Rapid Product Design and Jumping From Planes
Product Design in Real-time. I showed up at the airfield for the day’s first jump at 0800. Paratroopers were prepping their oxygen masks. They were jumping 19,500 feet today,
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07, 2018
7 Ways to Avoid Crap Traps
If you’ve ever cleaned dog poop out of the sole of a boot, you already know something about crap traps – in that case a literal crap trap. We
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07, 2018
Effective Use of Physical Models In Product Development
The surprise… It was about 10 minutes through a design review. All eyes were fixed on the projector screen evaluating the newly presented concepts. My voice was the only
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07, 2018
The Power of a Concept Bill of Materials
It’s a common refrain from new clients: “we hired a design firm to do a previous project. They made a nice design but when we found out what it was
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07, 2018
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07, 2018
Would You Trust Tape for Assembly?
There’s a great meme floating around out there with the title “engineering flowchart”. It’s been around in several versions for many years so I assume it’s public domain. It sort
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07, 2018
Mentoring – For Best Results, Start Early
Several years ago, we started hiring our engineering interns out of high school in addition to college students. We didn’t have a bad experience with college interns, it’s just that
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07, 2018
Show Me Your Typical Sections
Show Me Your Typical Sections George Opie was my first boss. I got lucky. Opie was the head of our design department at an automotive supplier in the mid 90’s.
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07, 2018
The Day I Developed Thick Skin
If you work in a creative field and care about what you do, then you have probably felt personally attacked when given harsh criticism. Handling criticism is an important part
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07, 2018