Consultancy

Carver Engineering offers consultancy services to assist clients to challenge and refine a concept.

Strengths

Over the past 10 years we have demonstrated to show the following strengths:

• Creative non-conventional solutions (Out-of-the-box thinking)

  Carver Engineering has a team of highly creative engineers, who enjoy and understand the art of innovative thinking. Problems are seen as a challenge and approached from many different and often surprising angles.

• Fast feasibility study

  The major strength of Carver Engineering is the way in which feasibility studies are performed. Our engineers have the capabilities to quickly turn conceptual ideas into designs that can be quickly turned into computer models ready for evaluation by computer simulation. With our workshop and a network of high-tech suppliers, these conceptual designs can quickly be worked out into actual prototypes ready for critical hands-on evaluation. During this evaluation both objective aspects such as durability and stability, as well as subjective aspects such as comfort and feel can be tested.

  Because our team has short communication lines and our engineers are involved in all the aspects of the feasibility study, the iterative process is very fast. On the basis of this rapid feasibility study, clients can quickly decide to continue the concept or to abandon it.

  When continuing after the feasibility stage, Carver Engineering can assist to quickly turn the conceptual design into a detailed engineering package ready for commercialisation (short time to market). When exiting the concept, because of the relatively short time involved, the costs of the feasibility study will be relatively low (Fail early).

• High quality standards geared towards customer satisfaction

  Carver Engineering has a quality and safety management system in place that allows developing high quality engineering solutions in a reliable way. At the same time this system is such that it minimizes bureaucracy and still allows optimal flexibility and is not restrained by excessive procedures often found in large organisations. Carver Engineering thus can maintain a working climate in which professional creativity can flourish to allow break-through inventions.

Expertise, competences & skills

Carver Engineering has experts in the field of:

• Vehicle Dynamics
• Vehicle package analysis
• Tilting vehicles
• Hydraulic systems
• Wheel suspension

Competences:

• Project management
• Quality management

Our team can bring the following technical skills to the table:

• Mechanical engineering
• Hydraulics
• Electronics
• Electronic-hydraulic hybrid systems
• Dynamics vehicle behaviour
• Computer simulations
• Prototype manufacturing
• Value / cost engineering
• Vehicle market data

Our team has experience in the following activities:

• Design studies
• Prototype building
• Feasibility studies
• Dynamic road behaviour studies
• Detailed engineering
• Product cost analysis
• Market studies
• EC homologation