Koga BV: R&D and Product Manager

As R&D manager I worked with a small team of specialists in Industrial Design, Engineering, FEM, Testing, Quality and Styling. We gradually started to turn Koga into a more distinguishable and unique brand. Unique in the way we design and engineer the separate components for our bikes which together form a perfect, complete, lightweight and clean looking bike. With more than 20 award winning bikes and parts in the last 8 years this approach proved to be very successful. Together with sales our department was responsible for Koga’s long and short terms vision and roadmap.

Neopost: Mechanical Engineer R&D department

Neopost develops but also produces their parts and mounts and packs their machines in house. This means you are very close to the product you develop as an engineer. Direct discussion between production, assembly and service departments guarantee a functional and feasible product for the right price with a lot of attention for ergonomics and design. In several projects I was responsible to choose the right production technics to make the ideas of our  Product Designer feasible. Challenge was to find the right technics and to keep cost within the budget.  With one of our products, SI-68, we won an IF Design Award.

Graduation paper

FEM calculation on a sidecar (motorcycle) frame with use of Ansys 5.0. Based on this calculation the sidecar got approved to ride on the road.