Art Steinhobel

Entrepreneurial Industrial Design and Product Development Globally Steinhobel Design’s mission is to design products for their clients, which will vastly increase profitability and market share, through their excellence. Steinhobel Design (Pty) Ltd is an industrial design and product development consultancy which serves diverse industries namely electronic, packaging, appliances / white goods, mining, medical, furniture, pharmaceutical, automotive, sports equipment, information technology products and many others. These clients span Asia, Europe and the Americas. Solving design problems in this broad variety of industries, incorporating different materials and technologies allows for effective cross-pollination of technology transfer in the design solutions. This also allows for a high level of lateral thinking in the process of creating innovative product development with the appropriate material or combination of materials and technologies. The studio has in-depth experience of plastic injection moulding design, pressure die-cast aluminium design, extrusion design and bottle / container design as well as many other production processes. The company uses the highest level of technological equipment available to execute the design process, it is a combination of Siemens NX | Catia CAD SEATS/ interfacing with CAM computer modelling and other systems. With various rapid prototyping processes. This system allows for concurrent engineering and product development, which significantly compresses product development cycles and lead time to market. The software facilitates a diverse range of scientific analysis during development in the form of finite and rheological (mould flow) analyses. References