Engineering that survives contact with the real world.
Enevate is an engineering and industrial design consultancy. With seven disciplines in one closely connected team, we build ambitious, multidisciplinary prototypes fast.
We work with companies building physical products that have to survive load, weather, vibration and users. From a first sketch to a design package a factory can build from.
Most products fail in the gaps between disciplines.
A control board that can’t survive the vibration of the frame it’s bolted to. A mechanism that works perfectly until the firmware misses a step. A structure built twice as heavy as it needs to be, because nobody trusted the load case.
None of these are electronics problems, or software problems, or mechanical problems. They are interface problems, and they surface late, during integration, which is exactly when they are most expensive to fix.
We keep all seven disciplines under one roof so those interfaces have an owner from the first week. The hard trade-offs get made deliberately and early, by people who can see both sides of them.
Seven disciplines.
Most of our projects use three or more of them at once. That is rather the point.
Software
Code that behaves under load.
Embedded firmware, real-time control, and the tooling around it. We write the code that runs on the hardware we design, the operator interface (GUI) it gets driven through, and the logging, telemetry and test automation that prove it works.
Mechatronics
Where the disciplines meet.
Actuation, sensing, control and structure treated as one system. This is where projects usually get expensive, and where having every discipline in one room pays for itself.
Aerospace
Things that have to fly.
Aerodynamics, airflow sensing, flight loads, stability and the lightweight structures that carry them. Mostly atmospheric rather than orbital: kites, wings, parachutes, tethered systems and unmanned aircraft, where aerodynamics and structure have to be designed against each other.
Electronics
Schematic to certified board.
Analogue and digital electronics for products that have to work outside the lab: power electronics, sensor front-ends, motor drives and embedded control, through EMC pre-compliance, bring-up and production test.
Controls
Making the loop behave.
Modelling the plant, designing the loop and tuning it against the hardware you actually have rather than the one in the model, then proving it stays stable when the load, the temperature or the wear moves.
Mechanics
Structures, mechanisms, and the loads they carry.
Load-bearing structures, precision mechanisms and housings, designed for the loads they will actually see and for the process that will make them. CAD, FEA and design for manufacture.
Load-bearing textiles
Ropes, fabrics, wings and parachutes.
A rare specialism: engineering with flexible materials that carry real load. Tensile membranes, inflatable and ram-air wings, parachutes, harnesses, tethers and high-strength rope systems, including the terminations that decide whether they last.
Three sizes of help.
Not every problem needs a full development programme. Sometimes it needs two weeks and a straight answer.
Full project
End-to-end ownership. We take the problem from requirements through concept, detailed design and testing, and hand back a package a manufacturer can build from.
Typical: 3–12 months
Embedded specialist
The discipline you are missing, working inside your team and your tools, by the day or the week. Useful when you have the project under control but not the head count.
Typical: 1–3 days per week
Design review
A fixed-scope second opinion on a design you already have. We look for the failure modes, the cost traps and the things that will not certify, then write it down.
Typical: 2 weeks, one report
A conversation with an engineer,
not a salesperson.
Bring a problem, a sketch, or a product that is not behaving. We will tell you what we think is hard about it, what we would do first, and whether we are the right team, before any money changes hands.
- An honest read on whether it is a fit
- Where the technical risk actually sits
- A rough order of magnitude for time and cost
- A written summary afterwards, yours to keep