Design Energy Limited is an engineering firm specialising in ‘R&D Turn-Key’s’ Our focus is on ideation, creation and commercialisation of technology products; our customers and our own ideas and opportunities; consumer and industrial. We have a strong background in the development of products to market in all scales; from one-off solutions such as our bespoke robotic production machines through to high volume export products. Areas of expertise - in order of product life cycle: - Opportunity - Market research/analysis, ideation and business cases, planning and funding - Product development – consumer products, machines, robotics - Production – supply chain, production implementation and process optimisation - Market – product technical support, generational and gap-in-market improvements Technical skills and knowledge – in-house, plus extensive - Engineering - mechanical, mechatronics and production process - Production – robotics, manual/automated machines, process development/optimisation - Component design – plastics, sheetmetal, metal casting, extrusions, machining, DFM - Industrial design - ergonomics, aesthetics, usability - Equipment – Turn-key robotic/automated production machines - Management – planning, resource, supply chain Industrial Robotics - development, supply of robots and automated production equipment - Experience with automation of welding, machine tending, packing, labelling, gluing, product assembly, robot machining, injection mold/IML tending, general handling - New Zealand agent for Nachi Robotics (Japan) – High Performance 6 axis and SCARA robots - New Zealand agent for Universal Robots (Denmark) – Worlds' leading 6 axis collaborative robots