Built-in Quality From the First Design.
Get a robust Design x-ray vision so that you can Optimize, Not Just analyze.
RD8 helps engineering teams build robust, manufacturable designs by finding the optimal tolerances and constraints up front, not just checking whether a design passes. Use the software, bring in our team, or train your engineers to do it themselves.
SOFTWARE. Zero Errors at 6X Speed.
Optimize tolerance stacks and constraints in hours instead of weeks.
CONSULTING. +800 products reviewed.
Hand us your toughest tolerance-critical assembly and get an optimized, production-ready answer.
ACADEMY. ★★★★★ 4.8/5 Star Ratings.
Build tolerance analysis and optimization skill across your team, on demand.
95% of profit is based on the 'Design Quality' - not manufacturing.
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The Logic
RD8 is built on unique - unmatched - interface technology that ensures clean interfaces which is the foundation for correct tolerance analysis.
RD8 Software has the World's First Interface X-ray that identifies and analyses mechanical interfaces direct from a 3D model.
This technology enables automatic tolerance stack-up set up and sanity checks for errors.
How RD8 can Support your Robust Design Journey
Tolerance software
Variation management like never before.
Robust Design insights, directly from your CAD.
Make tolerancing easy.
Optimize CAD geometry for simple tolerance stacks.
Robust Design Consulting
Specialized consulting for high volume production.
Focus on quality-by-design in three main industries: Life Science, Industrial Products and Automotive.
Engineering Academy
Learn the methods.
Master Robust Design through the RD8 Academy.
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Industries where Robust Design really matters
At RD8, we specialize in delivering innovative solutions tailored to diverse industries, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and performance of your products.
The more regulated, the larger the volumes and the more complex your products are - the more you will gain.
Industrial Products
Built to perform - from first prototype to final assembly
Featured themes:
Drug Delivery Devices
Precision by design - where safety meets certainty
Featured themes:
Automotive
Engineering confidence - at scale and at speed.
Featured themes:
Make Lasting Results by Focusing on the Design instead of Production
Design Quality by Robust Design methods is the key to unlock new potentials.
Better Quality
- Confidence in design. Full control of cause-and-effect of design choices. Critical-to-Quality enabler.
- Taming variation. Making products Robust (insensitive to variation) by design principles.
- Predictability and lift of yield/DPMO for (critical) functions.
Reduced Cost
- Reduced part cost (up to 50%) by relaxed tolerances and enablement of cheaper production processes
- Reduced total cost; improved assembly, investment cost, scrap and warranty/claims cost.
- Reduced need for Quality Assurance - only where it matters.
Improved Delivery
- Fewer tolerances and dimensions to keep in control -> leads to eased production and better supply chain.
- Reduced number of design iterations.
- Reduce time spent on maintenance tasks in engineering.
Improved Sustainability
- Reduced CO2 footprint through design optimization (improved product efficiency,-lifetime, -material usage, less scrap, better material selection)
- Improved circular design (enabling disassembly, decoupling of materials, eased maintenance/repair)
Set the Right Design Direction from Day One and Eliminate Non-Robust Designs
Use Robust Design to identify good designs early on and prevent costly design iterations.
Eliminate and promote designs based on data-driven metrics - from the first sketch.
Mechanical Interface Design Expertise
Key Disciplines driven by Robust Design
Robust Design Principles
Not all dimensions matter - but some matter a lot.
Managing variation starts with knowing which tolerances actually affect performance. RD8 maps tolerance chains across assemblies to identify critical contributors and isolate variation risks. This ensures functional reliability where it counts, while eliminating over-specification elsewhere - reducing cost, easing manufacturing, and accelerating time to market.
Constraints and Interfaces
Your product performance is defined by its interfaces - and most problems start there.
Robust design begins by understanding how parts place, move and interact. By analyzing mechanical interfaces, constraints, and degrees of freedom early in the design process, you can uncover overconstraints and misalignments before they become a problem. The result: more precision, cleaner movement, more predictable assembly behavior, and fewer downstream surprises.
RD8 offerings
At RD8 we offer several different ways to help you with your mechanical designs, depending on how involved you want RD8 to be in your design process.
Software
The RD8 Tolerance Analysis and Optimization Software is a spell checker for mechanical design, letting you manage tolerance stacks with ease.
Consulting
From product reviews to full design execution, our consulting services integrate seamlessly into your workflow to help you build better products.
Engineering Academy
RD8 offers a range of courses empowering your team to use robust design principles and the RD8 toolbox.
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