MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Spiraling product costs and margin pressures are challenging the mechanical engineering industry to reinvent itself. Looking beyond the traditional approach to engineering, intensifying focus on R&D, leveraging new technologies, and enabling faster, better, and more cost-effective product development is imperative to remain competitive.

For more than 25 years, ECS Techno Labs has partnered with businesses to offer state-of-the-art mechanical engineering services. With a strong foundation in mechanical engineering design and industry-specific domain knowledge, we have delivered leading-edge engineering solutions across several verticals, including energy, mining, oil and gas, healthcare, transportation, heavy equipment, consumer products, and aerospace and defense.

Impact Delivered

Reduced engine noise by 50% and supported double-digit improvement in fuel efficiency for a large aero engine program by delivering 27% of the engineering effort, including 100+ design concepts. Reduced time-to-market for a heavy-duty truck crane from 14 to 11 months by supporting end-to-end product development including structures, hydraulics, engine integration for emission compliance, and meeting roadability requirements of all states in the US. Enabled seamless integration for a top mining OEM that had acquired a company with a different platform for equipment design. We helped migrate 3,000+ components from SolidWorks to Unigraphics while ensuring 99% first-time acceptance. Reduced engineering cost by 20% for the water management system of a wide-body, long-range aircraft program by identifying superior alternate material and redesigned parts for weight optimization.

Benchmarking Services

Leverage our market research, tear-down and feature analysis, and reporting capabilities to get insights on product attributes, including its performance, material properties, and manufacturing costs. For added competitive advantage, our benchmarking study also offers recommendations on relevant product changes.

Product Engineering

Develop robust products with designs validated through a multidisciplinary product engineering framework optimized by design-to-manufacture (DFM), design-for-assembly (DFA), and design-for- reliability (DFR) perspectives. We also help clients on an as-needed basis in the production and testing of prototypes. Our cross-functional team has rich experience in mechanical, structural, electrical, and embedded hardware and software engineering aspects for reliable product design.

Mechanical Design

Enhance your product design processes with our comprehensive solutions from concept initiation to release of production drawing within mechanical designs. Our iterative design process validates design specifications at each stage of the life cycle. Our design cycle comprises concept design and selection, preliminary design including material selection and sub-system design, and detailed design of modules, assemblies, geometric dimensioning, and design optimization.

Mechanical Analysis

Optimize your mechanical analysis capabilities with conventional and advanced numerical simulations, including finite element/volume/difference, discrete element, and boundary element methods. We provide multi-physics solutions to help clients achieve the ideal weight, volume, manufacturing costs and time-to-market for products. Our expertise in this domain spans structural, thermal, CFD, mold flow, electromagnetic and multi-body dynamics analysis.

Product Localization

Comply with statutory standards while also addressing feature requirements and cost expectations of new markets by leveraging our product localization services including benchmarking, value analysis, compliance, detailed designing, prototyping and testing, and technical documentation.

Modeling and Detailing

Address product development, design upgrades or product refurbishment with our parametric feature-based solid modeling, domain-specific modeling, freeform surface modeling, exploded views, layout drawings, and design validation and verification in 3D and 2D.

Hydraulic Design

Leverage our expertise in hydraulics application engineering with and diverse product knowledge in hydraulic torque wrenches, cylinders, actuators, accumulators, valves, filters, hose fittings, pumps, and fixtures. We help customers with subsystem and manifold design, actuator design, component sizing and selection, simulation, routing, and layout design for hydraulics systems in various products.

Value Analysis and Value Engineering

Follow a structured process for value analysis and value engineering (VA/VE) to eliminate redundant features and reduce the weight and costs of your products. Our VA/VE solutions are focused on weight optimization through design studies, feature enhancement through functional analysis of products and sub-systems, and performance improvement by validating performance aspects and identifying improvement opportunities.

Reverse Engineering

Capture holistic product design information, including dimensions, material properties, and performance parameters with our reverse-engineering capabilities. We combine shop-floor mechanical skills and CAD tools to help our clients identify design intent of products through feature analysis, digitalization, material analysis, performance testing, CAD models, and manufacturing drawings.