TC Express - From the Editors of Time Compression: Accelerating Product Development

 

July 2010

 

Feature

Go Extreme or Go Home
Gary S. Vasilash, Editorial Director

What do household sponges and USB flash drives have in common?

Arguably, it’s that they are both pretty common.  On my desk right now I have more than a dozen thumb drives of varying capacities.  At home I know that we have sponges in the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry room, and garage.
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TC Fast Forward

Design Like Nature

Amidst all of the confusion in terminology surrounding Rapid Technology and Additive Manufacturing (RTAM—itself a prime example of our semantic quagmire), “growing parts” remains the sole commonly shared metaphor, no matter how misleading.
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Accele(RANT) Blog

 

 

by Efish 23. June 2010

The Bike That Bends

If you’ve been watching the Tour de France, you may have witnessed a peloton turning into a jumble of broken and bent bikes. Not good. And while the bicycle design innovation from Kevin Scott, a product development student at the UK’s De Montfort University isn’t meant for venues like the Tour, his bike bends in half because it’s supposed to.
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TC Rewind

Collaboration Across the Design Chain

In the past, most product design activities were performed in centralized engineering departments, often with people seated side-by-side working on the same projects. Communication was direct and problems could be resolved quickly. In some cases, only one person was responsible for the entire design of a particular product.
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Products

The Screwdriver Gets a Makeover


The screwdriver has been around for some 500 years. Given that, one might imagine that it isn’t exactly an object pregnant with new development opportunities. But the folks at Melco Direct (“Better Products for a Better Life”) have come up with “My T Driver,” a torque-driven ratcheting device capable of driving through hardwood, sheet rock, composite materials and metals.
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