Category: Electronics Product Development

  • Reducing Electronics and Embedded Software Product Development Costs

    First some basic statistics that made me think about this issue a bit more: Software typically consumes 80% of the development budget. Digital Avionics Handbook and Embedded.com 80% of software projects are unsuccessful IBM   So working from the Pareto Principle it is clear that product development success and cost…

  • Electronics Manufacture – How to Select a Microcontroller

    When it comes to selecting a microcontroller for Electronics Manufacture, the field to choose from is quite large. And while there is no one right answer to this, there are some basic steps to take to ensure you are using the right core component in your latest Electronics Development Project.…

  • Project Priorities Perspective – Performance and Cost versus Time

    This continues our review of the Project Priorities Perspective. See the Project Priorities Perspective post for the concept behind this and Time and Cost versus Performance and Time and Performance versus Cost for a look at those trade offs and how they affect Low Cost Electronics Manufacture in Australia.  …

  • Project Priorities Perspective – Time and Cost versus Performance

    This continues our review of the Project Priorities Perspective. See the Project Priorities Perspective post for the concept behind this and Time and Performance versus Cost for a look at those trade-offs.   Here is a visual view of this set of trade-offs:   Reducing performance can decrease cost and…

  • Project Priorities Perspective – Time and Performance versus Cost

    This continues our review of the Project Priorities Perspective. See the Project Priorities Perspective post for the concept behind this.   This is the easiest of the the trade-offs to appreciate. If you want it quickly and it has to be good, then you are going to pay more for…

  • Project Priorities Perspective

    This is a tool we use to fine tune projects toward the most commercially successful outcome. It works by highlighting the three competing priorities in every project. These are: Performance – how good does the product have to be Cost – how much will it cost to make Time –…

  • Sprechen De Cantonese? – Electronics Design in Australia

    There are many companies successfully doing good business in China. Most of them are large, have deep pockets and have core staff in China making sure it stays good. Names like Sony, Siemens, IBM (Lenovo)…   Smaller companies can run into trouble. This is a case study of a project…

  • Electronics Products Made in Australia – Strategies to be More Profitable

    In order to make electronic products in Australia at a good profit, it is necessary to understand the factors that contribute to the total cost of a manufactured product. Here are the top 5: The cost of the engineering and tooling effort – sometimes referred to a NREs (Non Recoverable…