TQ Ltd

Warden Call, Door Entry and Personal Alarm Systems

We are a leading supplier to one of the UK's largest manufacturers of care and security systems for the elderly. We have been working with them since 2005, creating design solutions for a range of their products. Services utilised: Product design, Product development, 3d cad, Mechanical engineering, China toolmaking, China manufacturing.

TQ, established in 2004, has evolved from a product design and development 'design house' to a fully fledged international product development company with toolmaking, electronics design and product manufacturing facilities in Shenzhen, China.

Progression Form tooling for Sheet Metal

We use a cost-effective hybrid combination to create many designs for consumer electronics.This is a solution we first developed several years ago for Pace. It consists of a progression formed sheet metal chassis with a plastic front panel moulding.

 Through the years we have optimised the mechanical engineering of this combination to suit individual applications. The sheet metal chassis can be formed with details for component assembly or fan outlets. The plastic moulding can include a pre-assembled printed circuit board or moulded connections for engaging main PCB switches.

Chinese product manufacturing was the logical next step for TQ since it combines our UK product design consultant, UK mechanical engineering, Chinese electronic product design, Chinese injection mould toolmaking and Chinese product manufacturing expertise into one best-value package with a single entity for the complete responsibility of the product's design, development and manufacture.

Consumer Electronics Product Design and Development

TQ-designed consumer electronic products have appeared in the retail market under a variety of quality name brands including Bush, Daewoo, Ferguson and Humax, to name a few.

Our latest DVB/PVR set top box is the innovative GiGo personal video recorder. Instead of using an internal hard drive for storage, we custom designed and developed high quality external USB memory sticks that are specially made for the handling of compressed video.

Q's expertise in product design and development is the result of experience and knowledge accumulated over 25 years as industrial design consultants specialising in consumer electronics design and consumer product development.

Electronics Products Design and Development

Custom built electronics require specialised design, development, manufacturing and testing equipment and systems. We are able to provide these at a considerable cost saving to the client,including components utilising high performance RFID systems that meet rigorous industrial, defence, security, rail and road applications.

TQ's electronics software and hardware resources allow us to carry out electronics hardware and software design and development for new products to our client's specifications as contract Chinese electronic manufacturers of custom electronic product designs.

In-Vehicle Diagnostics Devices

We worked closely with our client, one of Chrysler's first-tier suppliers in the USA, as product design consultants for the styling and engineering of the "Starmobile" in-car diagnostics instrument. Following approval of a prototype, TQ China manufactured production tooling and moulds for the ABS, PVC and Polycarbonate components.

The complex parts finishing process begins with extensive masking on internal surfaces in preparation for the spray application of Electrodag RFI shielding coating, so we manufacture the enclosure sets in China, then ship them to Boston, Massachusetts USA.

By vertically integrating the entire process of conceptual design, electro-mechanical engineering, component and assembly design for manufacture, electronics hardware and software design, toolmaking and finally complete product manufacturing through a single source we truly provide a one-stop product design, development and manufacturing solution for our clients.

PIR Light Level and Occupancy Detection Products

Our client, a leading supplier of an electrical product range to the construction industry, needed a plastic casing of superior quality, with added functionality for easy installation and setup for a new PIR product range. The design would need to function as a casing for two products; one a light-level sensor and the other an occupancy detector, both of which would trigger lighting changes according to pre-determined parameters.

Our engineers worked very closely with the client to create and engineer a casing product that can be cost-effectively manufactured in batches as required, with zero returns thanks to our stringent Chinese quality control procedures.

Our mission is to supply the best quality custom product manufacturing solution without compromise; TQ is a truly unique company with true added value for our clients because project management of all stages of product design & development are undertaken by TQ's in-house staff in UK and China.

Specialist Retail Lighting Products

Our expertise and creative approach to industrial design and mechanical design enables us to bring solutions to specialist areas such as light fittings, in which reliable heat transfer and dissipation are vital.

We design and manufacture a range of components and sub-assemblies for products including dimmable halogen reading lights for one of our Buckinghamshire clients. We are working in partnership with our client on a long-term programme to design and develop a new LED lighting range.

Products we have designed and developed; Dect phones, IP phones, USB phones, video phones, video intercom phones, routers, laser printers, set-top DVB boxes, DVR digital recorders, portable blood sampler, patient monitor, de-fibrilator ,geiger counter, pat tester, eco heat saving products, satelite receivers, HDD products, rfid products, bar scanners, finger-print entry system, educational products, beauty products and many more.

Industrial Switchgear

Our brief was to create a new suite of tools for making parts that would be interchangeable between existing and new tools. In order to accomplish this, we needed to first generate 3D models from a combination of two data sources: original 2D drawings without drafts and the existing plastic parts which did not conform to the original data. This required reverse-engineering and reconciling the data sources and producing mechanical 3D data. Finally, we manufactured multi-impression injection mould tooling for production.

Q provides a full European standard toolmaking service using our associate Chinese injection toolmakers. We make export tools for the UK and Europe; because we have a UK office and UK toolmaking partner we can deliver the tooling quality that export markets expect.

Standard tools are made for component manufacture as part of a TQ design / tooling / manufacturing project. This applies to aluminium die castings, compression tooling for thermoset material, sheet steel progression formings and other parts made by various processes in a variety of materials as well as injection moulds made for plastic.