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- ESTECO: Optimizing Product Design
- ESTECO was created in 1999 to commercialize design optimization knowledge acquired during a project sponsored by the European Union. Increasing market competition is squeezing the product development cycle time for industrial designers and manufacturers. Designers in aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, consumer products and other industries must drastically shorten turnaround times while...
- Tags: Software, Linux NetworX, Product Design, Product Development, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Marketing
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- Product Design Collaboration: Accelerate Product Innovation With Adobe Intelligent Documents
- In this webcast, you will learn how Adobe Systems can help you speed time to market with more competitive products by streamlining the design collaboration process, featuring analyst insight from AMR Research.
- Tags: Innovation, Adobe Systems Inc., Product Design, Product Marketing, Leadership, Digital Media, Marketing, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- Enhancing Your Product Design With Secure Wi-Fi Connectivity
- The massive proliferation of Wi-Fi networks in homes, offices and public spaces is motivating manufacturers to add Wi-Fi capabilities to every conceivable sort of networked device, from mobile phones to LCD televisions. But manufacturers need to address serious end-user concerns about Wi-Fi security, usability and performance. This webcast explains how...
- Tags: Product Design, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- Cisco Energy-Efficient Data Center Solutions
- Data center power and cooling requirements are high priority topics for Cisco customers, prompted by recent advances in computing and storage product designs. The network is uniquely positioned in the data center to facilitate increased utilization of storage resources. In some cases, the network also provides virtualization services that in...
- Tags: Data Center, Product Design, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Total Industrial Design Strategy Cuts Overall Costs, Boosts Quality
- Alloy Total Product Design offered extra value by extending role of Industrial Design ID to anticipate downstream development requirements and eliminate reverse engineering total product design. The challenge was to ensure quality products by maintaining control of surfaces through mechanical engineering and tooling development. The company defined product concepts as...
- Tags: Product Design, Siemens AG, Industrial Design, Modeling, Research & Development, Engineering, Product Marketing, Business Operations, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- NX Helps Industrial Design Firm Significantly Improve the Product Design and Development Process
- Formation Design Group Inc. is an Industrial Design ID firm that handles everything from small handheld devices to large vehicles. The company wanted to create a new look for a pallet truck and improve comfort and operator ergonomics. The company deployed open customer's assembly file of vehicle with NX software...
- Tags: Product Design, Siemens AG, Industrial Design, Engineering
- Case studies 2006-10-01
- Enabling Decision Support and Costing of Product Designs by Using Visual Metaphors
- The Systems Engineering Estimation and Decision Support SEEDS team is part of the Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre AMRC at the University of the West of England Bristol UWE. SEEDS expertise is in working with aerospace organisations to apply techniques in managing, categorising and visualising information to support costing of products...
- Tags: Product Design, Decision Support, Aerospace, Aerospace & Defense, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-09-22
- 'No Fault Found' Returns Cost the Mobile Industry $4.5 Billion Per Year
- One in seven mobile phones are returned within the first year of purchase by subscribers as faulty. Alone this statistic will doubtless raise eye brows and drive speculation over product design flaws and standards in build performance. However further analysis into the nature of these returns reveals the even more...
- Tags: Product Design, Mobile, Statistic, Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Images: Cheers and jeers for user design
- From the iPod (yea!) to the motion sensor toilet (boo!), here are some recent examples of good and bad consumer product design.
- Tags: Apple iPod, toilet, product design
- Image galleries 2007-02-12
- IBM Global Engineering Solutions: Consumer Electronics and Digital Media Solutions
- Today's consumer electronics and digital media companies need to differentiate their products with more and better features but at the same time reduce their product development costs. Toward this end, a growing number of businesses are partnering with the IBM Engineering & Technology Services (E&TS) group, which provides unprecedented access...
