What D&P does

D&P S.r.l. is a privately held Italian engineering consulting company headquartered in Bergamo, Italy, founded in 1997. The firm delivers industrial design and engineering services across six industrial verticals: Industry & Energy (electromechanical), Aerospace & Space, Household Appliances, Consumer Products, Mechanical, and Ho.Re.Ca/Vending. It operates through two primary service models — Consulting (providing specialized technical professionals to clients) and Main Contractor (managing turnkey projects from concept through industrialization) — and supports the full product development lifecycle including 3D CAD design, FEM/CFD/multibody/crash structural analysis, tolerance chain analysis, prototype coordination, type testing, production documentation, bill of materials management, and manual creation.

The company operates with proficiency across a broad stack of CAD/CAE platforms (SolidWorks, CATIA V4/V5, Creo, Inventor, NX, Solid Edge, AutoCAD, SpaceClaim, ANSYS, SOLIDWORKS Simulation, FEMAP) and electrical design tools (SOLIDWORKS Electrical, SEE Electrical, Composer), allowing it to align with client software environments and eliminate data conversion friction. Differentiators include a multidisciplinary team of expert engineers, confidentiality frameworks that permit serving competing clients in the same industry, and UNI ISO 9001 certification maintained since 2002.

D&P Group operates five offices (four in Italy — Bergamo, Cerro Maggiore/Milan, Noceto/Parma, plus a satellite — and one in Philadelphia, USA, established 2012) with 130 employees, 265 active clients, and 180,000 annual engineering hours. The group includes two production subsidiaries acquired in 2014 — Omniwash (professional dishwashing solutions and gearmotors) and Nuova Mess (professional dishwashing and metalworking) — providing vertical integration into manufacturing alongside the core engineering services business. Customer base spans major multinationals including ABB, Electrolux, Leonardo, Schneider Electric, Kärcher, Ariston Thermo, FIAMM, Nidec, Indesit, and AgustaWestland.

Name

D&P

Legal name

D&P S.r.l.

Website

https://depcad.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

D&P is an Italian engineering consulting firm (founded 1997, Bergamo) that delivers industrial design, CAD/CAE engineering, and turnkey product development across six industrial sectors (energy/electromechanical, aerospace, appliances, consumer products, mechanical, Ho.Re.Ca/vending) to enterprise clients including ABB, Electrolux, Leonardo, and Schneider Electric.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bergamo

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting Services: D&P generates revenue primarily through providing specialized engineering consulting services across multiple industrial sectors. The company offers flexible service delivery formulas, varying the type of relationship and collaboration with clients. Services span from technical specification definition, preliminary project definition, macro system definition with layout creation, 3D design of parts, subassemblies and assemblies, structural analysis, mechanism simulations, tolerance chain analysis, prototype support, type testing assistance, industrialization documentation, bill of materials management, and client database integration. The company also acts as a Main Contractor managing complete turnkey projects from concept through industrialization, and acquires business units (such as Omniwash and Mess from the IME group) to expand its production capabilities.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

D&P is a B2B industrial engineering consulting firm that designs machinery, components, and equipment for manufacturing clients. It delivers full product-development-lifecycle services from concept through industrialization using multiple CAD/CAE platforms, offered via Consulting (specialized professionals) and Main Contractor (turnkey project) models across six industrial sectors.

Product overview

D&P is an engineering consulting company offering two primary service lines — Consulting and Main Contractor — supported by a suite of complementary engineering services (patent research, industrial design, prototyping, supplier scouting, structural analysis, and product industrialization). The company operates across six industrial sectors (Industry & Energy, Aeronautics & Space, Consumer Appliances, Consumer Products, Mechanical, and Ho.Re.Ca/Vending) and is organized as D&P Group with four locations in Italy and one in the United States. Services are delivered by a staff of technical experts and engineers providing support from initial concept through product industrialization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Omniwash: Professional dishwashing solutions and gearmotors
• Nuova Mess

