“Fast, Cheap, and Good: Choose any two.” This is an often-repeated joke in the engineering world that draws its source from the difficulties incumbent in balancing your time to market,… Read More
There is a lot of hype about 3D printing. 3D printing technologies have been transformative in many industries, including product development. With 3D printing we can get complex geometry in… Read More
Embarking on the journey from prototype to mass production is a pivotal stage for any product. Many entrepreneurs may wonder why New Product Introduction (NPI) services are crucial to this… Read More
With time-to-market pressures often compressing design engineering cycles, being able to employ creative prototyping techniques to get through vital design hurdles is critical. Using a combination of CAD-based component selection,… Read More
Often, when engineering a design, you may be faced with having to decide between using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts versus designing new, custom parts for the design. Do you “make”… Read More
After a second full year of the pandemic, supply chains for numerous goods, components, and materials continue to be in crisis. The importing companies of the Port of Los Angeles,… Read More
Transforming your mechanical CAD designs into real and tangible parts is one of the most rewarding feelings as an engineer. However, a lot of things can go wrong during this… Read More
Configurations are a powerful tool in SOLIDWORKS which allow users to maintain multiple versions of a part or an assembly in a single file. Like many features in SOLIDWORKS, Configurations… Read More
Your first draft of the design looks good on paper. You are one step closer to realizing your vision of the product. The technology concepts were proven to work on… Read More
In this two part blog series we will explore product development and some of the valuable lessons that could benefit your future design by studying goal definitions and managing hierarchical… Read More
Software: Design Complete
Hardware: Pre-production units for design verification
MFG. Readiness: CM schedule and budget, Unit build tracking
Software: Full feature implementationHardware: Prototype 2 units with production-representative materials and processes
Quality: Build Quality PlanSoftware: Core functionality implementationHardware: Prototype 1 units with rapid prototyped components
Quality: Critical manufacturing process identificationSoftware: Architecture design: block, sequence and state diagramsHardware: Major Component definition & Proof of Concept subsystems build
Quality: Design for Manufacturing tradeoffs evaluation