Nicholas
Lead Industrial Designer
Nicholas is a lead industrial designer at RAAK. He works at the point where design meets engineering: part architecture, tolerances, enclosures and design for manufacturing.
Design for repair: what it costs and what it is worth
Repairability is becoming a regulation in Europe and a selling point everywhere. What it changes in a design, what it adds to the unit cost, and where it pays back.
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How to prepare a product for injection moulding
The rules we apply to every moulded part before a tool is quoted, and the three mistakes we see most often in CAD that arrives from elsewhere.
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Die casting, sheet metal or moulded plastic: choosing the enclosure process
The enclosure process is usually decided by volume, heat and feel. A short guide to the trade-offs we walk through on every electronics product.
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Tolerances: the conversation that saves the most money
Most part cost is decided by what you ask the factory to guarantee. How to decide which dimensions matter and let the rest go.
Nicholas