01 What this is
The short version.
Product-development engineering that advances a concept to something a factory can actually make.
Industrial designers and manufacturing and mechanical engineers collaborate to turn innovative product concepts into production-ready CAD. The work is deliberately unromantic: a beautiful design that cannot be tooled at your volume is a liability.
Because White Lion sits alongside, design-for-manufacture is not a late review — it is a running conversation. Material availability, tooling cost and supplier capability shape the drawing while changing the drawing is still cheap.
- Typical engagement
- Feasibility study, design project, or embedded engineering
- Usual duration
- 6 weeks to 12 months
- Delivered by
- Aurea Engineering
- Handover
- Production-ready CAD, DFM report and inspection criteria
02 Scope
What sits inside the engagement.
The list below is the full working scope. Not every engagement uses all of it — the framing session decides which parts matter.
- Feasibility and concept development — Can it be made, at what volume, and at what cost per unit.
- Industrial design — Form, ergonomics and the decisions a customer will feel in their hand.
- Mechanical engineering — Tolerances, materials, loads and the failure modes that matter.
- CAD for production — Drawings a factory can quote from without a dozen clarifying emails.
- Prototyping — Fast, honest physical iterations before tooling money is committed.
- Design for manufacture (DFM) — Reducing part count, process steps and cost without losing the product.
- Production readiness — Sample approval, first-article inspection and the ramp plan.
03 How it runs
From brief to handover.
A repeatable sequence, so you always know which decision is next and who owns it.
Concept and feasibility
What the product must do, and whether it can be made economically.
Design and CAD
Industrial and mechanical design taken to production-ready drawings.
Prototype
Physical iterations, tested against the real use case.
DFM and handover
Cost-out review with sourcing, then a package a factory can build from.
04 Delivered by
Aurea Engineering
Product-development engineering advancing concepts through feasibility, CAD, prototyping, DFM and production readiness.
The company that turns a concept into drawings a factory can quote from without a dozen clarifying emails.
Aurea Engineering brings industrial designers together with manufacturing and mechanical engineers to advance product concepts into production-ready CAD. The path runs feasibility, design, prototyping, design for manufacture and production readiness.
- Feasibility and concept development
- Industrial design
- Mechanical engineering
- CAD for production
- Prototyping
- Design for manufacture and production readiness
05 Pairs well with
Rarely bought alone.
The capabilities most often sequenced alongside this one.
Supply
Sourcing & Manufacturing
Comprehensive sourcing — run before a single unit ships.
ExploreSystems
Technology Consulting
Choose and prove the technology the next stage actually requires — evaluated against your operations, not a vendor's roadmap.
ExploreCapital
Funding Guidance
Evaluate every financing route available to the venture, then make the introductions that matter.
ExploreThe next conversation
What does the venture
need next?
Bring us the ambition, the constraint, and the stage you are navigating. If the foundry is the right shape for it, we'll say so — and if it isn't, we'll tell you that too.
Field view
The work behind
Engineering Design.
Strategy earns trust when it stays connected to real people, visible work and accountable execution.
