Shea+Latone Design Development

Shea+Latone is a product design development consultancy offering services for offer 18 years. We offer services from concept to production including creative design, engineering, prototyping, and testing. Located in the suburban Philadelphia area we are a short drive from Philadelphia or New York City. We service a global clientele ranging from major corporations to single designers and entrepreneurs.

What truly sets us apart from other design firms is our large facility that handles a range of prototyping, fabrication, and testing needs. We offer in-house 3D printing services as well as making works like and looks like prototypes. Our shop can also fabricate production fixtures and assembly aids for your assembly lines.

Our testing lab is BIFMA listed for furniture testing and we can handle a range of standard or custom cycle and destructive tests. At Shea+Latone you don't just get a pass fail test report. We have a full staff to help develop solutions for even the toughest testing requirements.

Our studio provides us with over 15,000 square feet for our design development, fabrication, and testing services. The building houses our office area—equipped with multiple CAD stations, software for non-linear FEA, 3D printing, and project scheduling software – and our prototype shop—outfitted with woodworking, metalworking, finishing, milling, and turning equipment. Our prototype shop can also rapid prototype foam parts for many seating applications. Our full testing facility has over 20 stations for cycle and destructive testing. Our lab is BIFMA listed for furniture testing or we can develop a custom test for your product application.

Our specialties include: product design, prototyping, engineering services, product development, BIFMA Testing, furniture testing, 3D printing, cycle testing, production fixture design, linear and non-linear FEA and foam prototyping