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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 digital-twin technology...

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 as possible,...

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 waste energy...

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 new perspectives....

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 core of...

“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 waiting to...

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 to promote...

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...

Design Against Steal and Diverted Uses in 10 Tips

While designers and marketers may want their new product to be as versatile as possible -increase applications and therefore market-, there are cases where this does not add value to the end-user, thus design against stealing should be considered. Design...

Best 9 Wikipedia Articles for Product Design

Designers and engineers can find a wealth of information on Wikipedia to help with their product design and innovation efforts. Complementary to innovation.world, these 8 Wikipedia articles provide comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date information on a wide range of skills...

Jack Of All Trades: Versatility in Product Design ?

Versatility in Product Design is risky: by trying to combine too many features, the risk is to obtain either a complicated product, fragile, costly or reaching none of the intended users or market. jack of all trades, master of none...

10 Tips to Design with Magnets

An extensive review of tips and examples to use when designing a new product with magnets and make use of all their properties without their drawbacks. Other alternatives to magnets will also be listed. Magnet Design Benefits example of a speed...
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Microplastics: origins, impacts and technical solutions

Did you know that plastic makes up 60% to 80% of marine waste? Shockingly,...

20 Best Tips to Design for Cleanability

In some industries, Design for Cleanability is just a must (food, medical), in all...

The 5S Methodology: A Guide to Lean Manufacturing Workplaces

Did you know the 5S methodology boosts productivity by 30% in manufacturing? This gain...

Toyota Production System (TPS): A Manufacturing Guide

Did you know that a Toyota car has over 30,000 parts? The Toyota Production...

Recycle vs Upcycle: similarities and differences

An amazing 75% of aluminum made in the USA is still being used today....

Metal Drawing Process for Aluminum Cans

Metal Drawing is a process that entails pulling a thin metal plate through a...

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