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Innovation Hub
Force-4 is a force for innovation. We help clients take ideas to market faster, with less cost and fewer issues after launch. How do we do it? We are a division of Stress Engineering Services, which empowers us to seamlessly integrate engineering services throughout the development process to deliver solutions to create products that are indispensable to the end user. See some game-changing products we’ve delivered for clients across the Medical, Consumer Products, Al, Human Centered design, and more.
Virtual Simulation of ISTA Unit Load Tests
Our team utilizes simulations of warehouse and transportation performance to improve product design before creating physical samples.
Simulating Primary Package Damage
The SES/Force-4 team designs and develops sustainable tray-based packaging systems that work!
Sustainability is the Driver for Flexible Packaging
The SES/Force-4 packaging engineering team designs innovative, durable flexible packaging. [fliph5 id="jsgdw-nbro"...
Improving Packaging—Testing Flow Rate in Squeeze Dispensers
Understanding and applying flow rate data is the cornerstone of improving squeeze dispensers. [fliph5 id="jsgdw-jtlx"...
SES/Force-4 Cuts Development Time on ProForce Package
We're experts at engineering consumer packaging that meet sustainability initiatives and save time in development....
Stress Engineering Services Wins the Ameristar Award
We're pleased to announce SES/Force-4 has won the Ameristar Award from the Institute for Packaging Professionals....
Testing and Design Experience Beyond the Ordinary
SES/Force-4's specialized testing equipment and data acquisition capabilities are hard to match. Learn about our...
Understanding the Effects of Shock & Impact Loads
Put the SES/Force-4 team to work for you during the design process to help you minimize the effects of shock and...
Creating Advantage with Industrial Internet of Things
Force-4 has the IIot experience to make the difference in your success to-market. [fliph5 id="jsgdw-sxyw"...
Your Partner in Extending the Life of Rolling Stock
Force-4 has the Iot experience to make the difference in your success to market. [fliph5 id="jsgdw-encx"...
IIoT and Machine Learning
SES/Force-4 transforms machine components and mechanics into online sensors that provide real-time operational data....
Custom Automation & Process Equipment Development
SES/Force-4's disciplined approach ensures your manufacturing lines consistently meet specifications. [fliph5...
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Applying Machine Learning and AI to develop and deploy systems for products, industrial equipment and manufacturing....
Innovations in E-Commerce Packaging for Cold Chain
Force-4 developed a real-time cold chain packaging packaging optimization tool to ensure product integrity throughout...
Specialized Automation and Process Equipment Development
Solve some of the most challenging manufacturing and process automation tasks with help from the experts at the...
Innovations in E-Commerce Packaging
Developing liquids packaging design solutions to eliminate e-commerce leakage. [fliph5 id="jsgdw-vdmr"...
Cracked Equipment in Food and Pharma Processing
THE CHALLENGE Cracks are a common form of damage that affects equipment such as spray dryers, heat exchangers, and...
EU’s Sustainability Initiatives will Change US Packaging Forever
European Union Sustainability Directives The EU has made a very strong regulatory commitment to sustainability...
Predict Stress & ESC Cracking
SES can help you Predict Stress & ESC Cracking in Plastics and Elastomers. [fliph5 id="jsgdw-ycjr" width="1200px"...
Delayed Cracking in Plastics
SES can help you avoid Delayed Cracking In Plastics a leading cause of failures and end-user complaints. [fliph5...
Creating Connection with User Experience in Product Design
-A Survey of Key Development Points for Consideration We live in a time when personal human experience is often sought...
Polymer Laboratory
Material Data are Critical to Make Informed Product and Process Engineering Decisions [fliph5 id="jsgdw-sxxu"...
It’s time to rethink your engineering partnerships.
Take your engineering to the next level. Keep in touch with us....
Move more reliable medical devices to market in less time.
The SES/Force-4 Team uses proven alternatives to the traditional build-test-modify-repeat model for developing medical...
Human factors engineering enables you to design innovative products!
Heuristic Analysis + PCA Analysis + FMEA & FTA + Formative Evaluation + Summative Evaluation [fliph5...
Reliability of Combination Products
Reliability Definition & Planning/Reliability Modeling & Prediction/Reliability Testing Analysis/Reliability...
Innovations in E-commerce for Cold Chain
Using Real-Time Simulation for Optimized Packaging Solutions in Pharma & Grocery Cold Chain.[fliph5...
Materials datasheets aren’t wrong – they’re just not (always) relevant.
Testing under relevant conditions for relevant results We’ve all been there. Maybe we need to select a new (or...
The European green deal and its impact on CPG packaging.
Jay Z. Yuan, Clinton A. Haynes, Steve DeHoff, Rich Chomik Stress Engineering Services, Inc. The European Union has...
Improve sustainability with tray-based unit loads.
Jay Z. Yuan, Clinton A. Haynes, Steve DeHoff, Rich Chomik Stress Engineering Services, Inc. At an April 2008...
Characterizing flexible packaging films and thin, rigid plastics.
