Seminars and Workshops

Interested in learning new engineering tools and techniques that can be used in day-to-day engineering development work?

STEEN Solutions offers several topics to be provided as a seminar or a custom workshop that focuses on the industry and products for the respective customer. Depending on the topic and customer desire, seminars and workshops can be arranged for a day up to two weeks

STEEN Solutions currently offers our insight and expertise in the following topics:

Conceptual Design –Discovering the entire solution space

It is well-known that 80% of allocated cost for a new project is determined within the first 20% of the design process – also known as the conceptual design phase. Despite this fact, most companies today are often too quick to choose a design concept to move forward with rather than exploring the entire solution space.

This topic focuses on the area of conceptual design and explores various techniques for discovering the solution space, leveraging building block break-down methods, innovative problem discovery techniques, and other tools to help define the best concept for the given product requirements.

Tolerance Analysis – A statistical approach to eliminating design problems

When designing products with interfacing parts, ensuring a controlled assembly process is critical for proper assembly and product functionality.

This topic focuses on the area of design tolerances. Internal design tolerances and external design tolerances can be driving worst-case analysis, RSS analysis, or – for more complex assemblies and internal designs – MC analysis.

Structured Problem Solving - A means to quick and accurate resolution

When producing products in any volume, problems can arise. If you have run into a problem and need help root causing the issue and subsequently fixing the issue, STEEN Solutions can help.

This topic focuses on how to solve and fix technical problems in a structured way using various techniques with well-defined steps. This is an invaluable process to understand and utilize for any engineering team who deals with problems around products or processes.

Product Testing – How to get the most out of experimental testing

Testing of prototypes is a common activity in the product development cycle. But how much are you getting out of your prototype testing that you can use to improve the product quality, making the product even better? How many customer returns do you have?

This topic focuses on the area of prototype and product testing; Types of prototypes, purposes of prototypes, how to design statistically sound tests and experiments, how to interpret the data analysis, and finally how to implement the data knowledge in the product design.