected, and often unanticipated, real-world operating conditions.
Services:
- Benchmark earlier designs or competitive products to create customer usage profile and load data for new product development.
- Provide early upstream simulation to validate or identify fundamental design issues
- Explore more design alternatives to increase innovation
- Simulate dynamic interaction of new equipment with existing equipment
- Create a test or simulation validation plan
- Validation test and support design improvements
- Provide physical prototype testing and validation
Existing Product Upgrades
Equipment, structures and products are continually evolving; and even incremental design modifications can dramatically affect balance, noise, vibration, and lead to catastrophic failure. For example, your modified equipment may have different mass, and/or different forcing functions; how will this impact support structures and surrounding equipment? 6D can help you understand in advance how design changes can impact system performance.
Services:
- Conduct testing and simulation on the original system to understand existing system dynamics. We can create a simulation model and correlate to test data of existing system
- Help you use the correlated simulation model to evaluate how upgraded equipment will perform on the existing support structure
- Use simulation to identify needed changes to the support system
- Provide a final validation of the installed new or revised system or product
Industries
We’ve covered a lot of ground in our years of testing, analysis and troubleshooting. From off-shore oil platforms to mining and construction, automotive proving grounds and beyond – 6D has worked with nearly every industry under the sun. See the list here.
Contact us
Do you want to learn more about how 6D can support your product design team? We’re always happy to discuss your requirements with never a cost nor obligation.