Charlwood Design Product Development and Industrial Design - Mlebourne
Overview
Charlwood Design is a full-service product design and engineering consultancy dedicated to helping its clients achieve market leadership.
Charlwood Design is committed to delivering innovative and sustainable product design on time and on budget. We design products that resonate with target users and help clients become market leaders across diverse industries such as consumer, medical and electronic products. We develop brands by immersing ourselves in trends and desires.
Much of our work has involved working in the international environment and designing to meet international standards. Given the global nature of the product market place our experience has made us highly skilled at world product design.
Charlwood Design is a broad base Australia Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering service that provides innovative product solutions to the world. Our total product development approach is delivered using state of the art tools and non-linear processes. The end result is Innovation.
We designed, engineered and supplied (form, electronic, software mechanical) the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton. We where selected from a very competitive list of Australia design companies to undertake this major project.
Competitiveness: Differentiating, consolidating and innovating: Good design adds value to a product. It is an important strategic, competitive advantage—Now and for the future.
Competitive advantages
- Innovation
- Design and engineer for low or high volume production
- Excellent relationships with South East Asian suppliers
- Photonics and Electronics partners for product design
- Ergonomics research for the fitting of prosthetic equipment.
Understanding the need for innovation and speed in the global market place, we have developed and employed a mix of state of the art processes and thinking to deliver world-class product development and innovation. This is achieved by using or 'I-Spiral' process, which delivers, guaranteed results.
Core Disciplines
- Capital goods
- Durable consumer goods
- Biomedical devices and prosthetics
- Interface and interactive products
- Electronic point of sale equipment
- Transport Design
- GSM applications and mobile telephony
- Safety equipment
Core Services
- Product intelligence
- Market research
- Design profiling
- Innovation 'i –Spiral'
- Concept generation
- Design development
- Product engineering and analysis
- Prototyping and testing
- Documentation
- Tooling management
- Production management
- Sub-manufacture and assembly
Partners
Main business focus/
Listing by sector:
- Medical Devices - Medical device development
Competitive Advantages
- Innovation
- Design and engineer for low or high volume production
- Excellent relationships with South East Asian suppliers
- Photonics and Electronics partners for product design
- Ergonomics research for the fitting of prosthetic equipment.
Understanding the need for innovation and speed in the global market place, we have developed and employed a mix of state of the art processes and thinking to deliver world-class product development and innovation. This is achieved by using or 'I-Spiral' process, which delivers, guaranteed results.
Core Disciplines
- Capital goods
- Durable consumer goods
- Biomedical devices and prosthetics
- Interface and interactive products
- Electronic point of sale equipment
- Transport Design
- GSM applications and mobile telephony
- Safety equipment
Core Services
- Product intelligence
- Market research
- Design profiling
- Innovation 'i –Spiral'
- Concept generation
- Design development
- Product engineering and analysis
- Prototyping and testing
- Documentation
- Tooling management
- Production management
- Sub-manufacture and assembly
Technology/IP
- Digital design environment (Pro/Engineer, Mechanica FEA, Moldflow plastic analysis)
- In-house Rapid Prototyping
- High quality short run production
- Asian Tooling and Production for low cost/volume production
- Environmental testing
- Focus group room
- Exhibition space
Corporate Alliances/Partnerships
- Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
- Glaxo Smith Kline
- Cochlear
Partnering Opportunities
- Medical instrument manufactures and distributors
- Companies requiring complex ergonomic solutions
- Research organisation wishing to move their work to production
Contact Details
| Contact person | Paul Charlwood |
|---|---|
| Job Title | Director |
| Address | 50 Glasshouse Road |
| City/Suburb | Collingwood |
| State | Victoria |
| paul@charlwood.com.au | |
| Phone | +61 3 9416 1611 |
| Website | http://www.charlwood.com.au |
