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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...
What is 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...
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...
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
Is the Five Whys technique enough to find the true causes of complex problems?
The Five Whys is a simple and popular way to solve easy issues. It was created by Toyota. You keep asking "why" five times to get to the bottom of a problem. But, experts like John...
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 digital-twin technology market is set to grow about 60% every year. By...
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 as possible, with little effort.
An MVP is a simple version of a...
How do we tell apart a market-ready product from a basic concept? It’s key to grasp the difference between a Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) and a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). This understanding can change how you view product development and manage its life cycle.
The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is...
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
All the processes, from the raw material to the green tire finally molded and cured. Not many products involve so many different processes and materials in volumes of millions per year.
The technologies involved:
elastomer, natural rubber & curing
complex mold technics
leak-tight and pressure
metal reinforcing
All that with very high volume production (5...
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ENGINEERING FUN
When company’s core values meet lean and efficient process
a simple review of Bla Bla Car motos, all visual
We very rarely show or disclose brands as advertising is not the purpose and added value for...
“once in a while…” Steve Jobs, 2007 … product design, marketing, it has them all
Among other sentences, this one became Product Introduction history, with even some parodies, but there is much more than this communication technic here. The...
Modern Technological Tattoos: When Wearable Technologies Enhance Body Art
Did you know nearly 40% of millennials sport a tattoo? The Pew Research Center revealed this. Tattoos have been meaningful for ages. Now, tech...