Applidyne

Product design engineering in Adelaide

Applidyne is an Adelaide engineering consultancy of product designers working in mechanical, mechatronic and electronic engineering. Product design and research and development are what it says it does best, backed by experience in systems design, technical investigations and engineering analysis. Its work has won Australian Design Awards, and its clients come from medical, automotive, mining, agricultural, defence, aviation and consumer goods sectors.

Mechanical design

Mechanical engineering and product design has long been the core activity, and the firm points to products such as power fold mechanisms for automotive rear vision mirrors and active suspension systems for mining dump trucks. Its listed core skills are mechanism and machine design, mechatronic design, thermoplastic design for injection moulding, dynamic systems analysis and modelling, structures and stress analysis including finite element analysis, thermodynamics and heat transfer, systems integration and packaging, research and development, and preparation of drawings to the Australian standard AS1100. Designers work in Creo, Inventor and Solidworks, often checking designs with Ansys. The firm keeps an in-house measuring lab for tolerance checking, plus a workshop and test facility to assemble and commission new systems.

Electronic design

The electrical and electronic side spans embedded microcontrollers to electromagnetic actuators. It has developed reliable electronics for mining and aircraft, and its experience ranges from one-off production line testers to high-volume, price-sensitive consumer electronics. Software is part of the offer as well, so a project can combine mechanics, electronics and code under one roof.

Projects in the gallery

The gallery shows the range: a colour-sensing toaster, a hydrogen project, shear rolls, a consumer electronics enclosure, a multi-function console, a tube bender, a tray design for a large mining truck, a drilling rig gearbox, a hospital bed mover and an investigation into vibration affecting an FTIR spectrometer.

Ideas to production

The firm helps with generating new product ideas, getting products into production and everything in between, from CAD, finite element analysis and prototyping to testing. It also runs a design competition open to engineering students and early-stage design engineers.