Mechanical design
Concept development, equipment layouts and detailed design shaped around how your product will actually be made, assembled and maintained.
↗Mechanical design · Yorkshire
ETTLER.
To planTo intendTo design
Mechanical design & engineering · Yorkshire
Design with
intent.
Practical mechanical design, 3D CAD and engineering support—from process equipment and bespoke machinery through to manufacture.
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What we do
Engineering ideas into manufacture.
ETTLER brings hands-on manufacturing experience to mechanical design. The result is clear thinking, robust detail and designs that work beyond the screen.
Capability
Support where it
makes a difference.
3D CAD & detailing
Production-ready models, assemblies, manufacturing drawings and bills of materials with the detail your workshop needs.
↗Process vessels & pipework
Jacketed vessels and process pipework layouts developed around production, access, installation, cleaning and maintenance requirements.
↗Design for manufacture
Practical design reviews that reduce complexity, expose risk early and turn difficult ideas into dependable engineering.
↗Swarf & coolant systems
Heavy-duty and below-floor conveyors, bespoke chip bins, modular high-pressure coolant tanks, pumps, filtration and complete swarf-management systems.
↗Project & production support
Structured BOMs, MRP system workflows and delivery planning that help keep engineering information, purchasing and manufacture aligned.
↗How we work
A clear path from
brief to build.
Define
Clarify the problem, operating environment and measures of success.
Develop
Explore practical concepts and make the important decisions early.
Detail
Build the CAD, drawings, BOMs and documentation needed for manufacture.
Deliver
Hand over a considered design with clear outputs and responsive support.
Engineering experience
Grounded in the
real world.
Founded by Luke Atkinson, a Senior Design Engineer with more than 12 years of experience taking bespoke industrial equipment from brief to installation.
Luke’s early experience included designing jacketed process vessels and jacketed pipework for food-manufacturing projects associated with organisations including Nestlé, Fox’s and McVitie’s, alongside smaller producers.
Within the machine-tool sector, his work includes a roughly 45-metre below-floor conveyor system for Yamazaki Mazak UK, collecting swarf from four CNC machines and transporting it to an external skip. He has also designed heavy-duty conveyors, bespoke chip bins, modular high-pressure coolant tanks and complete swarf-management systems.
His designs have formed part of installations within BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce facilities, as well as other marine and aerospace manufacturing environments. He also works extensively with bills of materials, MRP systems and delivery planning to connect design decisions with purchasing, production and project deadlines.
Concept developmentSolidWorks & 3D CADJacketed vesselsProcess pipeworkHeavy-duty conveyorsHigh-pressure coolantSwarf managementBOM & MRP systemsDesign for manufactureDelivery planning
ETTLER
Our name
To plan. To intend.
To design.
ETTLER is drawn from an old northern word: ettle—to aim, plan or design. It reflects an approach to engineering where every decision has a reason and every detail has a purpose.
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Have a design
challenge?
Whether you need additional design capacity, detailed CAD support, process-equipment experience or a practical route from concept to manufacture, let’s talk.
luke@ettler.co.uk ↗Huddersfield, West Yorkshire · Supporting clients across the UK