Engineering for Automotive, Transportation & Mobility

Our multi-disciplined, highly skilled engineers can work as an extension of your team, on or off site, in a way that suits you best.

We have a flexible approach in supporting any engineering programme, from new product development, new industrial pieces of kit and bespoke items.

Validation Design and Testing

Our skilled engineers carry out a variety of vigorous testing services that are fundamental to design breakthroughs, identifying limitations, optimisation, and areas of adjustment.

  • Impact and track tests
  • Physical validation
  • Cubes and Bucks
  • 3D and Rapid Prototype models
  • Full size & Scale Models
  • Working on Static Models

DVP (Design Verification Plan)

Envisage offer high level and comprehensive analysis of design, focussed on the verification of designs, incorporating all legal requirements, including feedback of preventative measures into the design data.

Launch Support

We support our clients to get their products to market in a cost effective and efficient way.

  • Taking designs to manufacture.
  • Project manage suppliers on client’s behalf.
  • Carry out low volume manufacture.

Body In White (BIW)

Envisage can support the full process for BIW from benchmarking and target setting through to prototypes and manufacturing. This is the process of defining what the end customer wants. By identifying the key attributes for the end user, the competitive set can be benchmarked against them, and a desired market position can be defined. From this data the targets for the systems are set to achieve the desired market position.​

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Benchmarking and Target Setting

This is the process of defining what the end customer wants. By identifying the key attributes for the end user, the competitive set can be benchmarked against them, and a desired market position can be defined. From this data the targets for the systems are set to achieve the desired market position.​

We work with clients at all stages of this process, benchmarking vehicles, measuring, and scoring attributes, and setting targets.​

Concept Engineering

We turn the designer’s visions into reality, using A-surfaces & materials the engineers’ task is to try to make this work in the real world.​ Concept studies will assess ergonomics and packaging of the components.

Materials will be assessed against manufacturing methods for feasibility, and the overall product design will start to be defined in more detail.​ All issues/conflicts will be fed back to the designers to find mutually acceptable solutions.

Prototypes

Prototypes can be used for physical testing, packaging, PQ, or customer analysis.

  • Body in Black
  • Seating, Interior/Exterior trim
  • Closures & Hardware
  • Sealing & water management, brightware & glazing
  • Vehicle Integration, Light weighting
  • Body Structures
  • Body Complete

Vehicle Development

  • Vehicle Integration
  • Simulation
  • Test and validation
  • Launch support and VA/VE

Full Vehicle

Multi disciplined team with expertise across

  • Body in white
  • Light weighting
  • Interior
  • Seating
  • Powertrain
  • Vehicle integration

Body Closures and Trim Systems

Our engineers see body, closure, and trim systems as a fully integrated form to ensure the highest standards in structural rigidity and crashworthiness. Our team have delivered several studies and engineering development for different types of closures systems.

Using tools and informed judgement we carry out virtual simulations, physical and analytical assessments.

We confirm design performance in relation to:

  • Load cases
  • Optimal material selection
  • Joint conditions
  • Roofing, door, and frame systems

We have completed full closures projects up to the PR2 gateway including;

  • Dynamic Sealing
  • Glazing Sealing
  • Trunk/boot/tailgate
  • Doors
  • Frunk/Hood
  • Flaps/fillers
  • Glazing(inc. regs)
  • Mechanisms
  • Acoustics
  • Brightware
  • Handles
  • BIW Analysis Benchmarking
  • Hardpoint creation
  • Section book creation
  • Carry-over part analysis.

Our Trim projects have included;

  • Interior/exterior
  • Plastics
  • A-post
  • B-post
  • Skirts
  • Bumpers
  • Mouldings
  • Finishers
  • Badges

Concept, packaging and visual representation

Offering creative design support for concept, packaging, and visual representation for anything you can see or touch for the interior or exterior of a vehicle, fuselage, show pod or model plus associated mechanisms. We believe the key to great design is found between the connection of technology and art. We push ourselves to be progressive, using cutting edge technology to deliver experimental design services. 

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VA/VE Value Analysis and Value Engineering

Envisage engineering team are well equipped to take on any value analysis and value engineering project looking at a products, features, systems, equipment, and material selections to ensure they achieve essential functions at the lowest life cycle delivering the required performance, quality, reliability, and safety. 

We use value engineering to solve problems, eliminate unwanted costs, improve function and quality. The steps we take in the process will optimise the initial and long-term investment, seeking the best possible value for the lowest cost following these steps:

  1. Gather Information – Conduct functional and cost analysis.
  2. Ideation – We brainstorm ideas and come up with possible solutions.
  3. Evaluation –Evaluate ideas to develop further.
  4. Analysis – Conduct in-depth analysis of our ideas.
  5. Share:Share the ideas to key stakeholders.
  6. Implementation:Put a plan in place.

Perceived Quality (PQ)

Envisage has an experienced in-house team of Perceived Quality engineering professionals who provide customer perceived quality and gap analysis with a full programme delivery from concept to launch.

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Programme Management and Delivery

  • Concept design and feasibility
  • Studio, product, and design engineering
  • Test and validation
  • Risk analysis and quality tools

Delivery across multiple attributes

  • Gap and Flush
  • Design Integration
  • Sound Quality
  • Haptics
  • Material and finishes

Contact our Engineering for Automotive, Transportation & Mobility team directly

Contact our Engineering for Automotive, Transportation & Mobility team directly

    Key Contact Engineering for Automotive, Transportation & Mobility

    Stuart Smith

    Head of Concept Design & Engineering