Complex Systems

Complex system design can only be delivered successfully when a close knit multidisciplinary team works together cooperatively to balance and blend inputs from all the relevant capability areas.

At DCA this way of working is a natural consequence of our organisational structure, which encourages our staff to reach out across the traditional inter-disciplinary barriers.

Targeted application of technology

To gain real market traction technology must be implemented appropriately in response to genuine user needs. Additional features and functionality that serve no useful purpose will simply clutter and confuse.

Gaining a deep understanding and thorough appreciation of the user’s requirements from a product is an essential starting point. How we exploit and combine new technologies to deliver against these requirements is the key to providing a differentiated product proposition that successfully addresses your target users’ needs and desires.

Multidisciplinary working

At the heart of this anti-counterfeiting product is a highly sensitive optical reader system capable of distinguishing very low signal levels in highly electronically noisy environments.

The electronics and software required to achieve this are tightly packaged into a compact casework whose form was driven primarily by the ergonomic requirements of the reader. This could only be achieved by designing the casework interactively in parallel with the electronic component placement decisions and the PCB assembly layout.

Drives and mechanisms

We are renowned for the ingenuity, reliability and robustness of our designs for mechanisms and electro-mechanical drives.

Creativity and inspirational thinking are the essential starting point, so we recruit only the best, most innovative engineers and deploy a range of tailored creative thinking techniques.

Developing and optimising a great concept requires detailed theoretical analysis using mathematical modelling, computer simulation and tolerance analysis tools in combination with the construction and testing of physical rigs and prototypes.