Sometimes that means helping them with small, specific parts of their developments – providing new ideas or fresh thinking – and sometimes it means taking full turnkey product developments from initial concept to volume manufacture.
We do a lot more than you might think.
We can add value by facilitating creative workshops, by helping our clients to get around competitors’ patents, ensuring that medical devices meet regulatory standards, developing demonstrators to impress investors or by helping clients to win funding for future development work.
We help our clients to address a wide range of far-reaching and valuable challenges and opportunities. For example:
We typically take on projects that are technically challenging, highly collaborative, require innovative solutions and multidisciplinary. They are also ambitious and aspirational, of high value but constrained by commercial realities.
No matter the stage of your product development process, 42T can work with your team to provide immediate benefits.
We are particularly strong in these technical areas, all underpinned by core science and engineering capabilities:
Insights from 42T’s teams in key areas of expertise:
Designing products and processes for a green future without sacrificing the needs of users, stakeholders or assets, by reducing the use of materials, driving reuse and recycling, or completely reimagining products. This includes:
The global imperative for net zero carbon emissions brings challenges and opportunities in product manufacture, industrial processes and power generation. We know that implementing this scale of upgrade isn’t straightforward, often involving significant investment and carrying high risk of cost and quality degradation. Our clients leverage our experience and cross sector insight to help them identify and implement technology developments which enable significant ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) advances. We support clients with challenges such as:
We develop internet-connected devices that collect and transmit data through innovative sensing systems. Connectedness has become a critical enabler, enhancing the capabilities of equipment, plant and devices, and unlocking essential approaches like Just In Time, servitisation, automation, and Industry 4.0. We typically support our clients by:
Whether the challenge is blue sky product innovation or a more targeted technical problem, we bring a first-rate toolkit of innovation processes to the table. We tackle these creative challenges with a structured approach that allows us to generate ideas that elude others. But we’re not just about clever ideas: clients depend on our exceptional proof of principle skills to make strong technical concepts work both in the lab and commercially.
We’ve proved again and again that we can invent on demand and create valuable intellectual property, whether we’re developing a new product, defending an existing one, or ingeniously working around competitor IP.
Whilst the majority of focus is often given to the design of new innovative products, we maintain the view that new products can only be viable if they are supported by effective and sustainable manufacturing processes. This is why process innovation and improvement is a major part of our work. We spend significant time considering topics such as:
The global healthcare market is undergoing a period of rapid innovation, the speed of which is unmatched in any other sector. Preventative care through early diagnosis and lifestyle devices are improving patient wellbeing, keeping people outside of clinics. Secondary care is now taking place remotely, allowing conditions to be managed within the patient’s own home. Healthcare inequality is finally being actioned with underrepresented patient groups being provided with better treatment pathways. We are at the forefront of healthcare innovation and support our clients with:
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