i4pd is a full service product design consultancy, who's experienced team provides the complete range of design and development support. Whether it is the integration of one, two or all the disciplines on offer, their highly experienced team of project managers, designers and engineers can complement your in-house expertise to deliver projects on time and budget. Explore their services to learn more about what i4pd can bring to each stage of your product development journey.

Operations Management for an Electronics SME in Scotland.Project Managed the ground up restoration of Grade II listed home in Edinburgh’s New Town

As Field Application Specialist and Trainer my primary focus is helping clients make their chosen Heidelberg Engineering Imaging solutions a clinical and commercial success through education and training, whilst always maintaining focus on the best possible patient outcomes.

Heidelberg Engineering is a high tech medical device company which designs, manufactures, and distributes diagnostic instruments for eye care professionals. Early recognition of disease helps to delay and prevent the most common causes of blindness.Heidelberg’s core technologies include confocal microscopy, scanning lasers and optics, optical coherence tomography and software image analysis.

Providing contracted Customer and Technical support to a capital equipment manufacturer.Providing IT support to a number of small companies and business professionals.Project Managing one off construction and renovation projects.

London based company that design, manufacture and support bespoke high tech Automated Optical Inspection equipment for the Electronics industry.• Worked from home and, often on own initiative, to provide International remote and on-site Applications, Engineering and Training support. • Successfully delivered Technical Sales presentations and Product Demonstrations, often processing customer supplied CAD data and testing complex jobs that were difficult for the customer. • Provided the technical communications link between the Customer and our Sales, R&D and Manufacturing teams. Assessed customer technological roadmaps to help determine and drive R&D direction and priorities.• A key member of the Applications development team, rigorously testing highly complex and technically demanding projects to ensure they were fully functional, delivered on time and to specification.• Provided proactive on-site negotiation, support and service to recover a large proportion of lost business in USA.

A very high speed subcontract service provider based near Manchester, manufacturing high density multilayer PCBs with turnarounds in hours.• Responsible for improving the manufacturing performance through; process optimisation & development; installation of new products and processes; finding & implementing cost reductions.• Provided diplomatic on-site customer support and drive to help a number of key customers find solutions to overcome a variety of sensitive technical challenges; allowing several to take large steps forward.• Led the Trade Association’s ISO 14001 Work Group as chairman. Defined and negotiated group training and an on-site support package for the membership.• Negotiated and achieved effluent discharge improvement time scale with Water Company; using Water Company to provide the Quality Review to ensure compliance.• Successfully turned around a major project at an Italian sister company.

A warehousing and distribution service provider to the Burton Group Multiples.• Managed a team responsible for goods receipt, their announcement to the system and their location at the pick faces.• Increased existing facility’s capacity by 20%, improving accessibility and flow of goods.• Introduced Supplier Monitors enabling tighter supplier control by Division.

Provided high speed electronic package prototyping service to the Electronics Industry.• Responsible for the management and development of all engineering activities.• Successfully restructured the engineering function, introduced Configuration Management to gain control and increased capacity while reducing response times.• Managed customer/supplier communications and all subcontracted work.

Manufactured high technology Flexible Printed Circuits serving IT, Communications, Avionics and Defence sectors. • I progressed rapidly with this company from process operator, through supervisor and several engineering positions:• Managed the production throughput of several manufacturing departments, the Process Engineering function and provided customer Technical Support.• Successfully undertook key Design for Manufacture Projects, including one with a French client, improved productivity & quality whilst significantly reducing unit costs and increasing profitability.• Delivered Technical Sales presentations to existing & potential new Customers resulting in significant new orders.