About Us

IAS Machine Design provides design services to companies that are developing a new technology. 

We answer the hard questions that others aren't prepared to answer - or haven't been able to answer. 

Sometimes, a concept or prototype isn't moving forward, despite years of work. Sometimes, highly skilled people are hard to find. 

We help companies overcome their bottleneck, expand their market segment, obtain new IP,  persuade investors, and ultimately find a path to generating revenue.

Our founder is a mechanical engineer with 20 years of product-development experience, 5 successful patents, and has a track record of turning around projects that aren't moving forward.  

We can help overcome the bottleneck that is limiting your product growth - whether it is the core product itself, or the non-core peripherals that no one thinks about. 

Our ingenuity can find new solutions that you didn't think about - or maybe you did but thought it was too difficult to solve. 

We are experts at complicated FEA simulations. We solve  problems that are difficult (or impractical) to simulate - and sometimes can't be simulated directly. 

We specialize in hard to simulate problems such as hyper-expansion of reinforced elastomers, multi-stage reinforcement of elastomers and composites under elasto-plastic flow, metallic/ceramic composites and laminates with creep, controlled hyper-plastic deformation of metals, statically indeterminate lattice structures, etc.

We use specialized FEA software that go beyond what common simulation packages are capable of. 

Ultra-compact designs can be achieved with multi-stage mechanisms. Additionally, combined machine elements can be integrated to serve a dual purpose plus contribute to the mechanism. This creates designs that are unusually capable for their size.

As counter-intuitive as it is, sometimes the best tool to design a mechanism is a series of vector diagrams in 2D CAD software. For statically-indeterminate mechanisms (such as cycloids), this may even be the only option. 

For ultra-light-weight applications, lattice structures and sandwich structures are a great option. But they are statically indeterminate and highly dependent on the boundary conditions of the simulation - which requires good judgment. These structures can be used to tune the input response, vibration curves, and physical performance, meaning you don't need to add those extra parts to the design.