Engineering Services
Engineering Services
Pizzacake Industries specializes in unique electrical/mechanical design and low volume manufacturing. Much of our work comes from academic and scientific research teams who need highly specialized test fixtures or automated test machinery. Our expertise is highly applicable to R&D for commercial customers as well.
If you have an idea or project you want us to consider, or need a quote for a project proposal, email us at engineering@pizzacake.io
Specific examples of our engineering capabilities and experience can be viewed below.
Design Engineering
We employ a very hands-on, customer focused approach to design engineering. Our goal is to provide a product that meets your needs, and we'll work with you closely to make sure that happens. Out experience includes but is not limited to:
Working directly with researchers/customers with and without technical backgrounds
Fully integrated testing devices, including mechanical assemblies and custom or off the shelf DAQ hardware and software
Test fixtures/machines for orthopedic and other medical research
Custom circuit and PCB design
Highly integrated electrical and mechanical designs
Reverse engineering
Manufacturing
We've been making weird things for a long time. As such, we have a significant amount of manufacturing resources and experience that we can use to tackle your unique manufacturing needs. Our capabilities include:
Rugged and precise electromechanical assemblies
Modification/Augmentation of existing mechanical products, assemblies, or specimens (adapting for new use case, integrating strain gauges or other testing hardware, etc.)
Assemblies with unique material combinations
Manufacturing with unique materials (uncommon plastics, precious metals, biological materials or specimens, custom materials, etc.)
Medium-volume micromachining (sub-millimeter sized holes, pins)
Other Odd Jobs
Prior Work
A sampling of our contracted projects below is provided to showcase our design and manufacturing experience and expertise.
Simple Custom 3-Point Bending Apparatus
Uppsala University, Sweden
Laser-Based Geometry Measurement Device
Winona, Minnesota
Wrist Biomechanics Experimental Device
Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
Test Adapter
Rochester, MN
Universal Clamp
Michigan Tech University
Biomechanics Friction Measurement Device
Japan and Singapore
Custom Multi-Axis Test Machine
Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
Similar devices for universities in Finland and Sweden
Custom Universal Test Machine
Texas Tech University
Six DOF Force Measurement with Wireless Data Logger
Project with Tainan, Taiwan university
Rat/Mouse Femur Torque Test Adapters
Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
HDD Disk Polisher Calibration Device
IBM, Rochester MN
Anatomical Shoulder Test Device
University of Texas, San Antonio
Breakout Panel for 3D Kinematic Motion Capture Device
Texas Tech University
Tendon Bioreactor
Changsha, Hunan Province, China
Femur Fracture Test Fixture
University of Texas San Antonio
3-Axis Bioreactor for Cartilage Research
Rochester Minnesota
Dry Ice Soft Tissue Freeze Clamps
University of Texas San Antonio
Multi-Axis Spine Simulator
University of South Florida