Orion Product Development Case Study - Thermoformed Packaging and Tooling

We were requested to provide design engineering services for a number of innovative new product and tooling designs by this major international player in the food packaging industry, leveraging our significant previous experience in this area. Each project involved idea generation, concept design, detail design, engineering drawing and photorealistic rendering in the case of product designs. Typical project values were several £100K each, with end customers being major UK and international fast food chains and supermarkets, such as McDonald's and Sainsbury's

I worked with Kevin on the Management Team at a mutual former company, so was keen to engage him when we have had an urgent skills shortage for several new product and tooling development projects.I find him to be extremely versatile, proficient and reliable, and he always delivers what is requested efficiently and to a very high standard. I would have no hesitation in engaging him again or recommending him to others.

Thermoformed Product and Tooling, Plant Manager

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09, 14

Orion Product Development Case Study – Marine Renewables, Trenching and Mining

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Orion Product Development Case Study - Marine Renewables, Trenching and Mining

We worked on several innovative and fully bespoke product development projects within the Renewables, Trenching and Subsea Mining divisions of this internationally successful bsuiness.

The Renewables projects each involved delivering a FEED study for various innovative subsea renewables installations around the world, covering the full range of product development activities, including idea generation, concept design, detail design, stress analysis, engineering drawing, prototyping, testing, project management and costing. Several of these went on to working prototype and full commercialisation phase.

Trenching projects involved similar activities on commercial subsea crawler remote operated vehicles. We worked on several complex bespoke sub systems of various vehicles, such as hydraulics, structural elements, cable laying sub assemblies, electronic systems, drivetrain and hydraulic power units etc.

Working within the subsea mining division also involved the full range of product development activities, again working on several complex bespoke sub systems of the vehicle. The vehicles themselves were to be deployed by a large international mining corporation off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

All work was carried out while integrating into the project teams at senior engineer level, often also checking and approving the designs and calculations of other engineers.

Project values ranged from several £100K up to several £million.

Here are some video links to these interesting projects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMs_hoBdGSw&list=LLLE4VwHDAP6S10deKkSR1PQ&index=10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wblle4zRA2M&list=LLLE4VwHDAP6S10deKkSR1PQ&index=13

Kevin worked with us at a Senior Engineer level on several new product development projects within the Trenching, Renewables and Subsea Mining Divisions. He is extremely innovative, technically proficient and diligent, and therefore adds significant value to any given project. I would have no hesitation in engaging him again or recommending him to others

Former Technical Director, SMD

All pictures in this article used by kind permission of SMD Ltd.