Engineering development for physical systems

Engineering systems
for the physical world

Measure → Understand → Automate

Seked Labs helps researchers, startups, and manufacturers turn complex physical processes into measurable, testable, and automated systems through engineering consultancy, in-house prototyping, sensing, electronics, and applied data capability.

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CAD-led mechanical and electromechanical prototype development.

What we develop

Test & Research Systems

Custom rigs, fixtures, experimental platforms, and prototype hardware for research groups, startups, and technical teams that need a working system to test an idea.

Inspection & Data-Capture Systems

Repeatable imaging, sensing, measurement, lighting, sample positioning, and data logging setups for inspection, QA, materials, and experimental workflows.

Automation & Control Prototypes

Early-stage automation concepts for handling, positioning, checking, sorting, and process improvement before committing to a full industrial system.

Engineering Intelligence

Applied data, image analysis, signal analysis, monitoring workflows, and ML-assisted decision support where physical systems need to become measurable and understandable.

Who we work with

Seked Labs supports technical teams that need to move from an uncertain engineering problem to a working physical system, especially where measurement, experimentation, automation, or data capture are involved.

Research teams

Custom experimental rigs, sample fixtures, instrumentation setups, sensing platforms, and prototype hardware for research projects and technical demonstrators.

Startups and spinouts

Prototype-to-pilot support for early hardware, inspection, automation, monitoring, and data-capture systems that need to become more credible and buildable.

Manufacturers and SMEs

Practical engineering support for test fixtures, inspection workflows, process monitoring, automation concepts, and custom technical hardware.

Engineering teams

Extra design-and-build capacity for prototype systems, integrated assemblies, instrumentation, enclosures, and specialist development work.

In-house build capabilities

3D Printing

Fast in-house FDM printing for prototypes, functional parts, enclosures, fixtures, brackets, and one-off engineering components in technical plastics.

Laser Cutting

Precise cutting and engraving for acrylic, wood, sheet materials, panels, labels, guards, enclosure parts, and quick-turn prototype assemblies.

CNC Machining

Light CNC machining for plastics, aluminium, wood, and tooling materials used in brackets, plates, panels, jigs, fixtures, and prototype parts.

Electronics Assembly

PCB assembly, soldering, wiring, sensor integration, and bench-level electronics support for prototype systems, research hardware, and test setups.

Fixtures, Rigs & Enclosures

Design and build support for fixtures, rigs, housings, sample holders, inspection plates, brackets, enclosures, and workshop-built prototype structures.

Integration & Prototype Builds

Assembly and integration of mechanical, electrical, and fabricated parts into working prototype systems, bench setups, and early-stage technical demonstrators.

How it works

  1. Scope
    Tell us what you need to measure, test, automate, build, or understand.
  2. Review
    We assess technical risk, constraints, manufacturability, instrumentation, and the best route forward.
  3. Design & Build
    We design, fabricate, assemble, instrument, or integrate the prototype system in-house where appropriate.
  4. Test & Iterate
    We check the build, capture lessons, and support the next development step where needed.
Built around technical uncertainty

Some projects need a fast prototype part. Others need a structured route from unclear technical problem to working system. We confirm scope, lead time, assumptions, and key constraints up front.

Relevant engineering background

Examples of prior engineering and research work relevant to Seked Labs’ focus on sensing, instrumentation, prototype systems, process understanding, and applied machine learning.

In-situ porosity prediction for metal additive manufacturing

Research on sensor-based defect localisation in metal powder bed fusion using prior-guided machine learning and spectral emissions monitoring.

Applied machine learning for non-destructive testing

Research-led development of a thermographic inspection workflow for detecting subsurface flaws in friction stir welds using transient thermography, feature extraction, and machine learning.

Robotic instrumentation platform for oesophageal intervention research

Prior research and development work involving mechanical design, CAD, prototyping, actuation, sensing, and system integration for a medical robotics platform.

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