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“The folks at Red Cedar are professional, intelligent, and exciting to work with. With their help, we were able to optimize an extrusion design by reducing mass significantly further than with traditional CAE methods.”
-Dan Casey, P.E. Senior Applications Engineer Steelcase, Inc.

"We work with Red Cedar Technology because we benefit from their in-house engineering expertise, and we trust them to handle every project with the highest level of professionalism and quality." 
-Scott Wellman, President, NVH Solutions

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Engineering Consulting Services

Innovative Solutions to Your Challenging Engineering Problems

We provide CAE design, analysis and optimization services that give your company a competitive advantage in a crowded market. 

The design and manufacture of new products requires development teams to satisfy a myriad of conflicting objectives, including rapid increases in design complexity, performance requirements, time-to-market demands, and material costs. Additionally, in today’s tightening economy, maintaining a full range of in-house engineering expertise is not cost-effective for many companies. But failing to improve products and processes is not acceptable either.

Our engineering services provide your team with the latest technology and expertise required to achieve innovative designs, while significantly reducing your product development time and cost.

Our Services
Our consulting services include computer-aided engineering (CAE) modeling, finite element analysis, design optimization, and software customization – from the concept stage through final design.

  • CAE Modeling and Analysis — Advanced finite element modeling and simulation of linear and nonlinear systems and manufacturing processes. High-fidelity computer models are used to provide insight into the mechanical, thermal, fluid and acoustic behavior of your products and processes.
  • Design Optimization — Multidisciplinary and multi-objective optimization of linear and nonlinear systems and manufacturing processes. Exclusive automated search technology is used to explore the design space and identify optimized solutions to your most challenging design problems, improving performance and quality while reducing mass and cost.
  • Application Customization — Specialized software design tools customized to your applications and workflow processes. By capturing and automating your workflow for CAE analysis and design exploration, these customized tools drastically increase the productivity of your engineering teams.

Benefits
By taking advantage of our decade of experience and exclusive design optimization technology, engineering teams can:

  • Identify innovative solutions to challenging engineering problems, with emphasis on superior performance, robustness, and cost savings.
  • Develop more efficient designs that use less material and are easier to manufacture.
  • Achieve significant productivity gains in the design of their engineered products and processes.
  • Attain a competitive market advantage by compressing the time to develop superior product designs.
  • Eliminate overhead by working with a trusted resource for engineering expertise and services.

Client Success Stories
Companies worldwide trust their most important engineering design projects to Red Cedar Technology. Our engineering expertise and unique design strategies are used by product development teams to design safer cars, life-saving cardiovascular stents, innovative structures for air travel and space exploration, robust manufacturing processes and much more.

Passenger safety compartment optimization
Decreased mass in safety cage by 23%

Coronary stent shape optimization
Reduced maximum principal strain by a factor of three

Design of a composite wing

  • Reduced failure index by 30%
  • Reduced deflection by 15%
  • Increased buckling load by 80%
  • Increased mass by 6%

Hydroformed lower rail

  • Reduced peak force by 30%
  • Increased energy absorption by 100%
  • Reduced weight by 20%
  • Resulted in an overall crash response equivalent of five-star rating