The pace of product design, development, and manufacturing is accelerating like never before, and consumers are demanding more from their products. Many products, like coffee makers and even doorbells ...

Amid the churn of the pandemic and change on multiple fronts, consumer goods manufacturers now face historic pressures to contain costs, navigate ongoing uncertainty in both supply and demand, and ...

Bodies of knowledge ebb and flow over time. When you step back and look at them, the maturation of a specific discipline or technology is counted in decades. Last month (MD Apr ’19), this column ...

Product development (“PD”) is a core competency for any product-oriented company, whether a Fortune 100 firm, a small engineering business, or a technology-based startup. Commercializing innovative ...

There’s no one right way to go about product design. Many methodologies exist, and many of them are good ones. But there are a few elements of product design that are too often neglected in the ...

Product design and cybersecurity may seem worlds apart, but they share a common goal: creating systems that people can trust, use intuitively and engage with seamlessly. Cybersecurity solutions that ...

Yield and cost have always been critical factors for both manufacturers and designers of semiconductor products. Meeting yield and product cost targets is a continuous challenge, due to new device ...

Chemical product and process design constitutes a multidisciplinary endeavour integrating chemical engineering principles, advanced computational methods and sustainability objectives to develop ...

There are thousands of designers who design injection molded parts but there is an elite group within this large community who can actually design parts for injection molders. Injection molded product ...