Software companies are often used to using an agile design approach (often SCRUM) to design and develop software products, and they wonder if they can carry over the approach to when they need to develop a new hardware product to support … [Read more...]
How & When To Transition from a Product Development Team To a Manufacturer
A good manufacturer is good at... running mass productions without unpleasant surprises. That includes the careful validation of the manufacturing & testing processes for new products, good process control, good management of suppliers, … [Read more...]
Fail Safe Design Principles & Examples | Product Risk Reduction
Some products may, if they fail in a certain way, endanger people's safety or lead to enormous economic losses. That puts much more responsibility on the designers' shoulders and is why using fail safe design principles is so critical. … [Read more...]
Planning for Quality & Compliance at the Product Design Stage: 3 Topics You MUST Focus On
A reader asked what he should pay attention to when he starts to work on a new product in order to avoid a very large “dumb tax” in the future. This is a good question, as there are many activities to undertake that will help your … [Read more...]
DFX: 12 Product Design Optimizations You Could Be Making [Podcast]
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In this episode... Renaud is joined once again by Sofeast's head of New Product Development, Andrew Amirnovin, to go over 12 'Design for Excellence/DfX' goals designers can optimize for when designing and developing a new product. These … [Read more...]
Navigating The Product Design and NPI Maze For New Products [Podcast]
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In this episode… You've got an idea for a unique new product! Amazing! Now you need to develop that product concept, design it, test and validate it, and much more before finally going into mass production and bringing it to market. You … [Read more...]
Developing a New Product? Think of Information Security Management.
More and more prototyping companies who routinely work for large companies have gotten certified to ISO/IEC 27001. If you have been scratching your head about what this standard about information security management entails and what it … [Read more...]
Why New Product Development of Electronics Takes So Long
Over the years, we have been talking to people who are planning to or are in the process of, developing a new product. And there is a very serious mismatch between expectations and reality during the new product development process. So … [Read more...]
So, You Are an Inventor Looking for a Manufacturer? Think Again.
We are regularly contacted by self-described inventors who believe very hard in their product idea but do NOT want to manage that product’s development, production, and sale. They are often smart people, brilliant even. But they tend … [Read more...]
How Bad Product Design Leads to Many Quality Issues
I had an interesting discussion a few days ago. It made me realize most people see products of obviously poor quality and think the issues come from manufacturing, while, in fact, they most often come from bad product design! Let's see why … [Read more...]