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.
About Seked Labs
Seked Labs is an independent engineering company based in Sheffield. We help businesses, product developers and researchers with mechanical design, CAD, prototypes, fabrication, electronics and systems development, from a single practical job to a larger development project.
Built around practical development
Seked Labs sits between consultancy and workshop. We can help define the engineering problem, design a practical route forward, build the first version, and improve it through testing and iteration.
Our in-house development space brings together CAD-led design, prototype fabrication, electronics integration, and hands-on assembly. That means early ideas can move quickly from discussion and sketches into fixtures, test pieces, enclosures, rigs, and integrated prototype systems.
Why Seked Labs exists
Many technical projects reach a stage where the idea is clear enough to explore, but not defined enough for a standard supplier or large integrator. A research team may need a custom rig, a startup may need a working prototype, or a manufacturer may need a practical way to measure, test, or automate part of a process.
Seked Labs was created for that early, uncertain stage. We combine engineering judgement with build capability so that ideas can be tested physically, not left as reports or drawings.
Background
Founder
Dr Mohamed Atwya, engineer and researcher with a PhD in machine learning for advanced manufacturing from the University of Sheffield.
Technical focus
Engineering design and development for physical products and systems, including CAD, prototype hardware, custom parts, electronics, sensing, automation concepts and applied data analysis.
Approach
Practical, iterative development: understand the problem, build the smallest useful system, capture the right data, then improve based on evidence.
Based
Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Supporting clients across the UK.
Established
2025
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.
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.
View related publicationWhat we work on
Typical work includes CAD revisions, custom components, product prototypes, brackets, enclosures, jigs and fixtures, alongside research rigs, electronics integration, sensor systems and automation prototypes.
We are particularly suited to projects where design and build need to happen together, and where the goal is to make a physical process more measurable, testable, repeatable, or automated.