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CAD, DFMA, multiphysics, digital twins, and product development from one team
Get the design right before tooling. Free assessment and roadmap.
The Problem
PPS engineering consulting services decide cost, risk, and performance while the design is still cheap to change. Most of a product's cost is locked in by early design choices, long before the factory or the field sees it. Every extra part, loose tolerance, or untested assumption is paid for on every unit, for the life of the product. Designs pushed out too fast come back as rework, recalls, or missed launch dates. Engineering consulting answers the question in between. What does this design need to do its job at the lowest total cost?
The PPS Approach
Our engineering design services cover five ways to take cost and risk out of a product. CAD design services turn ideas into buildable parts. DFMA cuts part count and assembly cost. Multiphysics simulation couples heat, flow, and stress. Digital twin services model running equipment against real data. Product development services carry a design from concept to production through gates you approve. Most products need two or three of them, run as one loop.
CAD Design · Buildable parts
DFMA · Fewer parts, lower cost
Multiphysics · Coupled physics
Product Development · Concept to launch
Why use specialists instead of adding this work to a busy design team? Because good answers depend on method. Tolerances, materials, process choices, and load cases decide whether a design is ready or just looks ready. Our engineers check each design against analysis, supplier input, and any test data you have before you see it. A second engineer checks the work before it leaves our hands, so mistakes stop here.
The goal is not a drawing set. It is the lowest total-cost design. That means the simplest product that meets its requirements, made by the process your suppliers already run, and ready for the tests your customers require. Our engineering consulting services team works beside our FEA consultants and CFD consultants. So a load, a heat problem, or a casting limit won't surprise the design late in the program. We manage prototypes and builds through our partners or yours. You own the IP by default, set in your contract.
The 34% less rework, 51% fewer prototypes, and 37% shorter test phase figures are from the PPS Innovation Edge white paper.
Ideas, sketches, and legacy drawings that suppliers can't quote. Get clean models and drawings they can.
Drawings that get quotes.
Applications
3D CAD
Drawings
GD&T
Legacy Files
Products with too many parts and slow assembly. Question every part and design the cost out early on.
Fewer parts, lower cost.
Applications
Part Count
Assembly
Process
Unit Cost
Heat, flow, and stress that act together. Solve them in one model and stop stacking margins on margins.
Solve the physics once.
Applications
Thermal
Fluid
Structural
Coupled
Running equipment you can't stop to test changes on. Model it against real data and try changes there.
Try changes on the model.
Applications
Physics Model
Live Data
What-If
Uptime
A design keeps failing validation, prototype after prototype. Engineer each gate so decisions arrive in time.
Launch on real evidence.
Applications
Stage-Gate
Concept
Prototypes
Launch
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The simplest, lowest-cost design that meets its requirements, with the evidence shown for every decision.
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Design data and results you review and approve at each gate, before anything moves to tooling.
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The design, drawings, and models belong to you.
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If we missed it in our QC, we fix it. If your supplier can't make the part within three years, or supply dries up, we fix that too.
You send
What we need to start
CAD, drawings, or sketches, in any format
Requirements and operating conditions
Material specs or test data
Targets for cost, weight, schedule, or code
History: failures or earlier test results
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You get
What you hold at the end
Free assessment of your project scope and data
Roadmap with scope, targets, and gates
Prototypes and tests managed through partners, when in scope
Design changes, drawings, and native CAD
Support after delivery
We price to the value we deliver, not the hours we log. If the value isn't there for you, we'll say so in the assessment.
We review your project scope and the CAD, requirements, costs, and targets you have.
Scope, gates, targets, and the decisions each gate settles.
Design, analysis, and DFMA, checked before each gate.
Design changes, drawings, native CAD, and model files.
Questions, test correlation, and supplier issues.
You approve the data at every gate, so nothing surprises you. Our design, DFMA, FEA, and CFD engineers work as one team on your product. If we missed something in our QC, we fix it. If a supplier can’t make the part within three years, we fix that too.
Shape first, cost and checks later
Or patch it until it does
Tooling and test article paid for
Cost, fit, or strength problems show up
New geometry, new prototype, new test
Which decisions drive cost and risk
CAD, DFMA, simulation, or twin
Design refined to real cost
Second engineer verifies the model
Build once, to confirm
Flight hardware that must be light, documented, and proven. Design to the reviews your customers run.
Prove lighter parts.
Applications
Brackets
Housings
Composites
Documents
High-volume parts where every cent counts. Design for the process and volume your suppliers already run.
Built for high volume.
Applications
Castings
Molding
Assembly
EV Systems
Frames, buckets, and wear parts that fail on remote sites. Design the field fixes into the next build.
Stop costly downtime.
Applications
Frames
Wear Parts
Weldments
Service
Skids, vessels, and equipment that must pass validation. Design cleanability and cost in from the start.
Pass the review first.
Applications
Skids
Vessels
Validation
Cleanability
Fixed scope for one project. A lower-risk place to start when you want to see our work on your data.
Start with one project.
Fits When
One Project
Fixed Scope
From $35K
Scheduled monthly engineering for recurring needs: drawing updates, ASME calcs, or FEA for each sale.
Work on a set schedule.
Fits When
Monthly
Recurring
From $15K/mo
A dedicated PPS team working your program daily, built for long, multi-year development and testing.
Your program, every day.
Fits When
Daily Work
Multi-Year
From $800K/yr
FEA, CFD, CAD, DFMA, and testing under one roof. Engineering is a team sport, and you get the whole team.
