Company

Mechanical Engineering Consulting Services
Apply Analytic Concepts LLC (dba Applycon) was organized in Minnesota as a full-service mechanical design and analysis company that specializes in providing finite element analysis (FEA) consulting services using the latest state-of-the-art software tools to design, manufacturing, and product development companies requiring its special capabilities. This involves primarily the process of failure discovery in failed, structural equipment and the generation of design options for improving new parts or assemblies that are subject to a particular load environment (predictive engineering). The FEA methods we employ are applicable to structures of any size, from small, solid-state, MEMS devices, biomedical implants and devices, to large, industrial, structures or machines.

Experienced Engineering Staff
Our engineering staff has over 28 years of experience successfully providing analytical, process, and design solutions to its clients. During that time, it has become very apparent that the finite element method is too frequently misapplied, most of the time involving erroneous assumptions of the problem state by the analyst, misapplication of the FEA method in general, and/or utilization of under-powered software tools. This leads, of course, to invalid results, which cloud engineering judgment and compromises the design's conformity to the real-world operating conditions, affecting costs and reliability downstream. For this reason Applycon is also involved in educating its clientele in the proper use of the FEA method.

Finite Element Analysis, Cutting Edge Techonology
Most companies should, but have not yet, successfully incorporated the proven finite element method into their engineering regimen for more thorough scrutiny of structural safety factors. In some cases, this is the only valid design verification avenue for the designer/manufacturer short of extensive and costly destructive testing. Even if hardware testing were affordable, measurement and data gathering by strain gage, accelerometer, and other methods can be impossible, due to space or accessibility limitations and extreme environmental operating conditions. Because the FEA method is a continually evolving practice ever dependent on more capable computers and software, industry approval bodies have not developed standards for FEA utilization.

If you think your project may benefit from FEA, or your level of FEA expertise is not providing you with the benefits you expected, contact us; we would be happy to talk with you about our experiences.