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Patent vs Copyright: Key Differences Explained

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...

Craft a Winning Value Proposition for Your New Product

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...

Unveiling SWOT Analysis for the Product Design Process

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...

Lean Production Bench Basics

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...

The 6 Kickass Jugaad Principles for Your Designs

A brief review of the 6 Jugaad principles, together with our own additions, views sometimes different, and examples and links to detailed posts on Lean product design and methodologies. Note that this is not the Jugaad Innovation book review, which...

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...

Best 40 TRIZ Principles to Boost Your Design Challenges

For product design engineers. The 40 TRIZ Principles are the solutions to solve the "TRIZ contradictions" in product design problem-solving or to highlight other approaches during your product design brainstorming sessions. This article focuses on the 40 triz principles to...

The 5 Japanese Lean Terms You Must Know in Manufacturing and Quality

For Manufacturing: the Japanese Lean terms are must-know vocabulary in manufacturing or quality as these have no direct equivalent and are used as-is in an industrial context. There are a variety of Japanese manufacturing lean terms, but we list here...

The 14 Lean Principles of The Toyota Way

To resume many of the lean principles of a company or attitude, one book is key. From the must-read book The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer (Dr Jeffrey Liker), Wikipedia, and other sources, with...

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 the community should not be the brand itself. Giving credit & recognition as a big thank...

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People animated slideshow

"7 Habits of Highly Effective People" made famous by Stephen R. Covey is powerfully summarized in seven(!) minutes, with original talk & images examples. An opportunity to come back on Covey's top-selling book and concepts behind ... and see...

Pitiful marketing technics used (or not) in product designs

Obviously marketing topic, but reviewed here from a product design perspective and long-term brand building. We acknowledge that some will be attracted by these short-term technics rather than looking at how to avoid these and create value in their...
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