For over 30 years, ASR has delivered trusted multidisciplinary engineering solutions by integrating aerospace, mechanical, and structural expertise with comprehensive design and analysis services including FEA, CFD, and 3D CAD, helping clients solve complex challenges across industrial, electromechanical, aerospace, mechanical, and structural systems.
Our broad project experience has built a team capable of strengthening your organization’s engineering capabilities exactly where needed. Whether a project requires refining a conceptual design, improving durability in demanding operating environments, preparing thermal, structural, or fluid analyses for qualification, or helping a product successfully pass rigorous testing, ASR provides the insight and engineering depth required to move development forward efficiently. We often serve as an extension of our clients’ internal teams, providing the advanced engineering support necessary to transition a concept into a robust, engineered solution.
Because many of the programs we support involve proprietary information or regulated engineering data, we routinely work under NDAs and operate within ITAR and other compliance frameworks when needed. All engineering work is performed in-house using our own resources, enabling clients to avoid investments in specialized staff, software, and infrastructure while gaining access to senior-level engineering capability.
Our collaborative approach ensures you receive clear communication, technically sound guidance, and reliable results from project kickoff through final delivery. ASR provides proven engineering experience, cost-effective scalability, and the ability to quickly supplement your team during times of peak demand or accelerated schedules.
Contact us to learn how ASR’s technical expertise, multidisciplinary capabilities, and cost-effective approach can support your next project.
How We Work
ASR follows a structured yet flexible engineering process designed to deliver accurate results, efficient execution, and transparent communication. Our workflow integrates seamlessly with client teams and adapts to projects ranging from rapid-turn analyses to multi-phase development programs.
We recognize that no two engineering projects are the same. Some projects are highly defined and predictable, allowing us to outline detailed scopes, expectations, and deliverables up front. Others are exploratory or developmental in nature, where requirements may evolve based on findings, testing, or discussion with the client. ASR is experienced in both modes of operation and adjusts our process to match the level of uncertainty, ensuring clarity, responsiveness, and technical rigor regardless of project complexity.
- Discovery & Scoping: We begin each project by understanding your technical objectives, constraints, schedule, and required deliverables. This includes reviewing existing data, defining the problem space, and identifying the analysis, calculations, and design activities needed for success.
- Proposal & Planning: Based on project requirements, whether fixed or evolving, we outline a clear scope of work, timeline, and expected outputs. For developmental projects, we define flexible decision points or phased pathways to accommodate directional changes while maintaining transparency and alignment.
- Engineering Analysis & Design Execution: Our engineers perform the required analysis and design work using comprehensive FEA, CFD, and 3D CAD tools, supported by detailed engineering calculations and additional engineering tools as needed. We apply multidisciplinary expertise across aerospace, mechanical, structural, industrial, and electromechanical systems to deliver reliable, technically sound results.
- Reporting, Documentation & Delivery: We produce clear, traceable engineering documentation including analysis reports, engineering calculations, CAD models, design recommendations, and manufacturing drawings. When a project requires a Professional Engineer’s approval, ASR can sign and seal the appropriate deliverables. Our documentation is developed for accuracy, clarity, and downstream use, supporting validation, verification, regulatory requirements, and efficient transition into manufacturing or further development.
- Iteration, Review & Ongoing Support: We refine results based on client feedback, updated requirements, or changes in design direction. ASR provides ongoing support throughout the lifecycle of the project, ensuring successful integration, implementation, and long-term performance. Developmental projects benefit especially from this iterative, client-aligned approach.
Core Capabilities
ASR provides a broad range of multidisciplinary engineering services that combine advanced analysis, practical design experience, and regulatory awareness. Our capabilities support projects across aerospace, mechanical, structural, industrial, and electromechanical systems.
Advanced Simulation and Analysis
ASR provides high-fidelity engineering analysis using FEA, CFD, and complementary analytical methods to evaluate structural behavior, thermal performance, fluid flow, vibration, dynamics, modal characteristics, impact response, and multiphysics interactions. Our simulation capabilities support design refinement, risk reduction, and system-level understanding across aerospace, mechanical, structural, civil, industrial, and electromechanical applications.
