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Quality Lifecycle Management: Striking a Balance between Product Reliability and Over-Design
When it comes to product design, companies must balance four competing goals: cost, time to market, feature set, and reliability. The key is to get the right mix and create the greatest customer satisfaction with the product. Too often, however, companies downplay the importance of reliability when weighed against the other three goals. They prioritize cost, time to market, or …
Adding Review Cycles to Accelerate Product Development
It seems counterintuitive, but putting more review cycles in the development process can actually help get products to market faster. A large consumer products manufacturer shows why this can work. Like many manufacturers trying to get more efficient in product development, the company had invested in multiple design centers around the world along with a large network of suppliers to …
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Tagged global product development, PLM, product design, quality control, supply chain
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A Different Beat: Transforming Used Products into New Ideas
Even if you’ve never wondered what happens to all the dented, splintered and broken drumsticks of the world, it’s nice to know that two creative Japanese companies have come up with a way to re-use the detritus of drummers. Tokyo’s Noah Sound Studio, a chain of music studios used for rehearsal and recording, provides the cast-off sticks, and Miidori, a …
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Tagged manufacturing, product design, product lifecycle, recycling
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Designing for Reliability: Why a Closed-Loop Process Works Best
Product reliability goes a long way toward ensuring customer loyalty. When products fail we feel annoyed and inconvenienced – or worse. If failure results in injury or even loss of life, the response is outrage and the impact to the manufacturer can be incredibly damaging. Consider the lawsuit Toyota found itself dealing with after acceleration problems caused crashes, injuries and …
4D Printing: Making Things That Make Themselves
Just as 3D printing is starting to be recognized by people outside of the engineering and design world, something new is on the scene – 4D printing. What is 4D printing and how does it work? I’ll explain, but first, a bit of background… Engineers and product designers have come to rely on 3D printing as a way to build …
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Tagged 4D printing, additive manufacturing, digital fabrication, manufacturing, product design
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Engineering for Humanity: Local Students and Seniors Team Up
The first time Shubhangini Prakash had to propel herself to the bathroom in a wheelchair at a local council on aging activities center, she almost gave up in frustration. Prakash was only sampling what life was like for people with limited mobility. But she says it was her “aha” moment. “I never realized how hard it is,” the 27-year-old MBA …
Built-In Vacuum Trumps Everything at New York Auto Show
This week’s New York International Auto Show had all the usual suspects: fantastic electric and hybrid models, new software, even Jerry Seinfeld’s 1964 Porsche 911 made it onto the show floor. But by far and away the most impressive, the most innovative, the most fantastic, was Honda’s 2014 Odyssey minivan, which, wait for it… comes with the world’s first ever …
Run like a Reptile: High-Performance Sports Gear Goes Back to Nature
Biomimetics—taking the best that nature has to offer and developing it into cutting-edge designs and products—is nothing new. But in recent years, sportswear designers have been getting more and more of their inspiration from nature. Take the gecko-inspired running shoe from Mizuno. Have you ever watched a gecko move? They have the uncanny ability to balance and grip surfaces in …
Is Open Source Product Development the Next Big Thing?
Open source – it’s a phrase for some that conjures images of the software equivalent to hippie communes in Vermont sharing in the fruits and labor of their co-op-grown organic kale. But if that’s really how you see open source, get over it. This is where the world is going, and the proof is in the proverbial pudding. GitHub, the …
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Tagged 3D printing, crowdsourcing, manufacturing, product design, product development
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Startups Take Gesture Controlled Tech to Next Level
It’s happening – gesture controlled technology is taking over. Are you ready? Or are you part of it? Continue reading
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Tagged consumer products, crowdsourcing, high tech, product design
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