In the competitive world of electronics manufacturing, a profound truth often goes unrecognized until expensive lessons force ...

Manufacturing issues are one of the top reasons that we see warranty returns and loss of market share in the electronics industry. Issues like supply chain failures and printed circuit board assembly ...

A substantial majority of a part’s cost (70% or more) is effectively locked in once a design is finalized. How can a design engineer truly predict the most important cost drivers of a particular ...

Early-stage companies face difficult trade-off challenges when transitioning from design and build of one to two units to larger-scale production. At high volumes (i.e., 10,000+ units), the Design for ...

Product design engineers today face so many pressures associated with cost and turn-around time, that manufacturing considerations sometimes end up on the back burner. MD+DI recently interviewed three ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Sviat Dulianinov The AI ...

With wavering support for electric-vehicle (EV) subsidies in some jurisdictions as well as fierce competition, improving manufacturability of EVs is a critical responsibility of electronic design ...

Toronto-based NeuronicWorks Inc. is a design engineering and manufacturing company that casts a Design for Excellence (DfX) lens over product development. DfX is a set of best practices intended to ...

One of the most important issues facing manufacturers today is one that also doesn’t get as much discussion as it deserves: the concept of design for manufacturability. Using this approach, design ...

How model-based systems engineering (MBSE) has improved system design. Thermal design and MBE come together. When considering systems-level design, it’s important to understand the criticality of the ...

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