Product engineering services play a central role in turning ideas into real, usable products. From the first rough concept to the final handoff for manufacturing, product engineering covers everything: planning, design, development, testing, and support.

Product engineering service or PES combine hardware, embedded systems, software, and IT to build reliable, efficient, and cost-effective products. Companies often partner with engineering service providers to manage the complexity of this process without pulling focus from their core business.

Product engineering is the structured process of designing and developing a product from the ground up. It involves defining the idea, shaping its architecture, creating its design, and then moving through development, testing, release, and long-term support.

This work often spans multiple disciplines—mechanical, electronic, embedded, and software engineering—all working together to produce a product that meets technical, functional, and business goals.

There are seven main stages that define a typical product engineering cycle:

This is where it starts. A product concept is shaped and requirements are defined. Teams look at feasibility—whether the idea is worth building and how it fits into market needs.

Once the idea is approved, the next step is to break it down into physical and functional blocks. This phase determines what the product will include and how different components will work together.

Engineers create models, refine structures, and work through multiple versions until the final design is locked in. User experience, cost constraints, and performance targets all influence the result.

Designs are built into actual working systems. This stage includes prototyping, coding, board development, and more. The goal is to create a version that’s fully functional and production-ready.

Rigorous testing ensures the product works as expected. Faults are flagged and resolved. The team validates performance, safety, compatibility, and reliability before anything goes to market.

After testing, the product is introduced to the market. Feedback from users is collected to guide updates and fix any missed issues.

Support doesn’t end after release. This phase involves updates, maintenance, bug fixes, and, when needed, re-engineering to keep the product relevant. Some companies evolve their products over time, based on new needs and changing tech standards.

Product companies face ongoing pressure to deliver reliable products quickly, control costs, and reduce risks. At the same time, they need to improve how they manage their product lines and respond to changing demands.

What often makes the difference isn’t just the idea behind the product—it’s how well that idea is shaped, built, tested, and supported. That’s where Product Engineering Services step in. They allow businesses to focus on strategy and customer needs, while a dedicated team takes care of technical development from start to finish.

The right PES partner brings practical skills across experience design, web and mobile development, cloud systems, DevOps, data handling, and infrastructure. That range of support helps reduce delays, fix issues early, and keep the product aligned with real business goals.

• Add advanced features and improve functionality
• Launch products faster without compromising quality
• Cut costs while keeping engineering standards high
• Support future updates and maintenance with ease

Companies use PES not just to extend internal teams but to bring in focused expertise at each step of the product cycle.

At Utthunga, we help product companies design, develop, and sustain high-quality products. Our services span across embedded systems, cloud platforms, software development, and industrial protocol integration. The goal is to provide engineering support that’s technically sound, flexible, and built for long-term reliability.

Here’s what we offer:

• Embedded Engineering – hardware, firmware, system design, validation
• Digital Engineering – cloud, mobile platforms, analytics, IIoT
• Software Engineering – applications across embedded and enterprise systems
• Quality Engineering – application testing, device testing, protocol testing, test automation,  testing as a service (Taas), and DevOps
• Data Connectivity and Integration – OPC solutions, industrial protocols, field device integration

• Asset and device management tools
• OPC and industrial data integration
• Digital engineering, customer-focused digital interfaces
• Cloud, Edge Computing, Device & Data Analytics
• IT/OT system integration
• Engineering of controllers, IO modules, and host devices

We also offer engineering accelerators and frameworks that reduce product development time and help minimize issues after release:

• DPI (Device Programming Interface)
• uOPC Suite
• Protocol Stacks
• IIoT Accelerators (Javelin and uConnect)
• Application Test Automation Framework

Need expert support across your product development cycle or to scale up your engineering efforts? Our Product Engineering Services are built to support your goals—connect with us to learn more.

Machine monitoring:

Industrial automation systems leverage embedded software development capabilities to monitor the system’s condition in real-time through controlled monitoring of variables like power, flow rate, vibration, pressure, temperature, and more. The monitoring devices such as sensors and probes communicate with each other and/or the client-server systems located in the internet or cloud via the industry communication protocols such as MTConnect, HART, EtherNet/IP etc.
Aggregated data from the disparate data sources is then stored in the cloud or a centralised database for real-time analysis to provide actionable insights through dashboards, reports and notifications. It is a proactive approach to maintaining plant uptime/reliability; reduce production losses and maintenance costs. Industrial embedded systems can perform machine monitoring to help improve productivity, optimize equipment capabilities and measure performance.

Machine control:

Using embedded system engineering services in various industrial equipment to perform specific range of tasks such as controlling assembly line speeds, fluid flow rates in a CNC machine, controlling robotic machinery etc. changed the industrial automation landscape. Communicating at the I/O level via PLCs, these systems easily integrate with the existing machine controls, leveraging automation software along with proprietary NC and CNC functionality. Industrial OEMs and manufacturing plants, can hence benefit from reduced maintenance costs, achieve a centralised and unified control architecture and optimize their performance capabilities and overall product quality.

Leverage Utthunga’s embedded systems capabilities

Industrial OEMs and plant owners vision of Industry 4.0 and IIoT is total and complete automation of the industrial network through intelligent machines and digital systems. The new communication and information techniques mandate:

1. Localization and networking of all systems using energy-efficient systems that transfer only the required information
2.  Strong security measures for secure data transfer
   Our embedded engineering services including but not limited to system/product design and wireless SoC based product development (firmware/stack/hardware), IoT allows us to provide complete end-to-end solutions for the OEMs, process and factory-manufacturing units to address the above-mentioned embedded engineering problems.
   Faced with the wide range of embedded system applications, multiple opportunities and challenges, they can realize both economic and performance breakthroughs by opting for Utthunga’s team of highly skilled and embedded professionals certified in product design, firmware architecture, hardware architecture, verification & validation, certifications and a strong partner for PCB fabrication and prototyping.
   One of the key enablers for smart manufacturing is the embedded OPC-UA technology that has enabled industrial devices to communicate in a standard, scalable and secure format. Utthunga’s embedded software development services proficiency can help them to achieve platform independence and interoperability to overcome the increased client/server complexity. Our embedded solutions leverage machine learning, AI, and data analytics to help monitor and control the HMIs, vision, PLCs, and motion solutions while offering recommendations for better performance, greater embedded system logic, control, and scalability.

Our embedded stack development services leverages our competencies in embedded technologies to keep pace with the rapidly evolving machine monitoring and machine control requirements and provide embedded industrial automation solutions related to:

1. Product Design and Development:
   • End to end product development
   • Firmware, hardware application development
   • Electro mechanical product development
2. Process Automation:
   • Metering application
   • Loop powered design and development
   • IS certification engineering service
   • Sensor integration and sensor application development
3. Factory Automation:
   • Condition monitoring
   • IoT gateway
   • Edge computing
   • Enable legacy machines for IoT
   • Industrial protocol simulator
   • Wireless application development
4. Oil and Gas Services:
   • Industrial I/O module development
   • Sensor module development
   • Level transmitter design and development

Please visit our website or contact us directly to learn more about our embedded software development services and systems expertise.