Principal level mechanical engineering, on call to your team.
Tempest Engineering is the practice of Steven Kreczman. I work as an associate to product design consultancies and scan-to-CAD bureaux, delivering design, analysis, verification and reverse engineering under your name and to your standards.
Fixed-fee packages, not open-ended resource.
Each package is scoped and priced before work starts: an independent review of one assembly, a tolerance stack before tooling, a parametric model from a scan. Delivery is to your template and title block, white-label if you need it, and drawings go out checked. See the full capabilities, read about the practice, or get in touch.
Who I work with
Product design consultancies
The independent mechanical and FEA specialist you bring in at peak or when a brief outgrows the team. Creo-native overflow, DFM and tolerance verification before tooling, and documented design review for regulated work.
Scan-to-CAD bureaux
Parametric, design-intent modelling from your scan data, so your scanners and CMMs keep billing while the CAD is done in the background. Your template, your BS 8888 conventions, your name on the drawing.
Capabilities
Full capabilities →Design & development
Concept through detailed design, Creo-native, with Siemens NX and SolidWorks. Sheet metal, machined parts, mouldings, enclosures and assemblies.
Analysis & verification
FEA and CFD, tolerance analysis and independent design review, with a written record you can file.
Drawings & data packs
Fully dimensioned, GD&T-toleranced drawings to BS8888 or ASME Y14.5, released to your standard.
Reverse engineering
Parametric scan-to-CAD in Geomagic Design X and SolidWorks, plus 2D-to-3D conversion of legacy drawings.
How it works
Brief
A call and a written scope with a fixed price. If it isn't a fit, I'll say so at this stage.
Design
Regular check-ins against agreed milestones. No surprises at delivery.
Release
Native and neutral CAD, drawings checked and issued to your numbering, under your name if required.
Start with one trial job.
Send a scan, an assembly or a drawing set and I'll come back with a scope and a fixed price.