As a respected mechanical design and engineering consultancy, we provide first-class mechanical design services that help clients strengthen their design capability and accelerate development. We deliver high-quality, cost-effective engineering design packages that quickly increase design resource, create additional development capacity, and support robust design from early concept through to manufacture. By using our highly structured WorkFlow process to manage our projects, we ensure our work is properly planned, delivered on time, and controlled to budget.
Building a relationship with an external design team that understands your products, systems, and ways of working means you avoid repeatedly inducting on-site sub-contractors or bringing new design people up to speed. We are a well-established, highly flexible resource available at every stage of a project, able to expand or contract as required. Our support can continue through the manufacturing process and long after a project is complete, helping to maintain design intent, improve reliability, and support robust outcomes in production.
We use simulation and FEA throughout the design process but also offer a stand alone FEA and Simulation service if you need specific help. Using simulation & kinematic analysis software allows us to optimise and verify the mechanical designs we produce for our clients, as well as your own designs. In doing so, we are able to improve designs by reducing component weight and therefore associated costs, ensure products and components are safe, and improve fatigue performance.
Our existing clients know that we are always at the end of the phone to place an enquiry or to deal with an unexpected mechanical design or engineering issue with minimal hassle themselves. As one of the UK’s top mechanical design agencies, our service is available at all stages of a project from concept to manufacture. Using Haughton Design will provide extra resource, fresh ideas, and eliminate continuity problems or delays. This means your project will always stay on track and be profitable throughout.
Jack is responsible for the engineering aspects of projects to ensure technical risk is minimised. With expertise in simulation, drug delivery devices, and electronics, Jack guides your project team on all related deliverables.
Jack is a Chartered Engineer with a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has over 10 years’ experience working in both the medical sector and on complex machinery.
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