2018 Irish Enterprise Award

EU BUSINESS NEWS / 2018 Irish Enterprise Awards A Contact Details Company: Bartek Design Ltd Contact: Barry Lyons - Managing Director Address: Office 15, Unit 1, North Park, North Road, Finglas, D11 E6C3, Ireland Website: www.bdl.consulting.com Best Pharmaceutical Engineering Consultancy 2018 g form surfacing software, we have recently invested in Mould Rheology software, or fluid dynamics. We use this software to prove out our plastic part designs before they go to production tooling. This is a key advantage to have over other design houses, and it is my mould design and injection moulding background experience that has been key in implementing this in our company. This rolls onto the fact that I come from a manufacturing background, so I can design parts that can be manufactured, therefore cutting down on the Design for Manufacturing (DFM) process, and thus having faster product design lead times to market. I pass on this experience to my design team in regular product design reviews and training. “Another technology that we have started to use intensively is 3D printing and Laser Sintering. I have used Laser Sintering for years to produce conformal cooling in injection mould tools. Now days, we use the technology to 3D print all our product designs to test and develop them for Mechanical and Fit and Function movements prior to proceeding to hard tooling. This technology has helped us immensely, and its use has drastically cut the cost of prototype tooling and development lead times to our customers, highlighting the benefits of staying at the very cutting edge of technological developments.” Alongside technology, Barry firmly believes in supporting his staff, as they are central to ensuring excellence for his clients. As such, he is eager to explain the internal culture in his company and how this helps drive new ideas and innovations. “Internally we are being primarily an ‘ideas’ firm. We like to promote ‘Imagineering’ and to make it ‘Enjoyneering’ for the staff. To stay ahead of your competitors, you need to think outside the box and be creative with your solutions. These are the ideas and culture that I nurture with the staff in the firm. They are always surprised, at how I so readily come up solutions for designs that they think can never be solved, but they are young, pro- active and eager to learn, and I enjoy nurturing them. On the technical side we try to keep up to date with all the relative software tools and hardware and business practises for our business requirements.” Looking to the future, Barry is keen to drive continued innovation in BDL.consulting, helping to support an even wider range of clients, as he is proud to conclude. “Moving forward, I would like to grow the company to increase the service capacity for more product design, as well as structural analysis, laboratory product development and testing. This would be a turnkey product development service for customers who are cutting back on these internal skills, as well as a good service to those customers who cannot afford them in house. These developments will provide BDL. consulting with a means to continue to grow and flourish.”