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Extreme Sports Enthusiast Overcomes Limits, Inspires Others
Reggie Showers has a true passion for life. He’s a two-time world motorcycle drag racing champion, a pilot, a rock climber, and a certified snowboard instructor. He’s also a double amputee. At age 14, Showers was playing on top of some boxcars in a railroad yard when he got too close to the wires used to power the trains. Thirteen …
Breaking New Ground: Rugged MIT Wheelchair Brings Mobility to Developing World
After suffering a spinal cord injury when he fell from a tree, Ashok, from Jaipur, India, had to close down his tailoring shop because he couldn’t push his wheelchair across the rough terrain between his home and his business. Ashok’s story is similar to many across rural India and Africa, Central America, and parts of Southeast Asia. In the developing …
Using Gravity to Bring Affordable Electricity to Remote Africa
Over 1.3 billion people—20 percent of the world’s population—are without access to electricity worldwide, according to the World Bank. It’s no surprise that the majority of those people live in developing countries, including 550 million in Africa, and over 400 million in India. In developing countries, wood, charcoal, coal and dung are used for cooking and heating, and kerosene is often …
Service Lifecycle Management Yields New Solutions to Old Problems
Manufacturing has undergone many transformations over the years. From the rise of the cotton gin to the explosion of the mass assembly line, these transformations have marshaled once cottage industries like CAD and product lifecycle management into the backbone of discrete manufacturing today. Fast forward to the present day, and we’re at the dawn of a new era in manufacturing. …
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Minimizing Risk with PLM Transformation: The Role of Executive Sponsors
Large-scale business change initiatives are inherently risky. Business literature is littered with failure stories: Companies overreach, technology doesn’t work as advertised, workers resist the new approach to work. To avoid such disasters, most business leaders today appreciate the importance of including strong executive sponsors for technology-based transformation programs like PLM. In practice, however, companies often fail to establish the level …
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Tagged executive sponsorship, governance, manufacturing, PLM adoption, product design, product development
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Why Our High-Tech Lifestyles Demand Smarter Products
I need an assistant. Of the virtual kind. Someone who can keep track of the daily chaos within my household. Someone who can tell me when the pantry is empty, and what I need to purchase at the store. Someone who can remind me of music lessons, karate lessons, theater practice, and my husband’s business trips. I need a gentle …
Vegas Builds the World’s Largest Observation Wheel
Las Vegas will soon be home to the world’s largest “observation” wheel. The Las Vegas High Roller—made of three and a half million pounds of steel—will be nine feet taller than the Singapore Flyer and 107 feet taller than the London Eye. The High Roller is one of the main attractions in The LINQ, a new $550 million outdoor retail, …
The Child Innovator: Looking to Kids for Tomorrow’s High-Tech Gadgetry
We all know there’s a huge industry built around the child consumer. Design and technical innovation abound—from toys and bedroom furniture to school supplies and sports gear. But traditionally, we’ve rarely given children the opportunity to innovate for themselves, and we haven’t often asked for their opinion on how real-world products or processes could or should work. But Western society—and …
Charts, Gadgets and Can Openers: Thanksgiving Cooking for Engineers
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. And if you’re an engineer, chances are you’re a fanatic somewhere in the kitchen, whether it’s experimenting with the latest gadgets or cooking methods, precision ingredients, or micro-beer brewing. Cooking for Engineers is a gastronomical resource for analytical minds who like chillin in the kitchen. Started by Michael Chu, a computer engineer who learned …
Smart Product Design for Next-Generation Gadgets
Leading up to the announcement of the Innovation by Design Award winners, the October issue of Fast Company focused on the impact and importance of design, beginning with an article by Cliff Kuang called “Good Design is Good Business.” The title of Kuang’s article comes from a speech given by IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. to Wharton students in 1973. …
