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Durability & Reliability

Make hardware survive its full service life, high-cycle use, harsh environments, and real-world abuse.

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Most hardware fails in ways that were predictable — a fatigue point no one checked, a load path no one questioned, an environment no one designed for. We assess where and how a product will fail over its service life, rank those failure modes by risk, and specify the design changes that close them, so the product outlasts its warranty instead of becoming a recall.

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What's involved

  • High-cycle fatigue assessment and failure-mode analysis across the product's service life
  • Material and load-path review to find and close the weak points
  • Durability engineered to demanding standards, including MIL-STD-810G drop and shock
  • Validation against field data, with failure modes ranked by risk and matched to design fixes
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Haptic Consumer Product - Case Study

From concept art to production: designing a durable haptic consumer product robust enough to pass rigorous military testing standards, while still being lightweight and ergonomically friendly for guests of all ages.
Design for Manufacturing
Consumer Hardware
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25 Years, Millions of Cycles: Designing Interactive Hardware That Outlasts Its Audience

From brief to build: engineering interactive assemblies that survive years of unsupervised public use at high cycle counts, while remaining completely child-safe and reliable enough to run untouched every day.
Durability Engineering
Design For Manufacturing
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Installation Durability Assessment -TELUS Spark Science Centre

From field observation to direction: assessing the durability of four interactive installations, from tabletop exhibits to a multi-DOF VR flight platform, with no disassembly and no design documentation to work from.
Durability Engineering
Interactive Exhibits
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Tell us about your project, your timeline, and where you're stuck. We'll get back to you within 48 hours with an honest assessment of how we can help.

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