Proen Design Australia Pty Ltd: Engineering and design

Proen Design Australia is a leading product design and engineering consultancy based in Adelaide, South Australia. Proen combines extensive product design experience with highly sophisticated, state-of-the-art technology to provide product development services from concept design through to manufacture for Australian and international clients.

Proen clients come from a wide range of industries including consumer goods such as water purifiers and EFTPOS terminals, appliances including dishwashers and cooktops, automotive components like alloy wheels and truck chassis, and defence. The engineering analysis performed for clients in these industries places extremely high demands on computing resources, and Proen meets these by using facilities offered by eResearch SA.

Using eResearch SA's advanced supercomputing facilities, Proen can dramatically increase the scale and speed of its models to provide world-class solutions. The availability of these resources is a significant competitive advantage for Proen as the company works to grow its business in a global marketplace.

"With these facilities available to us, we have confidence that we can take on a job of any size," says George Campbell, Proen's director of computer-aided engineering services.

Proen's association with eResearch SA began several years ago in a South Australian university entrepreneurial initiative in which several Proen principals took part. They established an engineering business under the scheme and were able to take advantage of the computing facilities available to them.

Specialists within Proen are equipped to undertake a wide range of product research tasks, and the company's capabilities are further enhanced by strong links with educational institutions. Its research services include innovation and IP generation, technology transfer, market research, and applied research such as acoustic modelling and computational fluid dynamics.