Icona Solutions Introduces Services Offering

By DE Editors

Icona Solutions Ltd. (Manchester, UK),  the developer of innovative perceived quality simulation solutions, introduced a range of consulting and engineering services designed to help manufacturers improve perceived quality in new products.

Supporting all areas of manufacturing, from consumer electronic devices and domestic electrical appliances to automotive vehicles and aircraft, the new services draw on Icona Solutions’ years of experience in implementing perceived quality processes, enabling companies to review their designs at an early stage to optimize new products, and avoid costly re-work later in the product development process.

Offered without the need for customers to purchase licenses of Icona Solutions’  aesthetica perceived quality simulation and visualization software, the new services include the provision of experts to work alongside a manufacturer’s own team to help improve the way in which perceived quality targets and information flows across the entire product development process are managed. They also include the provision of suitably-qualified engineers to work with a customer, either on-site or off-site using a secure data transfer system, for as long as is required at any stage in the product development process, from early design concept through to manufacture and production, to ensure new products meet required perceived quality standards.

Offered either on their own or as a precursor to in-process perceived quality services,  Icona Solutions’ consulting services provide process mapping, to identify and map the processes and data flows used within an organization, as well as tolerance analysis, with accurate, real-time visualization of the results.

Perceived quality services can then be provided, at the concept stage to analyze sensitivity, communicate targets, define virtual audit processes and virtual worst case samples and to visualize derivatives; at the design stage to optimize locator strategies, reduce sensitivity to variation and identify concepts with consistent perceived quality; at the validation stage to analyze full perceived quality; and at the confirmation and improvement stage to validate tooling changes, analyze root causes of perceived quality issues and to perform what-if studies.

Icona Solutions Ltd. is a member of both Dassault Systèmes’ CAA V5 Adopters and of Siemens PLM Software’s JT Open programs.

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.