Zone: Product Development

User-Driven Development at NuStep

NuStep listened to the user—who may be a stroke victim or in cardiac rehab--when developing its the latest generation low-impact cross-trainer, the T5. What they discovered resulted in a better product.

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3D Printing Goes Open-Source
11/5/2009: A relatively recent development is quietly taking place, and it could have an interesting impact on the additive manufacturing (AM) industry.
Market Research Meets Philosophy
11/5/2009: “It’s hard to figure out how with first-mover advantage and economies of scale why it is that so many big companies get supplanted by small companies starting out of garages with no resources, no scale, and late to the party,” says Roger Martin. Blame it on Aristotle.
Inside Intel
11/4/2009: How the world’s most recognized chipmaker manages product development.
Material Handling: The Toyota Way
11/4/2009: End-user interaction defines how Toyota handles innovation at its material handling group.
Rapid Manufacturing @ Intel
11/4/2009: At Intel, product development and manufacturing share equal roles in advancing new products to market and, like the technology they’re producing, the factories must move at full-speed in order to stay ahead of the competition. “You need fast factories” in order to respond to the pace of change in the electronics world, admits Bob Baker, senior vice president of Technology and Manufacturing at Intel.

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Product Development

The Time Compression Product Development Zone includes a wide variety of topics on best practice in rapid product development. It covers such issues as design for manufacture and assembly, ergonomics and environmental. It also covers more traditional issues as they are recast in a rapid development mode such as quality, research and development, lean and more.