Products and services

• Consulting Engineering consulting service where D&P defines project scope, modalities, and required competencies together with the client, proposing the most suitable technical professionals for the client's needs in their specific sector.
• Main Contractor Turnkey project management service in D&P's areas of competence, coordinating all actors in the production chain from initial concept through development, external suppliers, and product industrialization.
• Patent Research Patent search and analysis service leveraging a network of experts to assess market solutions and evaluate the patentability of new ideas.
• Industrial Design Aesthetic product design service spanning from initial paper sketches to photorealistic renders, covering both individual products and entire product lines.
• Prototyping (Plastic and Metal) Prototyping services utilizing both additive manufacturing and subtractive machining technologies, including sheet metal prototypes produced in-house for rapid turnaround without intermediaries.
• Supplier and Technology Scouting Support in analyzing the current supplier base or researching new suppliers or technologies, considering the client's technical, quality, and economic requirements.
• Structural Analysis (FEM, CFD, Multibody, Crash) Structural analysis services including FEM, CFD, multibody, and crash testing simulations, leveraging both internal expertise and specialist sector-focused experts.
• Product Industrialization Product industrialization support leveraging Design for Manufacturing & Assembly orientation, with competencies offered to client production departments and selected suppliers for complete production process optimization.
• Omniwash and Nuova Mess (professional dishwashing and gearmotors) Production entities within the D&P Group offering professional dishwashing solutions, gearmotors, and third-party contract metalworking services, acquired from the former IME group.

Named customers17 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OmniwashcoreOthers · 1 January 2014D&P acquired two business units from the former IME group: Omniwash and Mess. Omniwash became a production entity within the D&P Group offering professional dishwashing solutions, gearmotors, and contract metalworking services.
• Mess (Nuova Mess)coreOthers · 1 January 2014D&P acquired two business units from the former IME group: Omniwash and Mess. Nuova Mess became a production entity within the D&P Group offering professional dishwashing solutions, gearmotors, and contract metalworking services.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• AKKA Technologies: European engineering and technology consulting firm (now part of Adecco) serving aerospace, automotive, rail, and industrial clients with similar mechanical/electrical design and systems engineering capabilities; comparable full-lifecycle service model and customer verticals to D&P.
• Segula Technologies: French-headquartered global engineering consultancy offering design, prototyping, and industrialization services across automotive, aerospace, energy, and industrial sectors — comparable full product lifecycle engineering services model with multi-CAD capabilities.
• EDAG: German engineering services provider specializing in vehicle and industrial product development with CAD/CAE, FEM, prototyping, and industrialization offerings — closely comparable multi-CAD, multi-sector industrial design services model to D&P.
• Italdesign: Italian design and engineering services firm offering product design, prototyping, and low-volume production across automotive, transportation, and industrial sectors — directly comparable Italian heritage and full lifecycle concept-to-industrialization offering.
• Bertrandt: German engineering services firm providing product development, CAD, CAE, and industrialization support to automotive, aerospace, and industrial OEMs — comparable multi-sector design services model with similar reliance on senior engineers and CAD/CAE tooling, focused primarily on European clients.

Emerging players

• QuEST Global: Global engineering services firm providing product design, CAD/CAE, and digital engineering across aerospace, automotive, and industrial verticals — comparable multi-CAD design services model with a broader geographic delivery footprint than D&P.

Regional players

• FEV Group: German-headquartered engineering services firm specializing in powertrain, vehicle, and energy systems design, simulation, and prototyping — comparable engineering consulting and CAE capabilities to D&P, but with a stronger powertrain specialization.
• RINA Consulting: Italian engineering consultancy providing product certification, design verification, and industrial engineering services across energy, marine, transport, and industrial sectors — comparable Italian engineering services heritage with adjacent certification/regulatory expertise.

Broad incumbents

• Comau: Italian industrial automation and engineering services firm (part of Stellantis) offering product/process engineering, manufacturing systems design, and industrial digitization; comparable Italian industrial engineering heritage with stronger focus on automation and robotics than D&P.
• Capgemini Engineering (formerly Altran): Global engineering services and R&D arm of Capgemini, offering multi-sector mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software design across aerospace, automotive, industrial, and consumer verticals — directly comparable to D&P's full-lifecycle design consulting model but at vastly greater scale and geographic reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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