Company R&D
Dr. Solenoid offers one stop product designs from 3 D drawing, dummy/function prototype, metal tooling and processing, plastic mold and injection PCB circuit drawing and manufacturing under one location. Our ISO9001:2015 certified design process ensures that each step of the design effort is well managed and documented.
Once the project is confirmed, we will set up the 4 phrase R & D meeting for all of our key member and let everyone know the project situation in details.
A. Design proposals will include the structure of the design team, description of design solution, list of major components, project schedule, development and product unit cost.
B. Design Verification will confirm outputs meet the design requirements. Design Validation will confirm the products perform the expected functions.
C. Test Plan and the Agency Approval (if needed) will be carried out in parallel with the Design Verification.
D. Design Assurance will confirm the outputs meet the required quality and reliability expectations. In addition to standard analysis, additional analysis such as Mean Time Between Failure, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulations, and Tolerance Analysis are also included. Other specific analysis can be completed per customer request or as recommended by Dr. Solenoid’s experienced Design Assurance Engineers.
Electronics Design
Digital circuit design at product level with the following expertise: Software development with support ranging from product application to test and diagnostic development,
Mechanical Design
Dr. Solenoid mechanical design team can provide solutions for the below design areas: Large size plastic and metal enclosure of solenoid products such as sheet metal casings of large-scale professional consoles. Plastic housings of small and dedicated products including headsets and other small handheld devices.
PRO/ENGINEER and SolidWorks: 3D mechanical parametric modeling CAD to create the 3-dimensional mechanical and structural design models. They can handle complicated surfaces and structures of the product design.
ZWCAD: 2-dimensional mechanical CAD for specifying the detail information of parts in 2D drawings.
Mold Flow Analysis: It can simulate the plastic flowing process and result of injection molding plastic parts such that any potential problem of the tooling can be discovered before we start to make a hard tool. Here the mechanical parts and tooling designs can be modified and improved for manufacturing.
The product design must be in compliance with the industry regulatory body requirements and country specific approvals based on the market on which the product is to be sold. This includes EMC, safety, environmental friendly approval requirements such as FCC, UL,, CSA, CE, JET, ERP, RoHS, etc. Our compliance engineers have a wealth of experience on addressing approval issues in order to ensure that the designed product can pass and be granted the required approvals.
The project engineers will carry out all the product functions and environmental requirement verification. The following items will be checked and insured:
Product features and functions
Product required reliability tests
Environmental safety requirements such as RoHS (or REACH per customer requirement)
DFMEA (Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis) to analyze different possible design faults and to make the corresponding improvement.