Design & Development
Design and R&D Division: Designing for sustainable performance
The Synov Group’s integrated design office is the starting point for every technological and industrial success. But our role goes far beyond technical design. We act as your strategic partner, asking critical questions about the future of your product at every stage.
This approach, which we call “Design-to-Future”, involves a constant trade-off between immediate cost, long-term performance, production sustainability and regulatory compliance. Our mission is no longer simply to design a functional product, but to ensure that it will be the most cost-effective and resilient over its entire lifecycle.
Electronic & Mechanical Design: Arbitrating Performance
Designing a board or enclosure is a series of high-stakes decisions. Our role is to provide you with the keys to arbitration that others don’t offer.
| Our Question | Your benefit |
|---|---|
| Cost/sustainability trade-off: Is this component the cheapest, or the one that won’t cause a line failure in 3 years’ time? | We analyze the lifecycle of each critical component to secure your production over the long term. |
| Risk anticipation: What thermal, normative (CE, UL, ISO 13485) and vibratory constraints will cause your certification to fail? | We simulate worst-case scenarios before routing the first PCB, to guarantee compliance the first time. |
| Optimization for Production (DfM/DfA): How can we design this product so that it is not only manufacturable, but also testable, maintainable and cost-effective to assemble? | Every design choice is validated by our production teams to reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO). |
Embedded software & HMI: Experience at the heart of the system
A product’s intelligence is more than just its microcontroller. It lies in the reliability of its code and the efficiency of its interface.
| Our Focus | Your warranty |
|---|---|
| Reliability & Security: Is the firmware just functional, or is it secure and capable of managing degraded modes to prevent a field failure? | We develop software (C/C++, RTOS, Linux) that integrates functional safety from the very first line of code. |
| Operational efficiency: Is the HMI just “pretty”, or has it been designed with your operators to reduce training time and handling errors? | We create interfaces (Qt, embedded, mobile) that maximize end-user performance. |
Prototyping & Validation: Confronting reality
A prototype is not a model. It’s the first confrontation of your idea with physical, regulatory and economic reality.
- De-risking through Iteration: We create functional prototypes to validate usage and performance at the earliest possible stage, and at the lowest possible cost.
- Optimize profitability: the test phase is the best time to analyze design-to-cost and optimize the BOM before going into series production.
- Prepare for industrialization: Each test validates not only the product, but also its future manufacturability and testability in production.
- De-risking through Iteration: We create functional prototypes to validate usage and performance at the earliest possible stage, and at the lowest possible cost.
- Optimize profitability: the test phase is the best time to analyze design-to-cost and optimize the BOM before going into series production.
- Prepare for industrialization: Each test validates not only the product, but also its future manufacturability and testability in production.
Connectivity & IoT : The Link to Value
Connectivity isn’t a technology, it’s a business model. Choosing the right protocol has a direct impact on the autonomy, cost and services you can offer.
- Connectivity Arbitration: Choosing between LoRa, 5G, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi is not just a technical choice. We’ll help you make it based on your use case and business strategy.
- Security as a prerequisite: We integrate communications security (encryption, authentication) at the heart of the design, not as an overlay.
- Connectivity Arbitration: Choosing between LoRa, 5G, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi is not just a technical choice. We’ll help you make it based on your use case and business strategy.
- Security as a prerequisite: We integrate communications security (encryption, authentication) at the heart of the design, not as an overlay.
- Connectivity Arbitration: Choosing between LoRa, 5G, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi is not just a technical choice. We’ll help you make it based on your use case and business strategy.
- Security as a prerequisite: We integrate communications security (encryption, authentication) at the heart of the design, not as an overlay.
Your project is too critical for a design-commodity approach
Don’t just ask us to design a product. Challenge our engineers with your most complex use case, your toughest constraints and your highest ambitions.