Informative Links
- Test Fixture and MEMS Test Fixture Design
- Circuit Design
- Semiconductor Fab Equipment Design
- Instrument Design for the Chemical, Biotech and Life Sciences Industry
Portfolio of
Example Projects
Contactor for High Brightness LED Test Fixture
Components for Custom Si Wafer Cutting Machine
Custom Test Fixture for RF PCB Testing
About
Company Background
My name is
Hans Henning and I am the principal engineer at Henning Engineering. I
am an electrical engineer that also has a background in mechanical engineering. Additionally,
I am also a skilled machinist. I combine these skills to provide industry with unique
solutions to some challenging engineering problems.
I have always had a passion for designing and building things. My first summer job, as a high school student, was working at Bell Labs designing and building mechanical components for equipment used in atomic physics experiments. I started my own personal machine shop when I was 16. Outside of work you can often find me working on designing something. I my spare time I design and build my own bicycles, underwater cameras, and dive lights. All this has had a profound influence on how I work as an engineer.
The following are some key principals I learned that have been helpful to me and that I adhere to on every job that I do:
- I feel that there is something special about actually building and participating in the assembly of my own designs. All too often, I see engineers in industry do a paper design or draw something in CAD, send the parts out for fab, and then walk away. When you sit down and do the grunt work, whether it is breadboarding a circuit or assembling the parts to your own design, there is a kind of experience you gain that a text book or CAD system cannot give you. You get to see and experience the consequences of your design firsthand.
- Also, as a machinist, I often have machined the parts that I designed. Machining your own parts is an excellent way to develop the design skills that are necessary to create clean, simplistic, robust, practical, and manufacturable parts. Of the people I have worked with, those who had good machining skills, regardless of their profession, were all capable of good mechanical design.
- Work with, listen to, and accept feedback from the customer. Every customer that I have ever worked with has either taught me something or given me good ideas that I would have never thought of on my own.
This is the philosophy of design that I follow and is the engineering advantage that I can offer to you.
Why Us
- We spend the time working with you onsite to understand your application.
- Our small size allows a more personal working relationship. You do not have to deal with a large company where your project is one of several and the cost is typically much higher.
- Our in house prototyping and shop facilities makes us especially valuable as a resource to start-ups since it allows us to build, make changes to, and modify prototype designs on the fly.
- The scope of the project can be small. In fact a small project can be the best way to establish a relationship with us. It allows you to gain confidence in us by making use of our services with little risk on your part.
Core Capabilities
- Analog, Digital, and Mixed Signal board level electronic design
- Electro-Mechanical Test Fixture Design
- Seamlessly integrated electronic and mechanical design
- Opto-Mechanical Design
- High performance PC board design
- Product Design
- Precision Mechanisms
- Machine design
- Manufacturing and fabricating techniques
- Design for manufacturability, testability, reliability, and ease of maintenance
Selected Client List:
Bell Laboratories
Credence Systems
GenRad
Luminus Devices
QD Vision
TeraDiode
Doble Engineering
ETEC
Bird Technologies
Static Clean International
Dimensional Photonics International
Focus Test
PowerTech
Cisco Systems