2018 Irish Enterprise Award

22 EU BUSINESS NEWS / 2018 Irish Enterprise Awards , Best Pharmaceutical Engineering Consultancy 2018 Bartek Design Ltd, now trading as BDL.Consulting, is a provider of project management, technical engineering and design assurance consulting services to the product design, product development andmedical device manufacturing industry. We caught up with theirManging Director, Barry Lyons, to gain an absorbing insight into the firmand the services it offers. firm is now the sales and referral agents for a Quality Management Software system in Ireland called Greenlight. guru. Being resellers for this software give us good exposure to the Documentation and Quality side of the Product Development, V&V and Manufacturing Process validation. This is a good gate way for 510K and CE approvals for new products with the American FDA and European CE product certification and approval bodies. This knowledge broadens the firm’s scope of work and is another service that it gives to its valued customers. Barry discusses how the firm has evolved in more detail and outlines how he has driven change to ensure ongoing excellence for clients, including the company’s recent change of name. “Over the years I have found that, as a service orientated consultancy, I have had to constantly re-invent myself and my firm to keep up with the changes. When I started consulting in 2001, consulting in the Product Development and Process field was unheard of in Ireland. Ireland was slow to recognise consultants in this field of expertise, and as a result I spent most of my time abroad on contracts in Eastern Europe and Asia, working for US and Western European Corporations. It is only in the last 8 years, since the Pharmaceutical and Health Care industries have become big employers in Ireland, that contracting services have been recognised. Even now, the competition is tough, and you must fight hard to win business. “Evolution, re-invention and constantly upgrading the skillset is how we achieve this. For instance, we recently we renamed the company to “Bartek Design Ltd.consulting”, or BDL.consulting for short, using one of the new internet ‘dot’ domain names. Prior to this people thought that Bartek Design were interior, or fashion designers. By changing the name to something that had a medical reference, it has helped us attract more targeted business clients to our website www.bdl.consulting . “Fundamentally, I believe that the reasons for our success are many, but mainly down to pure hard graft with a dogged determination to succeed at any cost. Having 30 years or GBA17005 Bartek Design, as BDL.consulting was first called, was initially established to service the Plastic Injection Moulding Industry by designing Injection Mould Tools and Ancillary automation for production manufacturing of precision plastic components. The mould makers brought this work in-house and Bartek Design progressed into Product and Process Development, and on-site contract work. The firm later became very successful at taking Customer Product Designs, helping them to develop them for manufacturing, as well as implementing the manufacturing processes at the production facilities. Later, the company moved into the medical device sector and got involved in Product Design Development and Quality Assurance / Validations of the production equipment and processes. Today, the more experience in the Plastics Design and Manufacturing Industry, coupled with the knowledge of working with Global corporations across three continents, has all contributed to getting us where we are today. Having good work ethics, manners, respect for your clients and most importantly the skillset that they require are all very important attributes.” As part of this focus on innovation and evolution, Barry and his team are committed to using the latest technology to enhance the services they offer clients, as he is keen to highlight. “As part of our commitment to evolution and reinvention, as a company we embrace new technology and update our systems constantly. Apart from 3D modelling and free