Design & Development

Capabilities  

  • PDM Neptec supplies superior quality, professionally designed, and longer lasting cable assemblies.
  • Experienced harsh environment engineers will project manage a solution to meet your specifications.
  • PDM application engineers design all mould tooling used in a project under ISO 9001:2008 standards.

 

Engineering Team

Dave Nicholson (Applications & Engineering Manager) leads a team of five full time design engineers that have a combined 135 years experience in underwater and harsh environment engineering.

The team can draw upon experiences from; atmospheric diving, remotely operated vehicles, deep sea photographic camera systems, bespoke housings for video cameras and instumentation, and oceanographic sampling equipment.

The engineers have also acquired diverse manufacturing skills and knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, and injection moulding.

 

Project Management

PDM provide total solutions to our customers' connector, cable assembly, and connectivity projects. The engineers will design, manufacture, and test to prototype to ensure the final product supplied meets the projects specifications. The PDM list of prestigous customers is testament to our skilled engineers with projects that include:

  • Special electrical (including High Voltage) connectors
  • Water blocked penetrators
  • Encapsulated sensors and tranducers
  • Instumentation housings
  • Cable bend control devices
  • Quickcure Moulding System for offsite cable repairs
  • Remote encapsulated displays for re-breather diving equipment

Ongoing practical advice for connector usage and selection issues is always freely available for our customers.

 

Fibre Optics

PDM has used the engineering talent to develop the Omega range of fibre optic and electrical underwater connectors.

The flexibility of the Omega range of fibre optic connectors means that special hybrid connectors can be manufactured to meet specific customer requirements.

 

Knowledge Transfer Programme (KTP)

PDM has recently undertaken a KTP with Portsmouth University investigating the subsea industry problem of Cathodic Delamination of metal to elastomer bonds.

Follow up research by the engineering team is now well advanced, and specific enhancements have been introduced into the PDM internal manufacturing processes for superior underwater cable assemblies that benefit our customers.

The knowledge that continues to follow from the KTP test cells will produce even more benefits as PDM seeks to design, manufacture, and test engineered connectivity solutions that work in harsh environments.

 

Contact us for all your bespoke design needs and we will be happy to help.