Providing engineering design solutions to industry since 2003.

Experience of metrology, aerospace, nuclear, semiconductor, defence, process and manufacturing industries.

Implicit Design Ltd, established in March 2003, was succeeded by Matchless Design Ltd in 2016. These companies have provided contract design services to clients across various sectors using a range of CAD software.

The owner, and sole employee, is Neil Maddock, CEng MIMechE. I was sponsored by Renishaw through my Mechanical Engineering course at Loughborough University graduating in 1984 with a BTech (Hons) 2(i). Since then I have worked in engineering design across a range of organisations and industries gaining a wide variety of valuable experience:

  • 1984 to 2003 as employee in number of companies

  • 2003 and 2020 as contract design engineer on a number of customer sites.

  • 2020 to 2024 worked remotely on design packages for Edwards Vacuum agreeing the design specification, finalising the design (after joint reviews), creating and checking manufacturing drawings and ordering parts for either the development laboratory or customer field trials.

  • Aug 2024 provided CAD models and images for Astral Systems in support of a bid.

40 years in engineering design.
Worked in broad range of organisations from large, highly regulated companies to a University research centre.
Design for manufacture using precision machining, fabrication and welding, sheet metal, casting, forging, moulding, surface coating and 3D printing processes.
An engineering design services company based in central Bristol.

Our Services

With a flexible, proactive approach Matchless Design Ltd provides design services across the entire design cycle from initial specification through design and product development phases into full production to meet your project timescales.

Without the overheads of larger organisations Matchless Design Ltd provides proven, cost-effective and flexible design services on an hourly, daily or fixed price basis either remotely, on-site or hybrid.

Matchless Design Ltd can use your CAD system or rent Solidworks, Solid Edge or Inventor CAD packages as required. Mathcad is used for any design calculations.

Matchless Design Ltd has professional indemnity and public and employer's liability insurance.

  • Writing of Design Specifications

  • Concept Design

  • Detailed Design

  • Drawing Creation and Checking

  • Design Checks and Reviews

  • Scoping Calculations

  • GD&T and Tolerance Analysis

  • Supplier Liaison

  • Quotation and Bid Preparation