Our knowledge and experience in the creative and digital sectors can be a valuable resource for your organisation.
We offer consultancy services, from short project work to significant contract research and knowledge exchange partnerships (KTPs).
We have a range of industry experts that can benefit your business.
Design Matter
Design Matter are a design team with a difference. We are a group of researchers, educators and professional design practitioners who are focused on generating the best possible solutions for industry.
Our capabilities include:
- Industry standard 3D modelling - We work with Industry Standard 3D and 2D software including SOLIDWORKS and Adobe Creative Cloud to realise concepts through to final manufacturing data.
- Product visualisation and rendering - Our team is capable of producing high quality and accurate product renders to help visualise your product idea and bring it to reality
- Advanced prototyping - Our wide range of CNC prototyping machines include FDM / SLS / SLA 3D Printers, a CNC Water Jet Cutter, a CNC Plasma Cutter, large and small format laser cutters, a 4-Axis CNC Milling Machine, a 4-Axis CNC Router and CNC Lathe.
- Leading edge workshops and laboratories - We have a significant range of product prototyping and medical laboratory facilities.
- Training - We offer scheduled and tailored short courses to support idea development and prototyping skills. Find out more: From Idea to Prototype: Rapid Prototyping Techniques for Businesses
Advanced Textiles
NTU is a leading institution for advanced textiles research with a global reputation for designing electronically active wearable technology.
Areas of work include:
- Development of smart yarns by embedding semiconductor dice in yarns / fibres
- Advanced knitted and woven structures
- Knitted, heated textiles
- Flexible fabric antennae for communication systems
- Electronically-active textiles for medical and automotive applications
- Graduated compression garments for sports, rehabilitation, and the treatment of venous disease and lymphoedema
- Smart knitted structures for active moisture management
- Mimicry of living, biomechanical structures and biological surrogate synthetics
- Surgical, trauma and implant training simulators and phantom modelling
Bio Models: Medical Modelling Service
Our award-winning Flexural Composites Research Laboratory (FCRL) team are global leaders in the development and manufacture of hyper-realistic soft bio-models.
They offer clients a one-stop shop for turning medical imaging data into three-dimensional artefacts that can mimic the mechanical properties of almost any living soft tissues. They can help facilitate your needs with:
- CT and MRI data processing
- segmentation of anatomy from data
- digital modelling and rendering
- mechanical characterisation of biomodelling materials
- tensile testing, hardness testing and multi-axial testing
- additive manufacturing of multi-part medical models
- moulding, tooling and vacuum casting
- moulding soft tissue surrogates on rigid hard-tissue parts
- multi-layered, multi-functional bio-models
- model production and assembly
- post-processing suite for bio-model production
- model validation and user-trials with clinical experts and user-groups.
Artificial Intelligence
At NTU, we offer assistance to businesses in embedding Generative AI into their practice. Our expertise spans our schools of Art & Design, and Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, where our research has been focused on leveraging Generative AI tools to enhance creativity and deliver meaningful outputs. By combining deep domain knowledge with research into state of the art tools, we help creatives and creative businesses develop their understanding of what AI is, and how it may impact their creative processes.
We can collaborate with companies to offer the following:
- Consultancy focused on where, when, how and why to embed AI into workflows
- Tailor made design sprints to explore use cases and application of AI within creative processes
- Training on how to use AI Text-to-image tools and Large Language Models.
- Development of custom AI systems and workflows in line with unique business needs
- AI generated content creation
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Get in touch with us to talk to one of our team about your requirements.
Email: commercialservices@ntu.ac.uk
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