About Us

As a creative and collaborative product design company, we help you bring your innovative ideas to market. It doesn’t matter where you are in your journey – from conceptualization to rollout, we’re your product design and development specialists. We serve clients in an array of industries, including military, medical, biotech, datacom, commercial, and consumer.

TUNGSTEN COLLABORATIVE

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.

END-TO-END.

As a creative and collaborative product design company, we help you bring your innovative ideas to market. It doesn’t matter where you are in your journey – from conceptualization to rollout, we’re your product design and development specialists. We serve clients in an array of industries, including military, medical, biotech, datacom, commercial, and consumer.

We pay close attention to the interplay of form and function, and our experienced design team has expertise in every aspect of product development, from industrial and mechanical design to hardware and software. We bring the whole team together from the outset, ensuring all your project’s industrial, mechanical, and electrical facets are expertly integrated. We also have proven manufacturing partners, and we never lose sight of how a new product fits into your brand ecosystem or organizational mission.

No matter how big or small your project or where you are in the design cycle, we check our egos at the door, listen carefully, and help you design and develop your vision into a world-class product that gets results.

OUR TEAM

WHO WE ARE

We’re a passionate and welcoming team that values diversity, innovation, creativity, reliability, and fun. We can’t wait to help you bring your ideas into the world, no matter how unusual or complex. We love developing reliable long-term relationships that see our clients succeed, and we stand out because of how closely we listen to the people we work for – we don’t take your idea and run with it so much as we take it and run with you.

As a small but dynamic team of innovators and multitaskers, we collaborate on each and every project, a winning formula our clients love. There’s just no other way to innovate.

Bill Dicke

President
BASc Mechanical Engineering

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Dave McMullin

VP Design
BSc Physics, BEng Mechanical Engineering

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Neil Webster

VP Software & Hardware
MSc Software Engineering, BSc Physical Electronics

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Lawrence Beckwith

Mechatronics Designer
BEng Mechatronics

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Hannah Mallalieu

Mechanical Designer
B. Eng. Mechanical Engineering

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Xavier Boulerice

Mechanical Designer
BASc Mechanical Engineering

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Johan Van Hulle

Industrial Designer
MSc Product Development

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Lee Clark

Mechanical Designer
B. A. Sc. – Mechanical Engineering

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Catherine Robinson

Mechanical Designer
B. A. Sc. Mechanical Engineering

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Richard Falck

Software Developer
BSc Computer Science

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TUNGSTEN COLLABORATIVE

WHO WE SERVE

Thanks to our team’s incredibly diverse backgrounds, we’ve collaborated with innovators across a wide range of industries, including military, medical, biotech, datacom, and commercial and consumer products. This vast diversity of experience is one of our key strengths, and we often take what we learn in one field and apply it to another in novel and creative ways.

Miltary

Developing ruggedized equipment for defense and public safety applications requires unique experience and specialized skills. We have designed and developed products that are built to withstand the world’s most intense environments and activities. These products have to be designed to exacting standards, include seamless user interaction, and work every day and every time.

Here’s what we’ve offered our clients:

  1. Field-proven ruggedized designs (IP6X and MIL-STD-810G)
  2. Structural Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards structural analysis
  3. Mission critical user experience
  4. Drone payload development
  5. Electronics thermal management

Medical & Biotech

Bringing new medical and biotechnology products from concept to patent and manufacturing to launch is a very complex process. We have rich experience delivering cutting-edge and industry-leading devices that are easy to use, highly functional, and cost effective. Often working as an extension of our clients’ internal teams, we also help develop core intellectual property and technology.

Here’s what we’ve offered our clients:

  1. Precision fluid handling and microfluidics
  2. DNA analysis (PCR cycle) & Lateral flow assays
  3. Disposable and single-use products
  4. Point of care testing technology
  5. IEC 60601 certification

Commercial & Industrial

From designing equipment used 24 hours a day on the biggest assembly lines in the world to analyzing high performance brake rotors, we’re experts at designing equipment that absolutely has to work every single time it’s used.

We’re experts in the following areas:

  1. Test infrastructure
  2. Production line equipment
  3. Inspection equipment
  4. Harsh environment research
  5. Production line automation

Datacomm

Drawing on more than 60 combined years of experience, we’ve developed dozens of successful datacom products and patents. Our opto-mechanical designers have been part of some of the most innovative teams in Canadian history, and we’ve leveraged this experience to develop the next generation of datacom products.

We’re experts in the following areas:

  1. Optical Switching equipment
  2. Hermetic packaging & Laser welding
  3. Assembly tooling
  4. RF shielding and enclosure design
  5. Thermal management

Consumer

The success of any new consumer product hinges on its design. Not only does it have to function and meet all regulatory standards, it has to be user friendly and intuitive. It should also look incredible, have attractive packaging, and be something people are proud to own.

We’re experts in the following areas:

  1. High-volume manufacturing
  2. Injection molding
  3. Brand creation
  4. Design for manufacturing and assembly
  5. Offshore sourcing and logistics

TUNGSTEN COLLABORATIVE

OUR CLIENTS

& PARTNERS.

Over the years, we’ve collaborated with dozens of innovative thinkers, diving deep into their ideation and coming back to the surface with industry-leading product designs. And it doesn’t stop there. We also support our clients with everything from branding to positioning, ensuring their products make it from the assembly line directly into people’s lives.

 

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