# Abraham Associates > Abraham Associates Ltd is an engineering design consultancy based on the east side of Southampton, Hampshire, serving companies throughout Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Sussex, Surrey, Dorset and the UK. Founded as a partnership in 1992 and incorporated in 1995, the company provides an outsourced design service spanning technical and creative disciplines, covering product development, structural design engineering, mechanical engineering, engineering product design, industrial design, electronics and software design, analysis and simulation, and prototyping. Abraham Associates works with entrepreneurs, business owners, and decision-makers across many industries, from start-ups to large corporations, on products ranging from single components to large, complex assemblies and systems. ## Company - [Home](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/): Overview of Abraham Associates' mechanical, structural and product engineering design solutions, providing an outsourced design service from the technical to the creative with support across the product life cycle. - [About](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/about/): Background on Abraham Associates, founded as a partnership in 1992 and incorporated in 1995, its "can-do" approach, and its specialisms in product development, structural design engineering, mechanical engineering, engineering product design, industrial design and electronics/software design. ## Services - [Our Services](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/our-services/): Overview of Abraham Associates' engineering design services, developing mechanical and electro-mechanical products from the creative to the technical and turning ideas into commercial reality. - [Mechanical Engineering](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/our-services/mechanical-engineering/): Mechanical and electro-mechanical engineering design using CAE and 3D CAD tools, covering design for manufacture, mechanisms, material selection, standard parts and integration of mechanical (MCAD) and electronics (ECAD) data ahead of prototyping and manufacture. - [Product Design](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/our-services/product-design/): Engineering product and industrial design where art and engineering meet, addressing form, usability, ergonomics, branding and aesthetics through design studies and close customer collaboration. - [Analysis & Simulation](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/our-services/3d-design-simulation/): Analysis and simulation provided as a standalone service or as part of the design process, using 3D computer models to aid early development, investigate problems and iterate design studies. - [Electronics & Software Design](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/our-services/electronics-software-design/): Electronics and software design provided on their own or as a complete electro-mechanical service, specialising in Radio Frequency (RF), digital and analogue electronics and software design and development. - [3D Printing & Prototyping](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/our-services/prototyping/): 3D printing, 3D scanning and prototyping using most current processes (SLA, SLS, DMLS, FDM) complemented by vacuum casting, CNC machining and conventional model making for design validation, testing and low-volume manufacture. - [Manufacturing](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/our-services/manufacturing/): A full design-for-manufacture service spanning many production processes, with suppliers engaged early in a project to address design and manufacturing issues when changes are easiest and lowest cost. ## Portfolio - [Portfolio](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/portfolio/): Examples of Abraham Associates' design projects across a range of industries, including CCTV cameras, woodchipping machinery, plate-handling robotics and large systems incorporating steel structures. ## Contact - [Contact](https://www.abrahamassociates.com/contact/): Contact details and enquiry form for Abraham Associates, engineering design consultants based in Southampton, Hampshire.