2. Businesses suffer from seasonal workflow, and thus
employing in-house specialists to design and
engineer core products is a year-long commitment
and an unnecessary drain on profits.
DesignBrief is a one-stop-shop service with
streamlined contract management, artwork delivery,
and project management within any type of prototype
tooling.
We leverage on the capabilities of our experienced in-
house design team, with the flexibility to obtain
additional capacity by subcontracting projects to a
broad network of approved partners.
Our services are targeted towards companies from a
broad range of industries, with a particular focus on
product design, manufacturing, engineering, and civil
engineering companies, offering them the great
advantage of obtaining on-demand premium quality
design and management while keeping a flexible
structure.
WHY DESIGNBRIEF EXISTS
3. WHAT WE
OFFER AND
PROVIDE
Machined CNC
Prototyping
Cast
Component &
Assemblies
design
Project
Management
Consultancy
Mechanical
Engineering
Promotional
and advertising
strategies
Logo Design
Prototype
Design & Supply
Product Design,
APQP, PPAP
Illustration
Concept Design Proof Reading
Gauge Design &
Supply
1st, 3rd Angle
projection 2d
manufacturing
drawings
Tooling
Manufacture
Extrusion
Tooling Design
FMEA
Simulation
Injection
Moulding Tool
Design
Lean
Manufacturing
Design
3D Art &
Animation
3D Printing
3D Scanning
2D or 3D
isometric parts
lists
Method
Engineering &
Cost saving
4. WHAT WE
OFFER AND
PROVIDE Content
Marketing
Business
drawings
Multimedia
3d wireframe
models
Product
Development &
Testing
Floor Planning –
Heat maps,
process
Graphic Design
PR & Event
Management
Copy Writing
Fashion Design
Transport – Rail,
air, sea, road
and space
Schematic
drawings
Architect,
Technologist &
technicians
Technical,
manufacturing,
layouts, cabling
visuals etc.
Planning
Permission
drawings
Thermal
Simulations
Fenestration,
Fabrication and
Installation
PDF conversion
to CAD
3D Line
diagrams
3D exported
parts lists
3D rendered
drawings
Isometric
Drawings
General
assembly
drawings
Assembly Clash
Detection
5. WHAT WE
OFFER AND
PROVIDE
Annual
Accounts book
(design)
Specialised Areas – F1,
sporting (cycling to
yachting), Defence
(armour design to
weapons system design)
UI / UX
Development
Sales strategy &
implementation
FF& E Design
Patent
Drawings
Civil
Engineering
Fire risk
assessment
drawings
Fire alarm zone
drawings
CGI & 3D
Rendering
3D virtual
reality,
augmentation
Website
development
Fire emergency
escape
diagrams
Design
Engineering
Press & Clip
tooling Design
& Supply
Retail & Fashion
Sketch
conversions
Furniture Design
Structural
Engineering
Pattern tooling
design & supply
BIM –
Management,
model and
coordinate
Sheet metal
work -
assemblies,
developments
6. Our uniqueness comes from our capability to
provide customers from a broad range of
industries with a seamless outsourcing experience
and to deliver customized professional design and
artwork solutions.
Having a one stop service means we can provide
the expertise, control the workflow, complete any
analysis and BOM breakdowns, methoding and
project plans.
Varied knowledge is better understanding. This
makes our DesignBrief Partner Network a very
valuable and reliable asset in ensuring our clients
get the very best than by just going to a stand-
alone business, one by one with little or no
collaboration at all.
For example, a machinist will machine to a
drawing, but not knowing what it's for, they will
naturally overlook mistakes the client may have
made or couldn't comment on suggesting better
machining methods.
WHY DESIGNBRIEF?
There is a great amount of data to absorb
and DesignBrief can do that with planning
strategies such as PRINCE2.
Working this way will reduce your business
costs as everything is effectively managed
from start to finish by DesignBrief.
7. IS IT MORE COST-EFFECTIVE
TO EMPLOY OR OUTSOURCE?
IN-HOUSE CAD VS
CAD OUTSOURCING
The true cost of a worker is strictly speaking
something beyond their yearly compensation.
There is no point in making an expense correlation
between utilizing a CAD Technician and CAD
outsourcing if the true cost of employment is not
known.
Given the fact that the average salary of a CAD
Technician is solely subject to experience and CAD
Software;
We can see from the graph a representation of how
the average salary of a CAD Technician has
increased during the years, going from £20,428 and
£34,089 (2015) to £23,345 and £37,500 (2021).
£20,428
£23,345
£34,089
£37,500
2015 2021
In-house Jnr. In-house Snr.
SOURCES: Payscale, Totaljob, Reed, Indeed and Glassdoor.
Average Salary of a CAD Technician
8. It ought to be noticed as well that if an organization is hoping to utilize a CAD
Technician who will be overseen by a non-CAD experienced Manager, a
profoundly talented and experienced CAD Technician should be utilized which
will lead to an increase in expenses.
