23rd February 2012

Design for massive cost savings

Minima have created a solution to bring down the cost of accessing super-fast broadband from fibre-optic networks by enabling consumers to connect up their own homes themselves.

Minima is an expanding, award winning, product development company.  We create, prototype and deliver commercially successful products, services and equipment using an innovation process based on an improved user experience.  An opportunity has arisen for an experienced prototyping specialist to join the Minima team to lead and to promote prototyping activities for clients in a…

Exhibiting at the UK’s largest international technology event

Minima recently exhibited at TechWorld 2011, the largest recognised international technology show it the UK.  Thanks to those we met and helped to make the event both productive and enjoyable.

The Minima team take environmental concerns around new product introductions seriously.  As part of our commitment to this area, we are developing environmental auditing capabilities for our projects.  This will enable us to offer clients a wider understanding of the impact new products may have on the environment with respect to natural resources, processing and…

Designing out negatives

An often overlooked aspect of design is its ability to transform a previously negative product or experience into a positive one.  I recently came across two examples that offer a good demonstration of this in the redesign of online quantitative research into more rewarding customer interactions.

Review of the Minima designed mobility aid for Ultracane

BBC News profiled the Ultracane showing how the use of Ultrasound in the product was based on the same echo location effects that bats create when navigating in the dark.

Tailor Made and Time Compressed

Overview More and more medical procedures require bespoke implants, designed and created using patient specific data. Whilst rapid prototyping technologies such as SLS and SLA can create anatomical replicas of CT or MRI data, materials used are porous, difficult to sterilise and can leach or transfer particulates onto implant materials or tissues. Using our in-house…

Oil & Gas monitoring to stringent ATEX standards

Overview The Midas Meter represents the next generation in valve leak detection for industrial fluid monitoring such as the Oil and Gas industries. As such the product had to be strong, reliable and also positively convey the client’s brand value. Why Valve leaks are costly and can be pose an extreme hazard not only to…

What it all means

Since its introduction into the business language by Henry Chesbrough in 2003, ‘Open Innovation’ has become a phrase synonymous with independent group interaction and the outsourcing of creative ideas. Open innovation covers a wide range of business activities, so it would be prudent to define the various different practices, their advantages and their shortcomings; Open…

Oxems partnered with Minima to develop their buried asset detection and create a truly breakthrough product.

University spin out companies can significantly boost their value through working with Minima. We are regularly approached by spin outs who have an exciting new technology which requires a complimentary product to extract the most from this new science. Overview Historically, buried asset (cables, pipes, conduiting etc) detection has been achieved through electromagnetic sensing of…