Case Studies

Revolutionizing Race Car Engineering with Sherpa Design and Teamcenter

Sherpa Design — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:24:55 GMT

Rodin Cars is redefining what a small but elite engineering organization can achieve. To support their aggressive development cycles, Sherpa Design implemented Teamcenter, tailored to Rodin’s exact needs with a custom data model as well as an integration with NX.

Reducing Needle Phobia in Children with Innovative Haptic Technology

Sherpa Design — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:22:16 GMT

The Challenge: Solving Needle Phobia

Fear of needles or “needle phobia” impacts 50 percent to 60 percent of children and contributes to skipping flu shots, blood draws, and other necessary treatments involving needles. *

Additive manufacturing UL 94 V-0 parts for semiconductor clean rooms

Sherpa Design — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:04:48 GMT

An innovator in the semiconductor industry was looking to create hose and cable management parts using additive manufacturing technology. The parts needed to be rigid, flame retardant, and easily cleaned. These stringent requirements were paramount to prevent fire hazards and contamination within clean room environments, as rigorous decontamination procedures are costly and disruptive.

Post-Machining Carbon 3D Printed Components

Sherpa Design — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:02:03 GMT

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is refining the integration of a unique biological sampling system in an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The primary objective is to advance collection techniques that have the potential to streamline the work of biologists and resource managers.

Portable wall system for RF protection

Sherpa Design — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:00:37 GMT

Building a portable wall system to protect from RF bombardment

Designing a Touchscreen Display for use on Oil Derricks

Sherpa Design — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:04:15 GMT

desigining a Touchscreen display for use on oil derricks

The Challenge

Display maker, Planar Custom Products Group, wanted to build a touch screen control interface for industrial equipment on oil derricks. Lacking the full internal team for the project, they came to Sherpa for industrial design and mechanical engineering on the project.

Branding and Mechanical Engineering for Nanometrics

Sherpa Design — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:10:48 GMT

Nanometrics, a leading provider of advanced, high-performance process control metrology systems used primarily in the fabrication of semiconductors, acquired UniFire.

UniFire is a fully automated tool that delivers critical dimension (CD), overlay, and film thickness in one measurement. Nanometrics had two main goals after the acquisition: the branding for this new product line and reducing its manufacturing costs.

Product design on audio mixer JamHub

Sherpa Design — Tue, 28 May 2024 16:30:22 GMT

Sherpa completed engineering modeling design work for musical equipment maker, JamHub.

PACKAGING MATERIAL DESIGN | Sherpa Design

Sherpa Design — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:09:46 GMT

Keyes Packaging pride themselves on sustainability, creating packaging for fruits, vegetables, and wines from recycled bottle shippers and fiber case pack trays. They asked Sherpa to design an upright packaging solution that could hold twelve bottles of wine, saving money by maximizing the amount of wine per container.

Configuring Teamcenter with Oracle RDS

Sherpa Design — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:06:23 GMT

In this case study, we explore how Sherpa Design successfully implemented a greenfield Teamcenter configuration with Oracle RDS for Reliable Robotics Corporation.