Applidyne

Applidyne is an engineering design consultancy in Adelaide, South Australia, made up of mechanical, mechatronic and electronic product design engineers. Product design and research and development are its core work, alongside technical investigations and engineering analysis. It has won Australian Design Awards for its designs.

What Applidyne does

• Mechanical design: mechanisms, machines, injection-moulded plastic parts and structures, drawn up in Creo, Inventor and Solidworks.
• Electronic design: analogue and digital circuits, PCB layout in Altium and KiCAD, and embedded software in C, C++ and assembler.
• Engineering analysis: stress analysis and FEA, dynamics, heat transfer and design checks in Ansys.
• Technical investigations: working out the cause of hard problems, such as vibration in a spectrometer.
• Prototyping and testing: an in-house measuring lab, workshop and test facility, plus supply chain help for overseas production.

Who it serves

Clients come from automotive, mining, medical, agriculture, defence, aviation and consumer goods. Past work includes power-fold mirror mechanisms, active suspension for mining trucks and a multi-function console for Saab.

Key facts

• Based in: Brompton, Adelaide, Australia
• Recognition: wins in the Australian Design Awards
• Design tools: Creo, Inventor, Solidworks, Ansys, Altium, KiCAD