- Tags: partnership, intellectual property, collaboration, consumer electronics, digital media, electronics, IBM Corp., product design, product development
- White papers 2006-03-01
- AMR Research Alert: Rethinking Core Competencies
- In this thought-provoking article from AMR Research, author Bruce Richardson discusses recent trends in the Research and Development (R&D) arena and explains why "everyday low prices," which are great for consumers, make it hard for manufacturers and vendors to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Richardson goes on to outline the...
- Tags: AMR Research, Bruce Richardson, competitive advantage, core competency, IBM Corp., outsourcing, product design, R&D
- White papers 2005-03-17
Additional Resources
- LEGO Captures Original Design Intent: Defines Best-in-Practice Mold Design
- LEGO Group wanted to improve product mold design process and rapidly develop free form surfaces. The challenge was to capture and maintain design intent. The company utilized free form surface mold design methodology and created surfaces from curves on the computer or from scanned data. It also implemented full-feature surfacing...
- Tags: Siemens AG, LEGO Co., Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-02-01
- Microsoft Windows XP: The Face of the New Windows - Inviting to the Touch
- It was obvious that the new functionality of Windows XP would demand an equally exciting look and feel throughout the product experience. With its experience in branding, product and digital design, frog design was able to offer Microsoft internal branding and product design team's valuable support in creative exploration and...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Branding, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
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- Toward a Service-Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology for Software Product Lines
- This paper explains the method to design service-oriented applications based on software product lines principles. Explore a Service-Oriented Software product lines SoSPL methodology that applies SPL variability analysis techniques to Web services to design customized service-based applications. Find out how Software Product Lines SPL promote agile and flexible application development...
- Tags: Software, Software Product
- White papers 2007-07-31
- Requirements Management: Identify, Specify, Track and Control Requirements Using a Standard Process
- Requirements are an integral part of the development process connected through traceability with marketing specifications, analysis diagrams, design models, code files, test procedures and virtually every other project deliverable. The structure of product requirements usually lends itself well to organizing the design, implementation and test activities that follow. The mapping...
- Tags: Product Requirement, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Marketing Research, Office Suites, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2003-08-21
- Collective Product Knowledge Is Shared in an Open, Collaborative Environment That Benefits the Entire Enterprise
- Air Products wanted the cost savings of a re-usable plant design module, but that required a new IT infrastructure capable of supporting teamwork and maximizing the re-use of product knowledge across the enterprise. Air Products' next challenge was to implement an infrastructure that would facilitate modular plant design. A key...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Knowledge, Environment, Benefit, Air Products, Product Marketing, Team Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- HP StorageWorks User Centered Design: Driving Productivity and Efficiency
- The HP StorageWorks UCD Program gives customers the opportunity to interact with HP product designers to help influence future product design and simplify storage management tasks.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Storage, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- Plasticos Castella Upgraded to a Knowledge-Based Mold Design System to Speed Delivery of Thin-Wall Plastic Containers
- Plasticos Castella is one of the leading plastic injection molders in Spain. Plasticos Castella wanted to meet customers' requirements for faster product delivery and shrink mold design cycle. The challenge was to improve accuracy of molds to prevent redesign and repair. The company upgraded to knowledge-based mold design, took advantage...
- Tags: Mold, Siemens AG, Knowledge, Plasticos Castella, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Australia's Well-Known Producer of Household Appliances Exceeds Consumer Expectations With a Start-to-Finish, NX-Based Digital Product Development Process
- Breville, established in 1932 and owned since 2001 by Housewares International Pty Ltd., has been recognized as a design innovator. Breville wanted to speed new product development and lower prototype costs. The challenge was to maintain company's reputation as a design leader. The company implemented a complete, NX-based digital product...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Product Development, Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Close the sale with persuasive design
- How to use Persuasive DesignTo begin using Persuasive design you should ask these questions for every page in the persuasive pathway of your website.1. What specifically helps a user make a choice?2. What information tells your prospect why they should believe your product or service is the best solution for...
- Tags: bobby.hewitt@..., Persuasive Design
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
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