We apply these tools to assess how components and systems perform under real-world loads, environmental conditions, and operational scenarios, helping clients validate concepts, optimize designs, troubleshoot issues, and guide engineering decisions with confidence. Whether the goal is improving reliability, reducing weight, enhancing thermal performance, or characterizing dynamic and impact behavior, ASR’s analytical expertise provides the insight needed to move projects forward efficiently and effectively.
Engineering Design and 3D CAD
ASR develops complete design solutions ranging from conceptual layouts to detailed 3D CAD models and construction or manufacturing drawings. We create parametric models, assemblies, and fully defined drawing packages that support fabrication, construction documentation, and system integration. Our modeling and design capabilities enhance visualization, coordination, and downstream workflow efficiency across aerospace, mechanical, structural, civil, industrial, and electromechanical applications.
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Structural Engineering
Our multidisciplinary engineering expertise spans mechanical components, aerospace hardware, structural frames, support structures, industrial equipment, and electromechanical systems. We address strength, stiffness, fatigue, stability, vibration, thermal considerations, material selection, and integrated system performance across a wide range of applications.
ASR provides engineering support for firms across aerospace, mechanical, civil, and industrial sectors. This includes advanced analysis of components and assemblies, evaluation of building and structural elements, development of specialty connections and engineered details, and the design or refinement of custom mechanical or structural components. Our capabilities complement the work of engineering teams by providing deeper analytical insight, simulation-driven evaluation, and flexible design support.
Professional Engineering (PE) Services
ASR provides PE signed and sealed deliverables when required by a project, including structural, mechanical, and multidisciplinary engineering drawings or calculation packages. We are licensed in Massachusetts, and depending on jurisdiction and project needs, we can either pursue licensure in additional states or coordinate with a local Professional Engineer to meet your requirements.
Collaboration & Communication
ASR places a strong emphasis on collaboration, integrating seamlessly into your development process and adapting to the tools and workflows your team already uses. We maintain clear, consistent communication throughout each phase of a project and provide the technical context needed to support informed decision-making. Whether the effort involves early-stage concept development, detailed analysis and simulation, or refinement of a mature design, we work closely with your team to ensure alignment and transparency.
Our engineers regularly participate in design reviews, technical discussions, and iterative development cycles, helping to clarify requirements, evaluate alternatives, and guide a design toward robust performance. This partnership-focused approach enables us to supplement your internal engineering capability precisely when additional expertise or capacity is required. For projects that evolve as testing results, requirements, or market conditions change, we adapt quickly and maintain close dialogue to support smooth, responsive iteration.
Many of the programs we support involve sensitive intellectual property or export-controlled information. ASR follows strict confidentiality and data-handling practices and is fully prepared to operate under NDAs and within ITAR or other compliance requirements. This ensures that proprietary and regulated data remains secure throughout the course of the project.
Quality & Compliance
ASR is committed to producing engineering work that is accurate, traceable, and grounded in sound analytical principles. Every analysis, design, and deliverable undergoes internal review to verify the assumptions, methodologies, and conclusions, resulting in engineering output that withstands scrutiny and supports confident decision-making. Our work adheres to established engineering standards and applicable codes, making it suitable for both development-stage evaluation and qualification-level documentation.
Our process emphasizes clarity and rigor, from the construction of models through the interpretation of results to the preparation of final reports and documentation. Clients rely on us to provide simulation-driven insight that reduces the need for trial-and-error testing, accelerates development schedules, and supports challenging qualification requirements. Over the years, our analyses have helped numerous products succeed in demanding test environments while avoiding unnecessary design iterations.
ASR routinely supports projects involving proprietary and export-controlled data. We work under NDAs and can meet ITAR and other compliance requirements, ensuring that sensitive engineering information remains protected. When a project requires PE signed and sealed drawings or calculation packages, ASR can provide them in Massachusetts and can either pursue additional licensure or coordinate with a local Professional Engineer to satisfy jurisdictional requirements.
