Mechanical Design

Mechanical design provides the foundation for breakthrough products. Applied Engineering can help you turn an idea for a product or machine into a working model, meeting all of your physical and performance requirements. Your creative vision can cost-effectively become reality by leveraging Applied’s extensive experience in 3D CAD modeling for companies across many industries. Applied’s talented team of engineers will work at your site or in our design centers using the latest tools to help you with design and documentation.

 

How Applied Fits

Applied’s mechanical design engineers can help you:

• Design and develop structures, machines, sheet metal parts, plastics, castings, hydraulics, electrical systems, and a wide variety of other components and systems.
• Model detailing, documentation, and CAD data management.
• Produce and publish technical documentation of operation manuals, service manuals,
  parts manuals, and other documents.
• Design with industry-leading CAD packages, including SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Pro/ENGINEER, Unigraphics NX, and others.

 

Let’s Get Started

Applied Engineering provides you with local convenience and flexible scheduling, so we fit into your budget right where you need us. Whether you’re located in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Fargo, Eau Claire, Sioux Falls or anywhere in between, Applied can help. Build your next project while building a partnership with mechanical design experts at Applied Engineering. 

 

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What Customers are Saying

“Over the course of the project, the engineer provided by Applied produced over 1200 fixtures at a cost that was 25% less than having a full time mechanical designer on staff. Our product design cycle is now within a day or two because of the engineers’ expertise in utilizing the design features of our software. Without Applied we would be limited in the new customers we could seek out as well as the size of projects we can go after.”

-Jim Scheu
 Operations Manager, Quality Tool Service

 

Recent Projects

Below are some recent design and engineering projects completed by Applied Engineering.
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Software(s) Used	Project Type	Industry	Project Overview
SolidWorks	Automated concrete panel surface finish wet sand blaster	Construction	A customer contacted Applied in need assistance designing an automated concrete palen surface finish wet sand blaster system. We started with the basic concept of what they were trying to accomplish for their customer and, through the design process, developed a complete system from the bottom up.
Autodesk Inventor	Hydrocyclone Aggregate classification equipment	Agriculture/Aggregate	A company needed assistance developing a new design for a series of hydrocyclones for classifying raw aggregate material into varying material classes. Applied was able to assign one of our mechanical engineers to assist in designing other novel classification equipment for new product lines they wanted to expand upon.
SolidWorks	Diesel Engine 3D file conversion	Automotive	The customer had 3D CAD files in a universal file format and wished to have them converted to SolidWorks format. Once our engineers completed the conversion, the customer then needed assistence for a series of add on components to be designed to fit the engines.
SolidWorks	Wind generator blade gelcoat and fiberglass application trolley	Energy	This client needed modifications made to a trolley system they had purchased from their vendor. Applied engineers were tasked with the designing of additional components necessary to lengthen the trolley, as well as fabrication and installation of the finished product.
Creo	Wheel loader fender lift cart	Agriculture/ Construction	A company contacted Applied needing a new fixture designed to aid in lifting the fenders up for installation without the use of overhead chains or cranes. An engineer was sent out to design the wheel loader fender lift cart, and see the project through completion.
SolidWorks	Portable refrigerated cooler design	Consumer Products	This customer needed help developing their design for a liquid carbon dioxide powered refrigerated food cooler. An Applied mechanical engineer was tasked with the project and sent over to work along side their design division.
SolidWorks	Ice cleat design	Retail	A customer needed several modifications made to their already existing product line of slip on rubber ice cleats for boots and shoes. By contacting Applied, a mechanical engineer was able to be brought on in a timely fashion to work right alongside the design team.
SolidWorks, SolidWorks Simulation	Induction heater	Automotive	An Applied engineer was brough on and designed automated manufacturing equipment for a customer. The process included engineering a custom induction heater matching that matched all of the customers specifications.
Creo, MS Office products & Team center.	Product Design	Agriculture	An Agriculture design company contacted Applied in need of a mechanical engineer to assist with some of their design projects. The engineer was brought on, and was able to fit seemlessly into the design space.
Autodesk Inventor	Product Design	Retail	The project included creating assemblies to show the differences in types of sills, side jambs, and head jambs that were being packaged. In addition, drawings and presentation views were created to document how the new door was being packaged and shipped. Applied created the standards that could be followed throughout the company for future packAgricultureing lines.
Creo	Current product engineering	Agriculture/Construction	A client turned to Applied for assistance with designing new and improving current products. Customers of this construction company have requested new buckets and components for their current machines. An Applied mechanical engineer designed the new models to fit multiple OEMs.
Creo	Extralink for releasing and vaulting models and drawings.	Agriculture/ Construction	Our Applied engineer assists in the design of custom skid steer attachments right along side the design team. The designs created may be for customer orders, R&D, or revising current attachments for the customer product line.
Creo	Warranty Analysis	Agriculture	We had a customer contact us that was recently having trouble with warranty issues. The engineer from Applied suggested an alternate latching mechanism for which to provide kinematic and static analyses. This drastically reduced the warranty issues the client was facing, thus increasing revenue.
Autodesk Inventor	Data translation	Mining	A company needed to hire an engineer to fill a temporary position for a project. An Applied engineer was tasked with converting 2D AutoCad prints into 3D models and drawings of their existing products.
Autodesk Inventor	Assembly fixtures	Mining	Applied received a request from a mining company in need of a mechanical engineer. One of our engineers was sent over and tasked with designing fixtures and documenting the assembly process.
Creo	Plastics design - Die casting design	Agriculture/Construction	A customer came to Applied with a project that included designing custom electrical connectors, die-cast aluminum housings/heatsinks, and injection molded plastic housings/covers controllers to be used on diesel engines.
Creo	Vehicle Interior design	Automotive	One of our mechanical engineers was put on the project of designing parts for vacuum formed plastics, compression molded rubber, and composites (headliner).
SolidWorks	Automation equipment design	Automotive	An Automotive company contacted Applied in need of a mechanical engineer to assist with some of their automation equipment design projects. The engineer was brought on, and was able to fit seemlessly into the design space.
SolidWorks	Project Engineering	Agriculture	A client needed SOLIDWORKS expertise because they had primarily been using 2D AutoCAD to design their new tender. Applied provided an engineer with SOLIDWORKS expertise in order to convert and help complete their projects
Ansys FEA, Creo	FEA Analyst	Agriculture/Construction	A customer needed another analyst to help get through their backlog of analysis requests. Applied sent over an experienced employee to help with the heavy project load the customer was facing in a timely manner.
SolidWorks	Automation equipment design	Food Industry	One of our engineers worked primarily on updating scans of hand drawn prints to a 3D model and new prints. Changing some design aspects as well as creating the platforming with all the OSHA regulations and rails and guarding.
Microsoft Office products, specialized software for production tracking, accounting, change management, and test data	Program Management	Agriculture/Construction	The tasks Applied was needed for included coordinating multiple projects and continuous improvement activities, managing agricultureing cross functional teams, supporting resolution of production issues, and clearly communicating updates to the customer.