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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 be very...

90 Mechanical Principles to Get Savvy Design Solutions

Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles movie from 1930 is a brilliant way to get a fresh (!) reminder to your school time to get ideas to solve in an efficient way modern motion transmission or transformation.   Ready to be used as...

Forms Follow Function … in Product Design Especially

"Forms Follow Function" is an old key design concept that started in architecture in the mid of the XX's. Modern product design, so as value analysis and ergonomics on one side, and modern CAD system ability to design almost...

Less Is More. Why You Want To Design Simple

"Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple." Sir Richard Branson So let's Design Simple and here is why and how! See the lithography above, from Pablo Picasso's sketch of one of his...
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Microplastics: origins, impacts and technical solutions

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The 5S Methodology: A Guide to Lean Manufacturing Workplaces

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Toyota Production System (TPS): A Manufacturing Guide

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Metal Drawing Process for Aluminum Cans

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