BY: ISMAIL TAG ELDIN

DESIGN HOUSE MANAGER

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AGENDA
1. What is Design House?
2. Services Offered by Design House
3. Facilities of the Design House & Nile University
4. External Cooperation
5. Target Audience

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What is Design House?
Design House is an entity that supports Startups and SMEs in translating
their product requirements into reality by following a rigorous and tested
SOP for product development and reverse engineering.
It is aimed at enabling/energizing the manufacturing and product design
environment in Egypt through several funded services as part of
Nilepreneur Initiative.

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 Design House and Nilepreneur
BDS Hub Media and Training Design House Fu
Business Operations Marketing
Pr
Stategy
Foundation
IT

Service

Service
Pillar
Finance & Control

Pillar
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InnovationChallenge
Activities
Growth

WomenEmpower
Design House Services
Support startups from ideation to
MVP

Provide technical training to

Entrepreneurs

Cooperate with SMEs in growing their

products

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How we
• Idea Generation
support 1

startups? 2 • Idea Screening

We work with entrepreneurs in
assessing their ideas and
improving them then going through 3 • Technical Feasibility
technical feasibility and developing
their products, its structure,
aesthetic design or mechatronic
system till we have a working 4 • Product Development
prototype with a detailed

• Prototyping
manufacturing process as well.
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Working with Challenge program
Determine and assess feasible
challenges for entrepreneurs

Provide mentorship till they an MVP

Support Matchmaking of these

entrepreneurs with larger companies

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 New product
Focus training development
areas by
Design House Reverse Engineering
Design house provides several
training in technical areas
supporting the Egyptian industry
and specifically the Engineering
industries
Development Tools

Vocational training

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Training offered by design house
• Siemens NX CAD Software Training
• Solid works CAD Software Training
Developed • New product development cycle
• Innovation and benchmarking tools

• Industrial Design for products

• Reverse Engineering using Faro Design Scan Arm
Being Developed • Prototyping techniques and tools
• FEM Analysis and Simulation software

• Pneumatics, Hydraulics, CNC, Robotics and PLC systems by FACT Center

Cooperation • Electronics Design including cicuits design, PCB design, embedded by

Innovation Hub
• Vocational Training through multinational companies

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 Production Equipment
Support development
Growth of
SMEs
Design house provides several
services that are tailored to support
Standardization and
growth of small to medium
companies other than tools
Export capacity
provided before. development

New Product
development/Design
improvement

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 Designing production equipment
Obtain functional requirements and
resources on equipment needed

Determine budget requirement and

project timeline

Develop the Equipment in close

cooperation with process requirement

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Helping SMEs with export
• Analysis of Product requirements.
Analysis • How to improve the product.
• How to make it export friendly.

• Support SMEs with standardization by working with local quality

institutes.
Standardization • Cooperating with the company in improving their product to comply
with standards.

Matchmaking • Support Matchmaking activities of SMEs with governmental entities

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design/improve product portfolio
• Obtain Functional requirements or working
Step 1 sample to improve

• Develop Aesthetic design of product

Step 2 in case of customer facing products

• Conduct detailed design on

Step 3 product and prototyping

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Design House Facilities
Design and Reverse Engineering Tools

Prototyping Tools and Equipment

Nile University Labs and Facilities

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Design and
Reverse
Engineering
Tools
We have chosen Siemens NX a
world class design software for our
product development services as
well as 3D Scanner from Faro to
support us in providing best
support possible.

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Prototyping
Lab and
Workshop
We have a prototyping and
benchmarking lab that is supported
by a Multijet Printer from 3D
systems and Various Workshop
tools

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Nile University Facilities
FACT Center

Innovation Hub

Research Centers

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 Pneumatics control basics and advanced

Hydraulics, Electro-Hydraulics, Porportional

FACT Center
Festo authorized certified training Electrical Drives: DC and AC
center, this center provides several
vocational training services in area
of the industry that affect almost
every manufacturing, packaging or
process company. CNC Basics and Advanced

Automation control and PLC programming

Robot Assembly Station

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FACT Center Facilities
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Innovation Hub
The purpose of this lab is to provide complete continuous technical support and
guidance to any electronics and mechatronics projects, its capabilities include:

Circuit boards
PCB Design Prototyping
and electronics
Equipment Tools
components

Electronics Mentorship &

Training consultation

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Innovation Hub activities and Equipment
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 Governmental Entities
External
Cooperation
We cooperate with various entities Manufacturing workshops
in order to provide full coverage for
the SMEs and startups we are
working with.

Service providers and consultants

Large and Multinational companies

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Target Audience
Entrepreneurs

Small to medium sized companies

Interested in Engineering Industries

Technically oriented with Industry knowledge

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Thank you

Contact: Itageldin@NU.edu.eg

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