Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, design safety engineering, inc. specializes in the risk assessment process and improving safety through design. Through software, training, and consulting, dse helps companies identify hazards and reduce risks to an acceptable level. dse assists companies in learning the basics through how to implement and deploy the process into the company. dse has had great success in applying the risk assessment process in a wide variety of industries and applications including industrial machinery, consumer products, manufacturing plants and facilities, component suppliers, and many others.
Our software has been applied to numerous industrial processes or systems; as well as industrial and commercial machinery and equipment. Some examples include:
Agricultural equipment
Automated baggage handling systems
Automotive assembly
Automotive component suppliers
Baking
Broaching machines
Bulk materials handling
Children’s products
Commercial ceiling systems
Commercial liquids manufacturing
Consumer electronics
Consumer products
Exercise equipment
Food
Foundries
Glass manufacturing
Glass products manufacturing
Government research projects for machinery safety
Handling systems for nuclear wastes
HVAC equipment
Industrial furnaces / boilers
Injection molding machinery
Insulation manufacturing systems
Lawn care equipment
Longshoring
Machine tools and machinery systems
Medical materials
Mining
Optics and coatings
Packaging machinery and equipment
Paper
Pharmaceutical
Plastic films
Plastics manufacturing
Power generations systems and equipment
Printing industries
Robotic applications
Saws
Semiconductor equipment
Specialty fabrics manufacturing
Specialty metals machinery
Steel manufacturing
Steel manufacturing
Steel products manufacturing
Warehousing / automated storage automated retrieval AS/RS
Window coverings
Wire manufacturing machinery
Another area of great accomplishment is with industrial and commercial machinery and equipment, such as:
Mechanical and industrial presses
Consumer Products
Meat slicing and packaging machinery
Juicer machines
Range (stove/oven)
Food processing machines
Laser etching machine
Industrial grinder
Industrial wood-working machines
Parts washing machine for clean room environment
Agricultural/commercial irrigating control system
Plastics extrusion machines
Parts packing machinery
dse is skilled in applying a variety of methods to reduce risk including design changes, guarding systems, warning labels, instructions, work procedures, use of PPE and others.
We are also active in litigation by acting as an expert witness in many product liability cases in a variety of industrial machinery, facilities and consumer products.