Product & industrial design
Explore ideas, develop concepts and shape the form, materials and experience of a product.
AN INDEPENDENT DESIGN & ENGINEERING STUDIOGood Ideas.
Built Forward.
Product design & engineering
Combining design, engineering, electronics, firmware and product software to take ideas through development and into manufacture.
Discuss a project01 / HOW WE THINKASSEMBLY STUDY / 001
01 / SKETCHEvery product
Every product
starts with an idea.
Explore the brief through loose sketches. Find the essential form before committing to the detail.
ILLUSTRATIVE ENGINEERING STUDYRESOLVED / 000
02 / CAPABILITIESFROM IDEA TO MANUFACTURE
Everything a product
needs to move forward.
Design, engineering and technology, developed together. We work across the physical product and the electronics, firmware and software that bring it to life.
Mechanical engineering
Develop mechanisms, components and assemblies. Work through fit, function and technical detail from CAD to prototype.
Electronics
Develop the electronics that make a product work, bringing sensing, control and hardware together within the design.
Embedded firmware
Write the code that runs on the product’s electronics, connecting hardware, control logic and device behaviour.
Product software
Build software that supports the product: interfaces, controls and connected functions that work with the physical device.
Manufacturing
Turn developed designs into physical products, considering materials, production processes, assembly and repeatability.
SOFTWARE WITH A PURPOSE Our software work centres on physical products and their connected systems.
03 / OUR ETHOSNORTHERN ROOTS. FORWARD THINKING.
Born from industry.
Built for what’s next.
The North of England helped build the modern world.
We’re here to help shape what comes next.
01 / ROOTSc.1820
The spirit of
the North.
From the mills of Manchester to the engineering workshops of Lancashire, generations of makers, thinkers and innovators transformed ideas into industry.
02 / MAKING1913
A culture
of making.
Practical skill. Inventive thinking. The determination to make things work. Factory North carries that spirit forward.
03 / FACTORY NORTHNOW / NEXT
GOOD IDEAS. BUILT FORWARD.New tools.
The same drive.
Design, engineering, electronics, firmware, software and manufacturing. Working together to develop products for the modern world.
Archive imagery & sources
McConnel & Company mills, Ancoats, Manchester: c.1820 illustration and 1913 archive image. Scanned by Mr Stephen from A Century of Fine Cotton Spinning, 1790–1913. Both identified as public domain by Wikimedia Commons. Displayed in monochrome and cropped. Weaving looms at Queen Street Mill, Burnley: photograph by Fobmod (2023), Wikimedia Commons, released under CC0. Displayed in monochrome and cropped. These images illustrate the region’s industrial heritage.
04 / GET IN TOUCHTHE NEXT STEP STARTS HERE
What are you
working on?
A first thought, a technical challenge or a brief ready to go.
Tell us where you want to get to.