The client is an award winning designer and manufacturer of UHF radio systems. The brief was to liaise with the clients electronics and radio engineers to design a battery powered, portable, Personal Attack and Communications Transmitter with Base Station charger. These devices are often used by lone workers who may be at risk of injury or attack in the course of their work or who need to be monitored as they pass along a predetermined route.

The first stage was to meet with the development team and agree the placing of major components to achieve an ergonomic and practical layout. The concept was quickly agreed from sketches and the next stage was to prepare CAD schematic drawings allowing all parties to work collaboratively around a common internal specification. This had the advantage of compressing the project timescale with the result that all the necessary prototypes could be ready simultaneously.

The design was developed in several stages including sketches, CAD visuals, rapid prototypes, user testing and approvals testing. The mould tools were manufactured from CAD data and control drawings.