At Stress Engineering Services, we actively pursue a strategy of investment and growth to support a range of specialized manufacturing equipment development markets. This commitment to staff and facilities, coupled with nearly 50 years of custom equipment development experience, has propelled our specialized equipment development group to the forefront of our services portfolio. Our experience ranges from the development of relatively simple semi-automated assembly equipment to complex, fully automated machinery for both small companies and multi-national manufacturers.
The development of manufacturing equipment and automation is a challenging task. Most manufacturers don’t require new systems all that often, but when they do, it must be right. That is why we have created an equipment development process that addresses this need.
A key component of our development process was borrowed from NASA’s “Technology Readiness Level” (TRL) assessment methodology. Disciplined application of the TRL approach ensures a clear, sober assessment of the design readiness as a requirement for advancement through a design gate. This process enforces an assessment, reassessment, and management of risks throughout the development.