On the contrary, if a company, which has no CAD expertise, employs an average
or even worse junior CAD Technician – failure is surely guaranteed. How can you
manage a person if you have no knowledge or experience of the task required?
Experience with the current job market shows that one should be able to employ
an experienced CAD Technician (not a designer) for £30,000. The next slide
shows the true cost of an employee including several factors such as: One-off
cost for CAD Software, Annual Subscription, Fees of CAD Software, CAD
Workstations (they are far more expensive than an average Office PC), Regular
Training, holidays, sick days, unproductive working etc.
IN-HOUSE CAD VS
CAD OUTSOURCING
9. IN-HOUSE CAD VS
CAD OUTSOURCING
£33,107
£1,593
£5,350
£4,100
Wages / Salary & NIC's Optional benefits Employee specific cost Appointment of Business
Costs
ANNUAL COST
Hours worked per week
37.5
Equivalent hourly rate
£15.38
Total Employee Cost
£44,150
ACTUAL PRODUCTIVE WORKING DAYS
Weekdays in a year
261
Holidays
in a year
28
Formal
training
5
Sick
days
7.2
Wasted/unproductive time
(allow 10 mins per working hour)
38
DEDUCTIONS:
Actual Productive Working days
183.3
THE TRUE COST OF EMPLOYEE
Actual cost per hour
£32.12
Actual Cost per day
(total costs/working days
£240.89
Actual cost per year
£62,630.13
Multiple of salary paid
2.09
10. IN-HOUSE CAD VS
CAD OUTSOURCING
This graph shows that the true cost of an employed CAD
Technician is £32.12 per hour whereas the average cost
of subcontracting professional CAD services ranges
between £35 and 95£.
It should also be noted that the unproductive time
specified is only 10min per hour. Surveys have shown
that this can be up to 1/3. (Source -
https://www.vouchercloud.com/resources/office-
worker-productivity)
On the other hand, a CAD Outsourcing Company will
operate far more efficiently as CAD is their core business
and there will be systems in place to maximize efficiency
such as libraries, templates and a team of people to use
for knowledge.
Unsurprisingly this visual representation shows that a full
time employed CAD Technician is cheaper than
outsourcing, but this is only if the CAD Technician would
be working on CAD every single hour of every working
day for a full year without wasting any productive time.
Cost per year over Utilization
£0
£10,000
£20,000
£30,000
£40,000
£50,000
£60,000
£70,000
£80,000
£90,000
Cost
Per
Year
Utilization
100% Utilization is the equivalent of 253 working days or
2024 working hours.
The graph shows an intersection point at 78% utilization.
This means that if the employer can guaranty 1579 hours
of CAD work per year it will be more cost-effective to
employ someone, if not use a CAD outsourcing company.
Based on this we can state that outsourcing will
definitely give you extra peace of mind.
Outsourcing CAD
at £40/hour
True Cost of a
CAD Technician
Breakeven
11. CAD Technicians managed by a CAD
Manager, who understands how to translate
your requirements into CAD, which CAD
processes to use and how to check
drawings against industry standards.
No minimum hour requirements
Increase your existing CAD team on demand
allowing you to tender for larger contracts
Only pay for what you use
Employ a professional team of
CAD Technicians with a range of
industry experience. This results in
a vast pool of knowledge,
experience and expertise.
IN-HOUSE CAD VS CAD OUTSOURCING
Design your life
with DesignBrief
12. WHAT UNIQUE VALUES
DO WE OFFER?
The design services industry is extremely
distributed but lacks strong incumbents
with a value proposition beyond vertical
focus on specific design outputs and price
convenience, leaving room for firms
capable to connect expertise in every
area of the creative industries and a first-
class service to become a go-to solution
for every business customer in need.
design freelance
marketplaces**
e.g., Upwork, Toptal, Fiverr,
Freelancer.com, 99designs, etc.
freelancers or small
agencies
e.g., Small Backroom, Ditto
Creative, Dusted, Truth Creative
etc.
inhouse designers or big
agencies
e.g.,Jones Knowles Ritchie, Studio
Makgill, Turner Duckworth, Horse
etc.
NO YES
NO
YES
DESIGNBRIEF
PREMIUM QUALITY OUTCOME
STRONG
FLEXIBILTY
** You need to do an extensive search and go through
considerable number of profiles to get premium quality providers.
14. We supply an
evaluated
proposal
Launch
project &
collaborate
Handover
creative content
Sign off
JOIN US AND BRING LIFE TO YOUR IDEAS - WHAT TO EXPECT?
BRIEF
We submit
an official
quotation
Get a 3D
prototype
(for certain
projects)
STEP 6
STEP 5
STEP 4
STEP 3
STEP 2
STEP 1
15. Data is knowledge,
and knowledge is
powerful when design
and creativity rule on
a DesignBrief.
DESIGN
YOUR LIFE
DesignBrief Consultancy Limited
Company Number: 13402712
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