SKY LAU
Selected work

Nineteen years of products that made it to production.

From consumer electronics carried by millions to precision components inside industrial and medical manufacturing lines — here's a selection of what I've designed and architected, in-house, across four employers.

Sony — in-house

Consumer Electronics

Mechanical design and DFM for noise-cancelling headphones and earphones, from concept through to mass production.

Sony MDR-NC7 headphones
Sony

MDR-NC7 Noise-Cancelling Headphones

Sony MDR-NC40 headphones
Sony

MDR-NC40 Noise-Cancelling Headphones

Sony MDR-NWNC33B earphones
Sony

MDR-NWNC33B Noise-Cancelling Earphones

Sony MDR-NC100D earphones
Sony

MDR-NC100D Digital Noise-Cancelling Earphones

Also designed: additional earphone models and MP4 players, in-house at Sony.

Schneider Electric & IFM — in-house

Industrial & Medtech

Full mechanical design and design-for-manufacture for industrial hardware, plus automation system architecture for regulated medical device manufacturing lines.

IFM O8 photoelectric sensor
IFM

O8 Miniature Photoelectric Sensor

Schneider EMR relay socket
Schneider Electric

EMR Relay Socket

Automation system architecture — plunger line
Automation architecture

Manufacturing line systems for medtech device makers

Architected automation systems — integration, vision, assembly and fixture design — for manufacturing lines at ResMed, Philips, Insulet, Intuitive Surgical, Illumina and Roche.

Automation architecture for
ResMedPhilipsInsuletIntuitive SurgicalIlluminaRoche

Client names listed as architecture-level engagements; detailed case studies available on request, subject to confidentiality agreements.