Engineering | PA Consulting

Converting inventive ideas into innovative products or manufacturing processes, requires a deep understanding of the physical world and experience navigating the path of productisation. Whether you need a novel technology developed, a proof of concept matured, or a prototype translated into a product that can be manufactured at scale, our teams can help. We combine enlightened engineering with years of substantive experience to solve our partners’ most challenging business problems.

Working together

Working alongside designers, scientists, and business specialists, our engineers tackle vexing problems, irrespective of industry or technology. Our approach is grounded in the first principles of the physical sciences and mathematics, allowing us to cut through opinions, biases, and beliefs to understand challenges at a fundamental level.

We draw on cross-discipline expertise to think laterally, skirting conventional thinking or expected patterns that can hinder originality and breakthrough problem solving. We partner with motivated innovators to bridge the development gap from the underlying science of a technology to a product with true impact and longevity. If you are a leader asking can we do this, should we do this, or how do we do this, we are here to help you find a way.

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Product design engineering

Combining expertise across mechanical, material, electronic, medical, and manufacturing engineering to design first-to-world products for high volume manufacture.

Complex systems engineering

Tackling the most complex, multi-faceted, systems engineering challenges to distill manageable, achievable results.

Electronic systems engineering

Design and development of advanced electronic and embedded software systems across digital and analogue electronic systems.

Control systems design and development

Design, development, and deployment of complex real-time control systems in products and manufacturing processes.

Manufacturing process engineering

The design and development of novel manufacturing processes, exploiting new materials and new manufacturing techniques from concept to in-service process.

Global Innovation and Technology Centre

Our Global Innovation and Technology Centre in Cambridge, UK, is the heart of PA’s international network of design, engineering, and innovation centres. It’s where we turn ingenious ideas into physical and digital reality.

Featured insight

Insight

Engineering bridges between people and technology

Technology succeeds when people adopt it, are able to use it, and ultimately achieve what they otherwise could not.

Spotlight

Life-changing technologies and innovation

In partnership with WIRED, we explore how the end-to-end innovation journey and life-changing technologies can answer the world’s toughest challenges.

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Insight

Woman in Tech of the month: Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Engineering

Woman in Tech of the Month is our series exploring the achievements of women who are breaking gender stereotypes to build technology-based careers. This month, we’re celebrating Catherine Hildersley, Mechanical Engineer at PA.

Expert views

Ultimately, the focus of my role entails solving problems and making something better. This might be improving the efficiency of a production process, creating a new product to make people smile, or designing a surgical tool to save people’s lives.”

Catherine Hildersley Engineering

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Technology has the potential to answer many of the world’s toughest challenges, but it takes human ingenuity to unleash it. The series delves into the end-to-end innovation journey, from how technology can transform people’s performance to how to turn an idea into a market-leading business.”

Frazer Bennett Chief Innovation Officer

Explore our insights with WIRED

In the next 20 years, quantum technology will bring significant reliability, speed, accuracy and security improvements to the performance of products and services in manufacturing, healthcare, defence, supply chains, financial services and telecoms.”

Paul Martin Electronic systems

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