Integrity Engineering & Design Solutions

Engineering, technical and project-support staff for complex programs are supplied by this company, which also trades as Integrity-EDS and IEDS. It describes itself as an engineering partner that delivers solutions using deep resources and broad expertise. Staff operate inside the customer's own requirements, objectives and approval processes, and the company says it has worked on aerospace, defense, technology, telecommunications, manufacturing and government programs since it began in 2002.

Engineering and program support

The company's workforce supports customer initiatives across systems work, other engineering fields, program oversight and quality assurance. It also supplies technical documentation writers, procurement support staff and testing resources for programs that need hardware or system checks. The company says its people can be deployed one by one as specialists, within integrated project teams, or as managed support resources, depending on what a program needs.

Certifications and quality

The company says it earned its AS9100:2016 Rev. D certification, and ISO 9001:2015 registration, before developing its own engagement method. Quality is presented as a condition of outsourced engineering. The company argues that many outsourcing relationships lose quality, program management and technical depth, which leads to missed deadlines and overspent budgets, and it says its certifications and method are meant to address that risk.

The FlexInterface method

FlexInterface Project Fulfillment is the company's trademarked engagement method. It uses a proprietary program management platform to assess a customer's specific needs at any phase of development and then fulfill them with a targeted solution. The company describes the method as giving it strategic and tactical agility, and it says it can deploy people rapidly as a program's needs change.

Circuit board design for a missile program

One example the company describes is a missile program that pushed existing technology. Its printed circuit boards had 26 layers with split planes, signal integrity checks on individual planes and very dense small components. The company says the work needed highly specialized designers, fabricators able to produce a new board technology and an assembly supplier able to place hundreds of very small parts on a single dense board.

Work on the Orion crew vehicle

A second example is the Orion crew vehicle program, in which the company worked alongside two prime contractors. It performed the printed circuit board design and was later contracted to build the hardware for specialized test equipment for each of five primary navigation cards. The company says it put a team in place within seven days, including project and procurement managers, systems engineers and PCB designers, and that it then designed and assembled 22 boards and updated more than 300 mechanical drawings in about five months.

Network of suppliers and individuals

The company says that years of collaboration on programs have given it a network of experienced suppliers and individuals who can be made available for a client's next program. It presents this network as something it can draw on when a client's next program starts, and it stresses that customers keep ownership of requirements, design authority and final acceptance of the work.