Chiggy (Emmanuel) Ogwo is a British-Nigerian MEng Mechanical Engineer (2:1, Nottingham Trent) and Member of the IET. He has worked across six high-speed filling lines at Kraft Heinz, supported industrial IoT deployments at Pressac, and founded OGW™ — an independent design office that has taken products from CAD to production runs with overseas manufacturers.
Process improvement in high-volume food manufacturing at Kraft Heinz, industrial IoT at Pressac, NPD trials at Compleat Food Group, and live warehouse operations at ArrowXL.
Design authorship shaped by Marc Newson, Jony Ive and Ross Lovegrove — simplicity, futurism, biomorphism and seamless function.
Founded and run a studio that takes products from sketch to sale: around 200 units produced across jewellery, T-shirts and bags, for OGW and for clients.
A reduced human form, sculpted and cast in mirror-polished stainless steel, released as a numbered run of 100. Taken from CAD to production with a manufacturer in China, with a separate packaging supplier and UK import. Landed cost modelled at £43.71 against £145 retail (~70% gross margin); first 15 units sold on pre-order.
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Process Improvement Lead across six high-speed can-filling lines. Analysed line waste data and traced the biggest avoidable loss on the P16 Beans & Pasta line to checkweigher over-rejection of good cans — a critical control point. Countermeasures were put in place. I also ran Initial Problem Solving (IPS) on the line with shift teams — for example, tracing an infeed loss on the sauce filler to a can jam at the C009 combiner, then checking conveyor sensors and buildback speed.
Infeed conveyor loss on the sauce filler.
Normal operation
400g
A few times a shift
Can jam on the C009 combiner.
Coverfeed overfeeding can ends.
Normal operation
All varieties
Constant → wrecks
Worn coverfeed scroll lets the arrester ride above the last can end, releasing an end every gap.
Initial Problem Solving on line P16, redrawn from the shop-floor IPS boards — with the can infeed and conveyor sensors, Kitt Green 2025
One jacket, three ways to wear it: bomber, sleeveless, or folded into a backpack. Designed as a system rather than a single garment.
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A double-layer garment in 250gsm cotton jersey: a long-sleeve base with a detachable vest, joined by concealed shoulder zips. The barcode graphic is perforated through the vest so the base layer reads through it. I authored the 14-page Rev A tech pack — bill of materials, construction callouts, artwork dimensions and graded measurement specs — with the concept chosen alongside the IZÉ team using a Pugh decision matrix. Sample in development.
ESS001 Essentialist Archetype Tee — tech pack Rev A, OGW × IZÉ, 2026
As Technical Product Specialist for industrial wireless sensors, I built the Pressac support knowledge base — installation, commissioning and specification guides across the sensor range — and produced the sensor graphics used throughout it. I also connected the enquiry form to HubSpot with routing rules that prioritised bulk customers, cutting average ticket resolution time by about 40%.
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Sensor graphics from support.pressac.com — energy, environment and occupancy ranges
A one-piece platform thong mule for Zellerfeld’s 3D-printed TPU process — open heel, toe post, a sculpted footbed carrying the OGW butterfly, OGW debossed into a grid tread. Before anything went to print, I ran a Gate 0 audit on Zino’s STL: repaired the mesh to watertight, confirmed left and right mirror within 0.07 mm, mapped wall thickness, and sectioned the platform. That produced a change list — toe post to 9–10 mm with fillets, a 3 mm floor on the vamp band, a lattice heel to bring weight under 400 g — and a five-gate test plan from Zellerfeld intake to a seven-day wear trial.
Wall-thickness map, centreline section and footbed render — generated from the STL, OGW × Zino × Zellerfeld, 2026
Member, Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET) · IBM Design Thinking Practitioner · Microsoft Business Analysis Fundamentals · NTU Black Leadership Award · Elite Closing Academy sales training
Looking for a process, continuous improvement or operations role where I can build depth and stay for the long term. I bring an engineer’s rigour, a designer’s eye and a founder’s ownership.
Design, product or studio enquiries → studio@ogwoffice.com