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Product Development
Robotics -- Laboratory/Industrial Automation
Motion Control -- Electronics Packaging (CE, UL)
Machine Design -- Thermal Systems -- Automotive
and Railway Systems -- Fluid Handling --
Consumer Products -- Aerospace/Defense
Products -- Optical Systems -- Office Equipment
Exercise/Sports Medicine -- Precision Machining
Sheet Metal -- Thermoformed/Molded Plastics
High Perfomance Plastics -- Aluminum Casting -
Engineering Services
Product Development -- Concept Generation through
Prototype Fabrication, Strategic Partners with
Industrial Design and Electronics Hardware/
Software Design
Engineering Analysis -- Finite Element, Failure
Machine and Process Design -- Industrial Robotics,
Laboratory/Shop Floor Automation
Prototype Fabrication -- In-House Sheetmetal/
Machining Capability, Strategic Partners
with Local Manufacturers, Testing (both
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Design Tools
CAD -- PTC Pro/Engineer (now CREO), Solidworks,
Autodesk Inventor
Analysis -- Pro/Mechanica, Autodesk Simulation
Data Management (Product Life Cycle) --
PTC Windchill, Autodesk Vault
Issue Tracking -- Issue View -
Sustainable Support
Maintain CAD data and designs with ongoing
product support
Product Life Cycle Management
Secure data with daily offsite backups
Client access through Cisco firewall
utilizing VPN client
FTP sites
What We Do
We are a full-service design and engineering consulting team ready to help you. Our in-house team of engineers offer a wide range of product and engineering experience and are specially trained to produce high-quality, complete designs that perform properly, meet your requirements and require no costly re-engineering by your engineering team. Furthermore, we have strategic partnerships in-place with local and overseas manufacturers, industrial designers, and electrical and software designers to provide solutions for your particular needs. In 2010, GCI added in-house prototype fabrication to its list of services. With this capability and our commitment to quality, we can provide real prototypes weeks ahead of our competition. Click here to see a list of our primary areas of expertise.
Product Realization
Inputs
Product requirements, concepts, knowledge
Process
Milestones and design reviews
As much or as little communication as you desire
Deliverables
Prototypes for proof-of-concept and testing
Complete manufacturing package
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Product Realization:
We can take your existing product concepts, requirements and knowledge and run with them. Typically, we set up design reviews and milestones to keep your project on-track and ensure that we deliver the design that YOU need. We can tailor this level of communication to whatever your needs and availability require. We also offer expertise in engineering analysis, Machine design, automation, and prototype fabrication.
xCollaborate
GCI will work with your team
Combine our design expertise with your product and industry knowledge
Function as a contributing team member or team leader
Participate in design reviews and meetings
Utilize web tools such as GoToMeeting
On-site participation
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GCI Will: Collaborate
If your project needs require the close participation of your in-house engineering team, we can Collaborate, combining our design expertise with your product and industry knowledge. We can function as a team leader or simply a be a contributing team member, participating or leading on-site or remote design reviews and providing product updates. We deliver exceptional quality, well organized designs that are instantly usable.
xAugment
Supply design and analysis expertise not available in-house
We provide mechanical support so you can focus on your core skills
Provide resources
Give your demanding customers the products and services they need without searching, interviewing, hiring, and training new staff
Take on new or additional projects
Let us work on the next generation of products, without taking valuable resources away from existing revenue-generating products
Follow Client processes and procedures
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GCI Will: Augment
If your existing team is taxed heavily with your existing products or by other aspects of the design, let us Augment your existing team with our experienced mechanical design staff. This is most common with clients that have existing electrical design staff, but require only periodic mechanical design engineering for new products or to add capability to existing products. We can also be used to fill your product pipeline while your existing engineering staff is busy with current products.
xSustain
Maintain CAD data and designs
Ongoing product support
Product Life Cycle Management
Secure data
Daily offsite backups
Client access
Through Cisco firewall utilizing VPN client
FTP site
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GCI Will: Sustain:
For many of our clients, we ARE their in-house engineering team. We have the ability to provide sustaining engineering for your existing products maintaining your valuable CAD data in our secure servers while you still have ready access. For mature products, we can provide these services at much lower investment than a full time engineering staff and IT infrastructure. When the time comes to develop new products, we can ramp up our resources without time-consuming and expensive search for the right resources. We have the infrastructure, processes and user-access in place to provide complete Product Lifecycle Management for your existing and new products.
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