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Engineering : Product Development Expertise
 Citation possesses the product development expertise and state-of-the-art design,
predictive and simulation tools to provide the "total package" in component design.
When combined with the benefits of our rapid prototyping capabilities, our customers are assured of getting the best solutions to their cast or forged component design problems.
Professional Competency
Our product development engineers are experts in establishing design parameters, analyzing and validating the design that will best satisfy the specific performance criteria.
With process development engineers as part of our program team, we design for the manufacturing process, too. This ensures that the component design is "manufacturable" - that the production process is as cost-effective and efficient as possible at the required production volume.
We provide our customers with "engineered component solutions" - cost-effective components custom-designed for the specific system in which they are used and guaranteed to perform on a world-class level.
 Technological Tools
Our engineers use a combination of 3-D and solid modeling with predictive software to ensure that component designs meet all performance criteria. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is used to optimize component design, while Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) helps ensure that potential design problems are eliminated prior to production. Process simulation helps validate the manufacturing process.
Citation is strongly committed to product design reviews as an integral part of our component design process. Component designs are continually reviewed, validated, tested and confirmed at every stage of the development process:
- As part of our initial feasibility study
- During design optimization
- Within the overall system
- Within the vehicle
- Within each of the proposed processes
 Rapid Prototyping
Citation uses advanced rapid prototype processes to provide prototypes that support the design and development process with the shortest lead-time.
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