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PRODUCT DESIGN & INNOVATION TIPS
Thermoplastics vs Thermosets Comparison
Did you know thermosetting plastics like epoxy resins are more heat resistant after curing? They are also more chemically stable compared to thermoplastics. This strength and stability make thermosets essential for high-temperature uses in aerospace and automotive...
Product Unique Selling Proposition (USP): Definition and Strategies
A Unique Selling Proposition (USP) is crucial for setting your business apart. It highlights what's special about your product or service in a busy market. Essentially, your USP tells customers why they should pick you, helping to...
Understanding the Bathtub Curve & Product Life Failure
Have you heard about the famed failure rate shown by the bathtub curve? It highlights key phases in a product’s life cycle. The product life failure curve is crucial in reliability modeling. It shows how products fail...
Digital Twin: Tips, Tools and How-to for R&D and Innovation
In the next five years, $30 trillion in corporate revenues will rely on new products. This highlights digital twin technology's huge potential in Research and Development (R&D). With 75% of product development executives focusing on digitization, the...
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in Product Development: Best Tips
:Did you know Amazon first sold used college textbooks? Now, they sell millions more items. This only shows one aspect of the power of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It helps teams learn a lot, as soon...
How to Use the LED Technology for Innovative Designs
Did you know LED lights can shine for up to 50,000 hours? That's about 50 times longer than old-style bulbs. LEDs are changing the lighting game with their long life, energy-saving ways, and cool uses. They don't...
ECO DESIGN
Circular Economy & Product Design Practices
Did you know every year we throw away materials worth about $2.6 trillion? These are from goods we use quickly and then discard. This large number shows we need to find eco-friendly ways...
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): The Complete Guide
Did you know Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) uncovers the hidden environmental costs of our daily items? It shows more than 70% of a product's environmental impact happens before we even get it. This...
METHODOLOGIES
Have you ever asked yourself what leads to successful personal changes? The ADKAR model was created by Jeff Hiatt of Prosci in 1996. This method focuses on the importance of managing changes one step at a time at a personal level. It has become a key strategy for leaders...
The 8D problem solving method was developed by Ford Motor Company in the late 1980s. Today, it's one of the key tools for organizations worldwide seeking to improve quality and operations. This method has eight steps, or disciplines. They help identify, fix, and stop problems from happening again.
By the...
Did you know electric vehicles over their lifetime emit over 60% less than gas-powered cars? This fact highlights the need for accurate environmental impact evaluations. When it comes to sustainability analysis, there's a big debate between Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint (PCF). Each method has its...
Did you know industries with easy entry often make less money and control less market? This interesting point shows why knowing your competition matters. Michael Porter introduced Porter’s Five Forces model in 1979. It's a key tool for strategic planning.
By looking at internal rivalry, new competition, the power of...
PRODUCT DESIGN REVIEWS
A good example of an induction rechargeable product is where the energy is produced by the movement of a magnet through a coil, thus illustrating Faraday's law. No battery either rechargeable or not, therefore no waste or chemicals: a nice green ecological product
The design
The product has a very interesting...
When lightweight is not just a cost optimization but the main criteria of the product to function. Can you make a military tank fly? Or how to enter the virtuous cycle of making a light frame permits to put smaller motor, that permits to put smaller batteries, that permits...
A great engineered headlamp product, with the usage of many plastic tricks, a tight assembly, an all-in-one electronic board, and optics, all designed in a small battery-size footprint and withstanding harsh environment.
Although this is not their latest model, as this brand is making improvements years after years for decades,...
A typical medical device, portable, low cost, LED + indication usage working on batteries. All that shipped to Europe from the far east for less than 9€ total. Let's review its design and also propose some innovations around it.
Special note: this is a design review, not a Medical Device...
FACTORY TOURS
Shows how gases are extracted from air in the liquid phase, and then separated thanks to fractional distillation process in an industrial Air Separation Unit (ASU) and then compressed into gas cylinder.
Most typical gases produced by distillation: Nitrogen, Oxygen & Argon (frequently call 'gases from air' in opposition of...
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ENGINEERING FUN
Great marble path assembly
For those thinking it's possible only in a video game ... here it is, a great 2D marble game
Kaplas, magnets, additional balls, pencils, chopsticks,...
Marketing on the shelf
There was the off-the-shelf product, now there is the on-the-shelf marketing. An example combining several technics in a Customer-friendly and interactive way to get...
Multifunctional airport ceiling
How to combine structural and noise reduction functions in a concrete building construction, all that in a very nice design shapes. Great! ...