Are you a development or process engineer looking to optimise your product or process through data-driven experimentation? Are you open to working with an Engineering Development Services partner? At Product Development Engineers Ltd, we focus on helping you generate critical data and extract clear insights — accelerating your decision-making process.
Don’t let guesswork slow you down. We help you design experiments, specify test equipment, and interpret results, so you can confidently optimise your products and processes.
Our development and process optimisation services support you through every stage:
- Feasibility Studies: Advising on proof-of-concept testing to validate initial ideas and concepts early, so you can move forward with confidence.
- Design Improvement Testing: Supporting the generation and analysis of performance data to drive informed design decisions.
- Pre-Launch Validation: Helping you structure validation testing and analyse results to ensure production readiness and minimise risk.
At each step, we provide expert advice and guidance — ensuring your experiments are planned, executed, and interpreted effectively to move your project forward.
Smarter Experimental Design with DoE
For anything beyond the simplest projects, systematic and controlled experimentation is essential to understand what truly drives performance.
We are experts in Design of Experiments (DoE) – creating structured test plans that maximise learning from every trial. Our role is to guide you in designing efficient experiments and support you in analysing the data, ensuring you make confident, data-driven decisions.
We offer a full range of DoE consulting and experimental planning services to tackle complex challenges:
- Screening Experiments:
When you have a large number of variables with unknown influence, we advise on efficient screening strategies to identify the factors that matter most. For example, we might recommend using a Definitive Screening Design to pinpoint key parameters (and flag any critical interactions early) or a Plackett–Burman design when interactions are less of a concern.
We support you in developing the test plan and provide guidance for data collection and analysis to determine the significance of each factor and recommend appropriate next steps. - Factorial & Response Surface Designs:
Once minor factors are ruled out, we guide you through deeper investigations into critical variables.
Depending on your objectives, we may advise the use of a full or fractional factorial experiment or an advanced response surface design such as a Central Composite or Box-Behnken design.
We help you construct experimental matrices and prepare for data analysis, so you can map out factor interactions, reveal any non-linear effects, and identify the optimal settings for your process. - Mixture Designs:
If your work involves formulations — blending ingredients or materials — we support you in planning efficient mixture experiments.
We help select appropriate strategies (such as simplex lattice or constrained mixture designs) to ensure you explore different combinations effectively.
With our guidance, you can quickly understand how each component affects performance and work towards the best possible formulation. - Robustness Studies & Taguchi Methods:
When consistency and reliability are key, we advise on implementing robust parameter designs based on Taguchi methods.
We support you in designing experiments that vary noise factors and controllable parameters, helping you find optimal settings that minimise variability and ensure consistent real-world performance.
Throughout all stages, we work alongside your team — designing experimental plans, supporting test setup, and analysing your collected data.
We ensure you generate meaningful results efficiently, without overcomplicating your studies or wasting valuable resources.
Our focus is on turning your experimental effort into clear, practical insights that drive smarter engineering decisions.
Testing Equipment Specification and Validation Support
While you run the experiments, we provide:
- Custom Test Equipment Specification & Design:
We specify and design custom test rigs and fixtures as needed to support your experiments. (Procurement, assembly, and commissioning are then handled by you or your selected partners.) - Testing Guidance:
We advise on experimental procedures, recommend instrumentation, and provide support to help ensure your testing generates valid and reliable data. - Comprehensive Test Documentation:
We help define clear testing procedures and contribute to thorough documentation of results.
After your tests are conducted, we perform detailed analysis and reporting to translate your findings into actionable engineering insights.
By working alongside your in-house team, we help ensure that your experiments are designed, executed, and interpreted for maximum impact — without taking over execution itself.
LabVIEW-Based Test Software Development
When automated data collection or advanced control is needed, we provide:
- Software & Hardware Specification:
We design custom LabVIEW-based software applications tailored to your test requirements, alongside specification of any supporting hardware. - Automated Data Acquisition and Analysis Tools:
We develop systems that automate the capture of sensor and instrumentation data, enabling high-frequency sampling, improved repeatability, and real-time visualisation where required. - Support During Testing:
We provide support to integrate software and hardware into your experimental setup, and assist with troubleshooting to ensure smooth testing operations.
Our solutions help streamline your experiments, increase data reliability, and free up your team’s time for higher-value engineering work.
Ready to Accelerate Your Project?
Time and quality are critical in product development.
Don’t let inefficient experiments or unclear data hold back your progress.
With our expert guidance, you can design smarter experiments, generate the right data, and make better-informed engineering decisions — faster.
Contact us today to discuss how we can support your next project — from intelligent experimental design to insightful data analysis.
Let’s turn your engineering challenges into results — together.
Want to See How We Approach DoE Projects?
If you would like to better understand how we support engineering teams with Design of Experiments (DoE) planning, data analysis, and process optimisation, watch the video below.
In this short presentation, we walk through key DoE principles and show how structured experimentation leads to faster, more reliable product and process improvements.
Video: How to Plan and Analyse Effective Design of Experiments (DoE) for Engineering Projects
By combining smart experimental design, practical data interpretation, and deep process understanding, we help development and process engineers make better decisions, faster.
Whether you are scaling up a product, troubleshooting a process, or optimising an existing system, our DoE consultancy services are designed to support your success.
Ready to put data to work for your project?
Contact us today and let’s discuss how our expert guidance can help you achieve more with your experiments.