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PRODUCT DESIGN & INNOVATION TIPS
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...
Top 5 Advantages Of Clean Sheet Design For Product Design
Did you know less than 25% of companies feel they're on track with integrating climate change policies? This highlights the need for innovative approaches like Clean Sheet Design in Product Design. By starting from zero, it offers...
Optimizing Design for SMED Manufacturing Efficiency
Can a simple design change spark a revolution in productivity? The key might be in the Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) approach. This method goes beyond just cutting down on changeover times. It reshapes the very...
“Best” 10 Design Mistakes To Avoid
Avoid these product design mistakes for a lot of troubles: some product features or technologies are tempting at first, but may, with or without additional factors or errors, be your next ticking time bomb or your disaster...
Great 7 Phases of Product Life-Cycle Design
No Designer or Product Manager will forget the end customer using the product for its primary function. But providing added value to all actors in the product chain + in the product life-cycle is a great way...
The Ultimate Design Review Checklist
Do not close any Design Phase without this. This extensive design review checklist is to be used at the end of the design phase of any product, to avoid potentially basic or stupid mistakes that may later...
ECO DESIGN
Microplastics: origins, impacts and technical solutions
Did you know that plastic makes up 60% to 80% of marine waste? Shockingly, 90% of floating waste in seas is plastic. This harms our planet’s ecosystems greatly. Tiny particles, known as microplastics,...
What are bio-sourced plastics made from?
Did you know that bioplastics can have up to a 25% smaller carbon footprint compared to traditional fossil-based plastics? Right now, 100% bio-based bioplastics are made at a rate of about 2 million...
METHODOLOGIES
In 2022, 3.5 million patents were given out all over the world. This shows how crucial intellectual property is for global innovation. Understanding the patent vs copyright differences is essential for protecting inventions and artistic works. Patents mainly focus on tech advancements. Copyrights protect artistic works.
As creators and inventors...
In today's crowded market, making your new product stand out is key. A value proposition helps do that. It's a clear statement showing why customers should pick your product, highlighting your unique solutions. Unlike just describing your product, a strong value proposition shows what your business uniquely offers. This...
Ever wondered why top brands always beat their rivals in product design? They use a strategic tool known as SWOT analysis. This guide will show you how SWOT analysis in product design leads to innovation and efficiency.
SWOT analysis helps understand both the strong points, like an intuitive user interface,...
The operators may move fast on the production line, make straightforward repetitive tasks and put their best effort into it ... this is by far not the fastest production technics. And a camera or a supervisor shouting on his shoulder will not help further
The Touch-Move Rule
In production also, both...
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
These factory tours will show all the technics and processes of probably the oldest -yet still used- tool on the earth, ie knife manufacturing. This involves steel selection, coating or treatment, machining, plastics or leatherwork, and ergonomics.
We have classified these tours from artisan/low volume to industrial high volume production,...
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