High Quality engineering consultants
Warwickshire’s Most Innovative Engineering Consultancy
We help to realise your ideas. Our value proposition goes beyond design contributions or analysis reports, it is the knowledge that your product will perform as intended. Simpact have a strong track record of applying CAE services to a range of markets including Automotive, Aerospace, Defence, Industrial, Consumer, Rail and Marine.
Proven Engineering Methods
Mechanical Engineering Approach
The founders of our dedicated engineering team pioneered the application of CAE tools that revolutionised vehicle safety within the worldwide high volume automotive sector. The high level steps apply universally to de-risk development timescales and budget to make a product a success. We love applying these skills to other markets that have not fully adopted these techniques.
Always starting from basic engineering principles, not a specific piece of software, we will derive the best approach for your new product development. We can help you in the most productive and efficient way.
High Level Engineering Steps
CAE process honed within the high volume automotive sector.
Computer Aided Engineering
Design Target Specification
Identify and communicate product operational conditions.
Concept Design & Development
The foundational phase of the creative design process where functional operation is embedded.
Design Detailing
Defining and finalising individual parts and their interfaces.
Physical Prototyping
Building for validation or bespoke use (one offs).
Manufacturing
Testing
Physical Verification.
Our Services
Design Target Specification
Identify and communicate where and how a product will be used, the operational conditions and convert these into quantifiable properties.
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Concept Design
The foundational phase of the creative design process where functional operation is embedded
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Design Detailing
Verification typically runs in parallel with design. It is the comparison of the system performance to the design targets and it drives design decisions or is used to sign off a design.
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Prototyping and Manufacture
Creating an initial physical representation of a design for review and arranging production.
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Bespoke Engineering Capabilities
Our Engineering Capabilities span all the technology that you need for the stages of your new product development cycle – from target specification through to certification of the design.
First of all, the engineers mind to interpret our client’s product vision into a functional target set and an engineering roadmap. The capabilities of course include CAD required as input for visualisation, detailed calculations and manufacturing through to things like material characterisation and prototype build. Furthermore, in-house physical testing and data acquisition capability which includes high speed video recording we use for the correlation of CAE models and the verification of impact tests.
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Engineering Projects
The in-depth knowledge of our team enables Simpact to work across a diverse range of projects and sectors.
Automotive
ALM Innovation in British Hillclimbing
Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM), also known as 3D printing or additive manufacturing offers design freedom allowing to minimise weight, important when every gram counts.
Automotive
HPC for Vehicle Safety Simulation
High Performance Cluster computing making use of a dedicated independent service centre.
Defence
Shaping the Future of Body Armour
The effectiveness of PPE is compromised by ergonomic issues hindering the wearer's mobility. This study describes what it takes to develop more ergonomic chest plates.
Aerospace
High-flying technology for drone impacts
Application of cutting-edge Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for safety and crash analysis
Rail & Marine
Spacetrain – Spaceframe Structures for Rail
Getting rid of dead weight in public transport.
Industrial
Simpact/GCE Editorial
The design of a novel protective guard for a gas bottle valve. Traditionally these items are made out of steel, this is the first of a generation of polymer based designs.
Defence
The application of 3D Digital Image Correlation (DIC) to blast load cases
Our defence client came to us asking for us to provide an accurate calculation of dynamic displacements in 3D during a blast load case