With access to our innovative technology you can develop your next product, transfer technology from another sector and even enable incremental product improvements.
How do we give you a competitive advantage?
At Plextek, we have a proven track record of transforming innovative concepts into real-world solutions with precision and efficiency. Our process is precisely designed to guide your idea through every stage.
Partnering with Plextek means engaging with a technology consultancy that brings decades of advanced engineering experience to your project.
How can we help?
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Design
Our design team can contribute specialist technical expertise, temporarily extend your team, assist with rapid development or concept development, proof-of-concept and feasibility, prototype development, testing and iteration and even transfer to manufacture.
Deliver
Plextek compliment your existing team providing technical problem solving and reduce risk for speculative developments.
The Process Journey
From these decades of experience, we recognise that the approaches, capabilities, and systems required to succeed in front-end strategic activities are different to those required to deliver complex engineering solutions. That’s why we have two complementary teams to partner with you throughout your innovation journey: Ignite Exponential our strategic innovation and design team; and Plextek, our extensive teams of experienced, specialist engineers.
Organisational Capability
How do we Innovate?
There is no universal way to innovate. Our team brings together decades of experience from 100s of strategic innovation collaborations with other global leaders. This means we’re well placed to act as a critical friend to bring a fresh, objective outside perspective and help you develop the right innovation approach.
And when our own experience is insufficient, we facilitate collaborative learning exchanges to allow your team to learn from non-competing corporate leaders and robust your own strategy and delivery.
Innovation Strategy
Our considerable cross-industry strategic innovation expertise enables us to explore customer needs and growth opportunities in new markets with a fresh and independent perspective.
And our integrated, multi-disciplinary team helps understand potential disruptions (whether customer, market or technological) and to systematically explore the potential of new technologies and business models.
Concept Design and Development
What do we design? Our customer research and creative industrial design team allow us to quickly explore new opportunities; and our integration with Plextek’s engineering team ensures these solutions are feasible by design.
We explore new concepts, develop new designs, systematically investigate new business models, create proof of concepts and validate solutions to de-risk development before engineering begins.
Technology Feasibility
How well can it work?
Our multi-disciplinary engineering experience from developing hundreds of other systems in other industries means we’re well placed to help you to rapidly evaluate the potential and feasibility of a new technical design or system.
Our method integrates concept generation, precise concept mapping, and the application of the Pugh Matrix for evaluative clarity. We carefully document user requirements to ensure alignment with the target audience’s needs, alongside defining functional requirements that stipulate system performance and operational criteria. This approach is supported by feasibility studies, risk assessments, and prototyping, ensuring we can solve engineering challenges with innovation and precision.
Proof of Concept
How will it work best?
Our dedicated facilities allow us to rapidly develop tangible proof-of-concepts/prototypes onsite – and our skilled team are able to systematically test, analyse and improve on these designs including manufacturing short term product/component orders for specialty systems.
Our rapid proof-of-concept strategy blends technical expertise with inventiveness, ensuring the development of prototypes that are robust, scalable, and manufacturable. From 3D printed components to complex electronic assemblies, we employ the latest technologies to materialise your ideas.
Technology Development
How can we make it work?
Once the preferred or optimal solution is clear we can develop complete products and systems – from the whiteboard to the market – whilst ensuring integrity for the whole system.
Manufacturing & Supply
How can we make it?
The journey of every successful project starts with a robust foundation. Our team of skilled engineers works closely with clients to turn their visions into practical products, incorporating design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA) from start to finish. Utilising our comprehensive set of design tools and advanced simulation software, we ensure that your product not only meets but exceeds expectations.
Ongoing support
What’s next?
We take our client relationships seriously. When a project ends, we don’t disappear. This is why customers consider us to be their trusted design and long-term delivery partner for projects with multiple phases and work packages.
Our comprehensive approach
Our experience shows the right approach to a project can make all the difference between failure and success.
Your strategy, design and engineering teams all innovate, but for transformation innovation much can be lost in translation between consulting reports, internal departments and final specifications. That’s where we help.
Our breadth of experience in antenna design, high-frequency electronics and digital signal processing means we are world leaders in low size, weight and power (low-SWaP) RF communications, radar and sensing systems, including critical condition monitoring and predictive maintenance systems.
From technical feasibility and proof-of-concept, through product design and technical development to manufacturing and supply – Plextek has an end-to end capability to support your needs – so let’s talk.
Quality Assurance and Accreditation
Quality underpins all our activities. Plextek is certified to BS EN ISO9001:2015 and 13485:2016 and utilises a comprehensive Quality Management System (QMS) to maintain high standards across our projects. Our dedication to excellence is consistent, regardless of project scope.
ISO 9001:2015
Quality Management – certified to BS EN ISO9001:2015
ISO 13485:2016
Quality Management for Medical Devices – certified to BS EN ISO13485:2016
Joscar
Stage 2 Membership Accreditation
Cyber Essentials Plus
Membership Accreditation
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