Design, Simulation and Modelling Service
Dycotec Materials' design and modelling service supports customer product development by developing designs and concepts, manufacturing prototype systems and comparing them against simulated data, undertaking failure mode analysis, and running a rapid iterative process that improves product robustness while confirming the most appropriate advanced materials have been selected from the outset.
What Does the Design and Modelling Service Cover?
To provide this service we have a dedicated engineering team with a diverse range of skill sets, including capabilities in software development, electronics design, statistical analysis, and 3D mechanical design and assembly. This enables Dycotec Materials to efficiently take our customers' concepts from prototype to product launch.
Collaborative Design and Concept Development
We develop designs and concepts alongside your engineering team, rather than reviewing a finished design after the fact. Because material selection and design decisions are made together, constraints such as substrate behaviour, cure temperature and conductor geometry are handled before they become rework.
Simulation and Digital Twin Comparison
Prototype systems are manufactured and compared against simulated data. Comparing experimental results with simulated digital twins shortens the design loop, because a design change can be assessed before it is built.
Failure Mode Analysis
We undertake failure mode analysis and apply predictive failure mode analytics, then feed findings into a rapid iterative process to improve product robustness. This confirms that the most appropriate advanced material systems have been selected from the onset, so product durability is maximised.
How Does Modelling Shorten Development?
- Model before buildingElectrical and thermal finite element analysis indicates how a design will behave, so fewer physical iterations are needed.
- Build and measureA prototype system is manufactured using our advanced materials systems.
- Compare against the digital twinExperimental results are compared with simulated data to validate or correct the model.
- Analyse failure modesPredictive analytics identify where and how the design is likely to fail.
- Iterate rapidlyDesign and material selection are revised together, improving robustness while saving cost and development time.
Where the model shows that no standard material meets the requirement, the project can move into custom formulation. Where predictions need to be confirmed against real environmental stress, they are validated through durability testing.
Which Design and Modelling Tools Are Used?
Customer products can be readily prototyped with our extensive range of design and modelling tools, including:
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- 2D and 3D CAD
- Statistical software including predictive failure mode analysis
- Firmware and software development
- Finite element analysis including electrical and thermal modelling
Modelling usually runs alongside a build. See our prototyping service, or tell us what you need to model.
Why Use Dycotec for Design and Modelling?
Rapid product development, comparing experimental results with simulated digital twins
Appropriate advanced material systems selected from the onset, so product durability is maximised
Failure mode predictive analytics
Save cost and development time
Modelling, material formulation and physical build sit on one UK site, so a simulation result can be tested the same rapidly.
Start a Design or Modelling Project
Send us the concept, the performance target and any existing CAD or test data, and we will tell you what modelling will and will not resolve.
- Get in touch to scope a design or modelling project.
- Request a quotation for materials alongside the design work.
- See all Dycotec services to combine modelling with formulation, prototyping or testing.
- Call +44 (0) 1793 299500, Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:00 UK time.