Engineering Consulting Services

MechAssociates' engineering consulting services focuses on providing advanced engineering technology solutions to companies with a need to:

• Streamline and accelerate the engineered product development process;
  
• Synchronize the design, testing, and manufacturing processes;
  
• Automate the engineering design process;
  
• Capture and centralize product data, knowledge and core technologies.

MechAssociates' engineering consulting services provide independent assessments of a customer's current product development environment. We are not affiliated with third-party technology/software vendors. We work in a structured manner toward providing a complete set of solutions that meet the customer's needs in product development. We make it our job to stay on top of the latest engineering technologies so that we can offer our customers accurate and dependable advice on those technologies most suited to their needs. All of this while always keeping in mind that our number one goal is reducing overall product development cost while accelerating time to market.

Our process functions through fulfilling the following objectives:

• Examine business goals, determine current and projected challenges;
  
• Review current product development process, in-house technology, and recommend strategies for utilizing more effective technologies in light of current and future goals;
• Identify development process deficiencies and bottlenecks;
• Determine Return on Investment (ROI);
• Implement recommendations and strategies.

MechAssociates provides engineering consulting services that can assist our customer's in implementing process improvement recommendations. Our engineers have expertise in the areas of R&D, structural mechanics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and thermodynamics, control systems, systems modeling and analysis, testing and measurement. In addition we provide direct assistance in areas of:

• Contract engineering services;
  
• Engineering project management;
  
• Applications training & support;
  
• Process automation, integration, and data management;
  
• Expert systems, customized applications & software development;
  
• High performance computing services.

Contract engineering services

In times of overflow or simply to ease the burden of financial obligation required to maintain advanced engineering applications, MechAssociates provides direct contract engineering support to your engineering department in our areas of expertise.

Engineering project management

MechAssociates also provides project management services to our customers in overseeing complete projects. We can also work side-by-side with project management teams in providing strategies and advice regarding the appropriate use of engineering technology within the project.

Applications training & support

Training and technical support services offered by most commercial engineering software companies typically address only issues directly related to their product. Often the need arises for support in an area not directly related to a particular software application. Often a customer's needs are urgent, and the software vendor's support team cannot respond accordingly. MechAssociates fills-in the gaps by providing not only software applications support but by providing general engineering technology advice and support. All of this while understanding and responding to the customer's urgent need. We work on a per incident or contract basis to provide our customers with advice and knowledge that overcomes challenges and uncertainties.

Expert systems, customized applications & software development

Commercial engineering software applications are often not targeted specifically to a customer's needs. MechAssociates works with customers to tailor commercial packages to suit a customer's specific requirements. When commercial software packages do not have a specific capability needed by a customer, MechAssociates develops both supplemental and stand-alone routines that address that customer's needs. From graphical user interfaces and automation routines that act as expert systems to stand-alone routines that interface with the entire product development process MechAssociates works to fill in the gaps not addressed by off-the-shelf applications. Our software development services can provide your engineers with expert technology at their fingertips without the need for expert knowledge. Our software development services can accelerate you product development process, increase repeatability, and reduce errors by automating the design, analysis, and optimization steps.

High performance computing services

Many of our customers occasionally have needs that exceed their in-house computational capacity. Today's engineering technology has given us the capability of solving tremendously complex problems. However, due to the computational requirements to solve these problems, this capability is often not utilized. When this need arises, we at MechAssociates provide high performance computing services through use of our HPC facilities. These facilities are available online and require very little customer interaction. Our customers simply submit the model database through our highly secure online system. The analysis is conducted on our system and results submitted to the customer online. All communications are highly secured. All data is fully backed-up, secured, and protected using 128-bit encryption technologies. In addition, customers have global access to the facility on a 24x7 basis from any Internet browser.