One team, every skill.
Under One Roof
FEA
CFD
CAD
DFMA
Testing
Veteran-owned SDVOSB status gives defense and federal buyers a set-aside path to proven engineering.
Verify our SDVOSB status.
Credentials
SDVOSB
VOSB
CAGE 8ZK73
NAICS 541330
Missed something in our QC? We fix it. Supplier can't make the part within three years? We fix that too.
Support for the long run.
We Fix
Our QC Misses
Supplier Gaps
Supply Chain
We price to the value we deliver, not hours logged. You buy a design that works, not more iterations.
Pay for the result only.
Collections
Gold
Platinum
Diamond
Which engineering consulting services does my product need?
Engineering consulting services should be chosen by the decision you face, not by a list of skills. Start with the symptom you see first. If suppliers can't quote your drawings, you need clean CAD. If unit cost is too high, you need DFMA. Coupled heat and stress needs multiphysics. The wrong service wastes time and budget. A simulation can't fix a drawing suppliers won't quote. Drawings without clear tolerances invite guesses, and ASME Y14.5 exists so every shop reads a part the same way. A cost-down that skips the loads can trade a cheaper part for a field failure. Each wrong turn moves your launch date.
Our CAD design services make drawings suppliers can quote. DFMA services design the cost out. Multiphysics simulation solves coupled physics. Digital twin services model running equipment. Product development services carry a program through its gates. Many products need two at once. One team works them together, so one decision never undoes another. The free assessment tells you which you need and which you can skip.
Can engineering consulting replace our own design team?
Engineering consulting services work best alongside your team, not in place of it. Your engineers know the product, the customers, and the history. We add the methods and capacity your team lacks the time for: DFMA reviews, coupled simulation, gate reviews, or a design push before a deadline. Stretched teams skip steps. A review gets rushed, a load case gets guessed, and the problem surfaces in tooling or test. NASA splits its project life cycle into phases with a key decision point at each boundary. Decisions made on thin evidence cost the most to undo. Outside help pays off most at those points.
Some clients bring us in for one project. Others keep us on a steady rhythm, or hand us a full program for a fixed period. Either way, your team stays in control. You approve the data at every gate, and you own the IP by default, set in your contract. We work in your CAD formats and release process, so your engineers keep the methods and skills in-house.
Can PPS work with our manufacturer or test lab?
Yes. Our engineering consulting services work with the shops and test labs you already know and trust, or with our partner network. Many programs use both kinds. What matters is that one engineering team ties them together, so every party works from the latest design and the latest data. When each vendor reports to you on its own, you become the integrator. Changes travel by email, parts get cut to old drawings, and test results arrive with nobody tasked to act on them. The Defense Department's IPPD Handbook organizes programs around integrated product teams for this reason, with design, build, and test working to one plan.
We manage your builders and test labs inside one engineering loop. We release the design, track each prototype and test, read the results, and make the fix ourselves. NDAs cover every party from the start of the program. You decide how far we take the design, up to the start of production. We never run production, and you own the IP by default, set in your contract.
Who owns the design and the models?
You own the design, the drawings, and the models from your engineering consulting services project at delivery. Some firms keep the models, or license them back to you, so every later change sends you back to them. That locks your product to one vendor and makes design reviews harder, because your team can't open the evidence behind the decisions. At PPS, the IP transfers with the solution. Nothing is held back to tie you to us. You receive the native CAD, the drawings, the simulation model files, and the documented results. Your engineers can then check the work, rerun a load case, or hand the package to a supplier or customer.
We sign mutual NDAs before any of your data is shared, and your files stay in our controlled project folders while we work. If your program has export-control or customer data rules, tell us at the start and we will set up the data handling to match them. For defense programs, the State Department ITAR guidance sets the rules we follow.
What happens if a design keeps failing validation?
If a prototype fails in test, we find out why and fix the design. Hard engineering carries unknowns on any project: real loads, material lots, and assembly effects never match a model perfectly. With engineering consulting services from PPS, you approve the data at each gate. A test result is then checked against predictions you have already seen, not a black box. A failure in test is data. It shows which assumption was wrong: a load, a material property, or a boundary condition. That data improves the model and the design.
When testing is in scope, we plan the test to confirm the margins that matter most. Then we correlate the model to the results, following ASME verification and validation practice. If the miss was ours, because something slipped through our QC review, we fix it. If the test uncovers a condition nobody knew about, we scope the change with you and update the roadmap. Either way, you get a clear answer and a path to a design that holds.
How are engineering consulting services priced?
We price engineering consulting services to the value they deliver, not the hours we log. Hourly billing rewards extra iterations, so the cheapest quote often becomes the most expensive project once tooling, rework, and field failures show up. Our incentive is to get the design right the first time. We engage by fit, not as a ladder. Gold (from $35K): you have one project and need help with it. Platinum (from $15K/mo): you have recurring work at a steady rhythm. Diamond (from $800K/yr): you have a long development program, often multi-year.
Gold is never required, and some clients start at Platinum or Diamond. These are starting points, not quotes; your roadmap sets the price. We price to the value we deliver, not the hours we log. If the value isn't there for you, we'll say so in the assessment. Our engineering consultant pricing page explains how each collection works in more detail.
Not sure which service fits? Send the design. Free roadmap.
Send your CAD, requirements, and targets. We review your project scope in a free assessment and reply within one business day with next steps.
On-site assessments that require travel are quoted separately.