Our Value Proposition
ASR offers the technical depth of a comprehensive engineering department with the flexibility and responsiveness of a specialized consultancy. Clients choose us for our ability to deliver detailed engineering insight while reducing development risk, shortening timelines, and improving product performance. By combining advanced simulation capabilities with extensive multidisciplinary experience, we offer design guidance that accounts for performance requirements, manufacturability, real-world loading, cost considerations, and long-term reliability.
Our team expands your engineering capability when and where it is needed most. Some clients engage us to help navigate a specific analytical challenge or qualification effort, while others rely on ASR for extended development support or ongoing design refinement. This scalability allows organizations to maintain a lean internal engineering group while gaining access to high-level expertise during critical phases of a program.
Cost control is an additional advantage of working with ASR. Our clients avoid the overhead associated with hiring, training, software acquisition, and maintaining specialized engineering infrastructure. By paying only for the services required and leveraging ASR’s proven processes, companies improve efficiency without sacrificing capability. More importantly, they benefit from engineering deliverables that support a working design rather than isolated calculations, enabling more effective decision-making and more reliable products.
Ultimately, ASR provides a partnership grounded in technical rigor, practical insight, and responsive support, qualities that have helped many companies grow and succeed across multiple industries.
Ready to Discuss Your Project?
Whether you need advanced analysis, design refinement, structural review, or PE signed and sealed documentation, ASR is ready to help. Our support ranges from short-duration engineering tasks to multi-phase development programs, enabling your team to overcome technical challenges with clarity and confidence.
We are accustomed to working in secure and regulated environments and are fully prepared to sign NDAs or operate within ITAR and other compliance requirements. From the initial discussion onward, your project information is handled with the highest level of professionalism and confidentiality.
Contact us to discuss your project or request a proposal.
We will review your requirements, explore potential approaches, and determine how ASR’s multidisciplinary expertise can best support your goals—whether the need is highly focused or part of a complex, long-term initiative.
Representative Project Experience
ASR has contributed engineering expertise to a wide range of projects across aerospace, industrial systems, mechanical development, structural design, clean energy, and civil applications. While many of our projects are protected by confidentiality agreements, our work frequently includes advanced simulation, design refinement, system-level evaluation, and detailed documentation to support qualification or production readiness.
We have helped clients bring complex products through demanding performance tests, improve the reliability of mechanical and structural components, optimize large industrial systems, and support the development of aerospace hardware and electromechanical assemblies. Our experience with both early-stage concept evaluation and mature design verification allows us to adapt our approach to the specific needs and maturity level of each project.
Aerospace and Launch Vehicle Components
Mechanical and structural analysis of flight hardware and support systems, including load assessment, thermal considerations, vibration behavior, and integration of electromechanical assemblies.
Mechanical and Electromechanical Equipment
Design refinement, CAD development, and advanced simulation of mechanisms, enclosures, packaging, and precision assemblies requiring structural, thermal, or dynamic evaluation.
Structural Engineering Support
Analysis and design of custom components, frames, and specialty connections for industrial, modular, and civil applications, along with review of non-standard structural elements or engineered details.
Industrial and Clean Energy Systems
Engineering and analysis for multi-story industrial equipment, including structural evaluation, thermal analysis, fluid modeling, and mechanical design support for large modular process systems.
These examples reflect only a portion of our experience. ASR regularly assists clients with unique or unconventional engineering challenges, and we adapt our work to match project-specific requirements and industries.
What Our Clients Say
“We breathed a big sigh of relief when our product passed a stringent structural test. Thanks to ASR for helping us develop a cost-effective design that met this major milestone.” -Tom McLoughlin, Director of Engineering at HYTORC
“I was treated with the same respect and diligence as a scientist would be. Tapping into SATOP’s resources has been a phenomenal experience for Bassesloaded.” -Al Powell, SATOP Owner