Service offerings

Are you an established company with in-house R&D and manufacturing? Do you need on-demand help or specialized engineering expertise? Are you simply looking to cut costs and speed up your engineering activities? We offer the following services. Tell us what you need.

Pricing: Hourly Rate or by Contract

R&D

Industrial & human factors design
3D CAD modeling
Detailed drawings with GD&T (ASME Y14.5-2009 standard)
Photo-realistic renderings
Prototyping
3D Printing
3D Scanning
Design of assemblies for ultrasonic welding, laser welding, adhesives, fasteners, welding, snap fits, shrink fits.
Part design for injection molding, sheet metal, CNC-machining, welding, casting, 3D printing, die cutting.
Mold design and mold flow analysis
Finite element analysis (FEA) for deformation, structural, thermal, vibration and fatigue
Reverse engineering
Design for Manufacturability and Assembly
Value engineering / design to cost
Stack-up tolerance analysis (worst case and stochastic methods)
Design for Six Sigma
Electro-mechanical designs, PCBA packaging of boards, motors, mechanisms.
PCB layout designs

Manufacturing

Tooling design
Processes design
Process characterizations, Design of Experiments (DOE) for manufacturing processes
Measurement systems analysis: Gage R&R, etc.
Establishing statistical process controls

Documentation

Specifications
Engineering drawings
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Bill of Materials (BOM)
Product verification plan/report
Process validation plan/report (IQ/OQ/PQs)
Gage R&R report
Attributes Agreement Analysis report
Design history file for FDA 510(k) submission and CE marking
Procedures

Software Capabilities

Solidworks, PTC Creo (Pro/Engineer), Autodesk Fusion 360
FEA using Solidworks, Creo, ANSYS or Comsol
Programming in Matlab, C, Java
Schematics and layouts using Diptrace, OrCAD

Product development

Pricing: End-to-end product development process starting at $8,996.

The process of bringing a product from idea to production can seem daunting and complex. Let the Dex team help with engineering. We have engineered a handful of successful products on the market now and have a few patents pending.

What to expect? We’ll work with you through regular meetings and by communicating milestone progress, from industrial design, proof-of-concept, engineering & prototyping, to manufacturing introduction and production launch. You will have sole ownership of what we produce. Since every product is different, pricing varies as well. Please contact us so we can give you a price estimate on what you will pay for your project stage-by-stage.

Competitive analysis

Pricing: Starting at $4,796 per product.

A teardown is the act of disassembling a product to identify its component parts, chip and system functionalities, and costing estimates. Results are communicated through photographs, component lists, assembly and mechanisms descriptions. Three main purposes of performing teardowns and comparing teardowns are to 1) identify innovations to improve a product in its design, functionalities and engineering / manufacturing, 2) estimate a bill of materials (BOM) to find improvements in costs and 3) if needed, present in court and litigation proceedings to demonstrate intellectual property or patent infringement.

What can you expect? Dextrous Design Engineering performs teardown analysis for any physical product and provides a report with illustrations, a bill of materials, methods of manufacturing, method of assembly and areas for improvement for the product in cost and functionality. Additional evaluations are permitted by request. When multiple product teardowns are requested, we include a comparative analysis free of charge.

Patent Filings and Proceedings

Shao Bo Zhou is a registered patent agent, who files, prosecutes patents and represents clients in patent proceedings before the USPTO. Because the language used and timing are critical in any patent application, we advise our clients to consider patenting process as soon as possible if intellectual properties protection is important for their invention.