Fluid Filled Flexible Packaging Clinton A. Haynes, Diana Brown, Douglas L. Marriott Stress Engineering Services,...
Accelerate sustainable, flexible package development.
Jay Z. Yuan, Clinton A. Haynes Stress Engineering Services, Inc. Sustainability is the Driver for Flexible Packaging...
Reducing the Cost of HPP Package Development
Jay Z. Yuan, Mandar M. Kulkarni, Clinton A. Haynes and Steve Gosling Stress Engineering Services, Inc., 7030 Stress...
Plastic Product, Package, Component and Material Testing & Analysis Services
Material Testing and Characterization for Design and Analysis ...
Eliminate Warranty & Recall Risk
From Delayed Cracking of Plastic Products and Components Keep in...
SES Medical Technologies: Risk Management Approach
SES/Force4 team applies a Risk Management approach to the product development process that can reduce cost,...
Electronics Failure Investigation Case Study
Electronics Failure Investigation Case Study Keep in touch with...
A materials-based perspective for problem solving.
An introduction to a materials-based perspective for inclusion in engineering teams At its core, the field of...
AI and generative tools in industrial design.
Generative Product Design An Inevitable Progress for Human-Centered Industrial Design Artificial Intelligence (AI) is...
Human Observations, Insights and Activation
Human Observations, Insights and Activation. Force 4 is a design and innovation engine for product realization to take...
Sustainable Bottle Design: Molded Fiber vs. HDPE Reality
Stephen P. DeHoff, Jay Z. Yuan, Clinton A. Haynes and Andrew W. Gordon Stress Engineering Services, Inc., 7030...
What does reimagining a ladder have to do with medical innovation?
The world’s leading companies are always on the lookout for what’s next. It’s one of the biggest shifts in product...
Stress Engineering Services announces new leader for medical practice.
April 10, 2023, Cincinnati—Stress Engineering Services (SES) announced today that Michael Johnson is taking the helm...
Creating a better future through smart solutions.
Companies today face an unlimited number of challenges when it comes to innovation and problem-solving. National...
IoT and sensor development to rethink ladder safety.
While most people may have passed through March without recognizing it’s National Ladder Safety Month, for the...
Understanding User Needs
All product and device developers aim to conceive new innovative solutions to meet and exceed consumer needs and solve...
A New Blood Collection Device for Diagnostic Testing
Lab Suite Equipment for Blood Spot Testing THE CHALLENGE Expanding the volume and frequency of diagnostic testing,...
HYPERAUTOMATION: Manufacturing the Challenge
Per the Gartner Information Technology Glossary, hyperautomation is a business-driven, disciplined approach to rapidly...
Creating design to optimize shape, form, and function.
BEAUTY BY NUMBERS THROUGH PHYSICS-BASED DESIGN It is thought-provoking to observe that some manufactured items are...
Innovative solutions for a dual chamber pharma injection device.
THE PROJECT Force-4/SES Team shares the Gates Foundation’s future vision of a world where high-value pharmaceuticals...
Battery Charging Station for Large-Scale Medical Device Manufacturers
THE PROJECT Force-4 developed a battery charging system for medical devices to charge them to the designated state of...
Calibration Station Developed – Medical Device Manufacturing
THE PROJECT Develop a production in-line calibration station for a suture fastening system used in open surgical and...
New Product Introduction: Improved Packaging for Gatorade
Winning the race for a more efficient sustainable bottle Challenge: Delivering a Next Level Design and Achieving...
The Accelerated Quest to Gather Human-Centered Data
“Each person has an identity, a world unto themselves.” -Robert Allan Zimmerman For generations, business leaders have...
MD&M Tradeshow
Come see us at booth #2213 at the Medical Design & Manufacturing South (MD&M South) Trade Show! Visit us to...
Human Centered, Human Factors Design Engineering – A Lost Opportunity
This article discusses a failure in human factors engineering and the ergonometric design of a custom dispensing squeeze bottle.
Break the manufacturing automation and test equipment log jam.
There is a “perfect storm” when it comes to custom manufacturing automation and validated custom test equipment development.
An Argument for Human-Centered Design
The importance of human-centered design and human factors engineering in product and packaging design is punctuated by the serious burn injury and death of young children in fires caused by the spilling of gasoline near a gas-fired hot water heater.
MD&M East Tradeshow
Come see us at booth #928 at the MD&M East Trade Show! Click Here to get a free expo pass and 20% off a conference...
MD&M Minneapolis Tradeshow
Come see us at booth #2130 at the MD&M Minneapolis Trade Show! Click Here to get a free expo pass and 20% off a...
EcoVadis
Stress Engineering Services, Inc. (the parent company of Force-4) is among the TOP 25% of those assessed by EcoVadis!...
MDM Tradeshow
Come see us @ booth 2093 at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) Trade Show! Visit us to learn more about...
Formation of Force-4
Product Design Innovation - Formation of Force-4 Stress Engineering Services, Inc. (SES) announced today the formation...