About Us

IAS Machine Design is a consulting company. We provide 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 get their prototype to market, 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 will take your idea and develop it into a working product that is ready for serial production. More importantly, we can develop your idea into something that's patentable, and defendable.  

Depending on your needs, we can provide expertise for only a section of your project, or we can take your entire project and handle the development all the way to market.

Our founder is an expert at FEA simulation. He has extensive experience in complex analysis such as masts, chassis, combined machine elements, hyper-elastic expansion of elastomers, multi-stage flow of elastomers, metallic/ceramic composites and laminates, hyper-plastic deformation of metals, etc.

We specialize in hyper-elastic simulation of elastomers in extreme environments with extreme expansions. We can even analyze composite elastomers that are reinforced by plate arrays, latices, mesh, or fibers.  These are very difficult to simulate, but we can do them. 

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 are a great option. But they are statically indeterminate and highly dependent on the boundary conditions of the simulation - which requires good judgment. These lattice 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.