Category: Electronics Product Development

  • I Nearly Retired

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    Manufacturing Profits you can retire on I was talking with one of our past clients a little while ago. They told me they had a problem. They said, “Ray, I nearly retired“! So I asked them what that meant. And they explained.   We had developed a product for them a decade ago. The total…

  • Power Supply Specification

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    Power Supply Specification The idea for this post came from a discussion in IEEE Collabratec on how to design a Power Supply. The question of how to design a Power Supply seems innocuous enough until you really start to think back on past Power Supply designs. I was originally concerned that this was a student wanting…

  • Design Led Innovation

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    Design Led Innovation Traditional Product Development comes up with the product idea, does the development, gets it into production and then tries to find customers to sell it to.   Design Led Innovation tries to turn that process around so the actual needs of the customer or user become part of both the product definition and…

  • Creating Product Specifications

    Creating Product Specifications

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    Requirements Capture versus Product Specification In our post on Requirements Capture I looked at how we can go about understanding what a product has to do, who it has to do it for, and how to assess that. The output of this process is often referred to as a Product Specification or more specifically a…

  • Product Development – what they don’t tell you

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    Product Development As a process, Product Development can be handled a number of different ways. And if your product only requires input from a single technical discipline which you are very experienced in, then you can usually predict everything you need to do and just make sure it all happens the right way.   But if…