TipoD: engineering services

TipoD gathers specialized Engineering services for research and development of products, machines and equipments. We develop technologies under contract, also license the use of our own products and also plan and execute R&D Projects with Companies and Academy. We counted on specialized engineers' teams in mechanics, robotics, electronics and software. Our work is focused in technological segments of the industry; telecommunications (ADSL, Satellite, Bluetooth), health (physiotherapy and life support), electric power, (generation, distribution, administration, diagnosis and maintenance) capital goods (project of machines), computer science (administration systems, software-embarked) and transformation (injection of polymeric). We acted in an integrated way from the project planning to the production, under simultaneous engineering tasks, in order to guarantee the quality and the specifications of the project.

Services:
1. CAD-CAE Modeling;
2. Structure Analyses;
3. Fluid Dynamics and Analyses;
4. International Broking for Components, Tools and Plants;

TipoD: Industrial Design Services

TipoD gathers specialized services of industrial design and branding for the industry and market overall. We develop products under contract and also license our own products production. We acted with the big holistic picture vision allying the design, marketing, engineering and production to offer specialized services beginning-to-end; from the product planning to the discard and recycling. We act in diversified technological segments and styles, such as: computer science, automotive, electronics, health, tools, furniture and houseware.

Services:
1. Product Design;
2. Product Style;
3. CAD Modeling and Rendering;
4. Human Factors;
5. Corporate Branding;
6.Strategic Design

TipoD: our methodology and processes

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We use modern methodologies for the development of businesses, products and services in synchrony with the global tendencies and in agreement with the regional needs. We study, analyze and diagnose each case to elaborate the best action plan. Intelligence to anticipate and an innovative-efficient implementation are our main characteristics in projects drifted in several technologic, market and economic scenarios.

Strategic Products Planning
The Portfolio of Product and Services are elaborated to aid business decision. It contains several parameters for the beginning of the business and engineering project's planning, such as market, technology and macro-economy information. This is the first level of the entire endeavor; the result is a Project Charter document.

Project Planning
The Project Charter is detailed according to international standards (PMBOK) to meet business requirements: method, human resources, financial resources, installations, laboratories, hardware infrastructure, acquisitions and all the product/service life cycle activities are anticipated and detailed until every human-machine work package. All needed scenarios are simulated using GANTT-CPM-PERT tools in order to have the best one selected and to have guaranteed all the enterprise requirements as well.

Information Project
The green light is on: the first effort of the development has been started, now all the rules, regulations, user behavior, marketing research, engineering standards, style, human factors and every data mining related to the design itself are analyzed, processed and validated using modern project technologies such as QFD, Kano, FTA, FMEA and others to meet stakeholders needs and business requirements. The result of this process is the product specification chart along with its goals, financial, market and consumer detailed information.

Concept Project
The specifications goals are projected into many technical solutions that could allow an equipment to operate in the selected specification, planned quality, efficiency and cost range. The further alternatives selection are conducted by using a pre-selected path (DXF) that aid the team to focus altogether to the same focus. At the end of this phase several technological and aesthetic architectures are reached with along with its models and mockups.

Preliminary and Detailed project
In this phase, the concept of the product turns from the abstraction to reality. The mechanical, electronics and aesthetic concepts are transformed in dimensional greatness with functions that synthesize the needs and requirements of the project. Like this, an entire effort of joining different knowledge areas that act direct and indirectly on the product life cycle is necessary to product harmony. The main characteristics of this phase are: intense modeling CAD, evaluation CAE to simulate efforts, prototypes and tests. At the end of this phase, all the pieces that compose the product are measured and materials are specified simultaneously with industrial processes.

Preparation for Production
The success of a product depends on the process of implementation acquisition of materials, production and assembly. Like so, it's crucial that the product design and industrial process are adjusted so that the planned quality is reached at the estimated cost. It is exaggerated to imagine that all possible strategic and tactical scenarios have been foreseen in the initial stages of a project and aren't going to change on the following weeks. Specifications not fully reviewed, last hour modification onto design, supplier change, material price, currency change and even inclusion of additional functions, among other difficulties are always present in the process of product development. Therefore, a special attention in this implementation moment is necessary, or costs and time to market are going to drastically increase.

Use and Operation
A period of time established to commercialize the product and/or service. It is done the supervision of the commercial success during this life cycle phase along with many other parameters already established. TipoD if necessary does the necessary redesign of processes and/or components to accomplish a desirable optimization.

Maintenance
In the product life cycle, its durability and reliability are always requirements that impact in the costumer's perception of quality and also can decrease the profit in the commercial process. The easiness for accomplishment of maintenance of the product is designed and managed from the initial phases of the product development.

Discontinuance
TipoD plans the process of product/service discontinuance in earlier project phases, so that, it can be a smoother procedure with minor losses to final costumers and supply chain. The remaining parts and components for distribution are estimated using reliability data processed during the commercial life cycle.

Recycling
A process planned during R&D stages to be executed concurrent with the product life cycle. This process guaranties that parts and components can be transformed again in raw materials and produces no undesirable residual wastes to the environment. A list of recycling plants is also developed if a product has a special need for materials or dangerous parts.

TipoD: The innovative product development company

TIPOD
We are specialists to foresee and to execute innovative projects for the industry and market. We noticed the desires and needs of the society, and through data, information and also the knowledge of the organizations in businesses we transform longings and desires in real products and services. We drift, research, execute, manage, finish and validate operations that involve projects of businesses, products and services. We know What have to be done, How it have to be implemented and with the urgency sense of When it should be executed.

OUR HISTORY
The essence of the company appeared in the search for innovation, where in 1999 three students of Industrial Design at UnB - Universidade Brasília, celebrated an R&D Project around automotive technology. Project executed for more than 4 years through the agreement among FIAT Automóveis S.A & UnB, in that year the fundamental stone was thrown in the search by the technology and innovation.

In 2001, legally formalized, TipoD was open in order to assist the demand on the development of products for high-tech companies in Brasília. The following years it focused in the technological development of products and it became a strategic partner of companies and national research institutes developing businesses, products and services in international extent.

Already in 2004 TipoD expanded its physical borders from the Brazilian Middle-West and fixed a branch office in Florianópolis. This way it was possible to assist with larger agility the Middle-West areas, South and Southeast of Brazil.

Now, TipoD has two business units: one in Brasília-DF and the other in Florianópolis-SC, that together assist with agility and personalized touch, customers and partners in the whole country and abroad.

Today, we are industry partners for the strategic planning of products and still as product designers for our customers, acting with several lines of Brazilian fiscal incentives, all with technological innovation focus.

Due to our specialization in technology and strategic alliances, we will be licensing in the next months; technologies, integration solutions, products and businesses for the market and industry.

TIPOD´S TEAM
Intelligence, synchrony, focus and creativity are the professional's outstanding characteristic that composes our research and development group. We rely on professionals from several disciplines and competences in our units, which, in an interactive way, make possible the best arrangements of specialized human resources for our challenges. Electronic engineers, mechanical engineers, robotics engineers, industrial designers, software engineers, programmers and technicians are our team.

We also have the technological and logistics support of a global supply chain and strong strategic partners with companies and research all over Brazil, making possible innovative, efficient and effective solutions.

We structured our professionals in agreement with their specialties, and aptitudes in "Project Teams", multidisciplinary teams to overcome all the proposed challenges. This way, we obtain a team in synergy with the customers' needs and capable to operate in the most complex projects restrictions, in the most diversified segments of the industry and market overall.