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Software integration eases green product design

Software developers Sustainable Minds and Autodesk have created a close integration that marries Sustainable Mind's lifecycle assessment tool more closely with the Autodesk Inventor application. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Software, Product Design, Autodesk Inc., Integration, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Analyst: Cheap ultrathin laptops push design limits; cracked plastic

Analyst: Cheap ultrathin laptops push design limits; cracked plasticIt's cheap for a reason, folks.Apparently, this lesson is never learned.Actually, metal case should not mean higher price tagThe fact is that the layouts for metal and plastic right now, pound for pound, are only different by.... 20 bucks? So, they wouldn't...

Tags: Notebooks, Product marketing, laptop computer, metal case, plastic case, product design

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

Shanghai Belling Expects 18-Fold Return on Investment Over the Next Five Years

Founded in 1988, Shanghai Belling designs, develops, and manufactures integrated circuits. As a high technology company operating in a fast-changing industry with short product lifecycles, Shanghai Belling relies heavily on its knowledge assets to maintain competitive advantage. Off late, the company implemented Oracle Universal Content Management to record, store, manage,...

Tags: Asset, Oracle Corp., Product Design, Knowledge, Shanghai Belling, Product Marketing, Asset Management, Strategy, Marketing, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Greener Electronics Council report: Designers need to remember end-of-life concerns

The Green Electronics Council, keeper of the widely referenced Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, has published a report that explores the link between product design and how efficiently a particular piece of technology or gadget can be taken out of service responsibly at the end of its useful life. ...

Tags: Electronics, Heather Clancy, Management, Marketing, Product Design, Product Marketing, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-04-03

PrintCapture 3.2.23 (Windows)

PrintCapture easily captures the printer or plotter hardcopy output from your oscilloscope, logic analyzer, or spectrum analyzer. It processes raw HPGL Hewlett Packard Graphics Language, PCL Printer Control Language, or Epson graphics data from your test equipment and creates a graphics image file that can easily be inserted into a...

Tags: Product Design, Microsoft Windows, Image, Graphics, F&F SoftTools, Plotters, Printers, Product Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-03-04

PPL Accelerates Delivery of Product Design Data to Help Improve Productivity

PPL Corporation wanted to streamline the engineering design process and ensure all parties have access to the most up-to-date product information. The challenge was to deliver product information to third parties that use various types and versions of software. PPL Corporation implemented Oracle's AutoVue 2D Professional to enable users to...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Product Design, PPL Corp., Product Information, PPL, CAD, Software

Case studies 2008-12-01

Hidden ROI: Examining Engineering Processes to Improve the Bottom Line

Engineering Enterprises will all have some form of product lifecycle that must be managed. The first step in this cycle is the product design effort that culminates in a product release. This is where the product design is released to those departments whose efforts begin that lifecycle such as manufacturing,...

Tags: Product Design, ROI, FIRST TRACE, Product Marketing, Marketing

White papers 2008-10-16

IBM stresses the green-ification of product design and management

About a week ago, I mentioned an alliance between Autodesk and Sustainable Minds aimed at helping designers reate greener products from the drawing board stage. Now, IBM Global Business Services has introduced a set of product lifecycle services intended to help companies apply that sort of thinking not just...

Tags: Product Lifecycle, Product Design, Compliance, Product Lifecycle Management, IBM Corp., IBM Environmental Product Lifecycle Management Service, Hittner, Design, Product Marketing, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting Case Study: Medical Product Design - ECG Electronics

A leading manufacturer of cardiology equipment approached Orchid to provide the electronic hardware, software and mechanical product design for a new line of hand-held twelve lead ECG machines. The design goals: provide diagnostic quality ECG graphics display, in a light weight, portable, battery powered, user friendly package, provide compatibility with...

Tags: Software, Team, Product Design, Medical Product, Electronics, Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting, Product Marketing, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management

Case studies 2008-07-18

Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product design

Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product designhuh?"Engadget points out another irony of the move: When asked for his reaction to the original Segway design Steve Jobs said "I think it sucks." Funny how things change, isn't it?"so? He probably still thinks it sucks. Just because he...

Tags: Product marketing, Engineering, iCAR, product design, Segway, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product design

A post by Ãœber Administrator and Wise Segway Elder John Grohol on the SegwayChat message boards reveals that Doug Field is leaving Segway for Apple. Doug Field, the chief technology officer at Segway who heads their entire engineering team (and has since Day 1), is leaving Segway to become...

Tags: Apple Inc., Doug, jason D. O'Grady, Management, Marketing, Product Marketing, Segway, Team Management, Product Design

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Application of Object Oriented Thinking in Product Design: Design Process of Personal Digital Partner

Object oriented thinking is one of the most effective paradigms in computer science area which has important influences on software engineering and design. While industrial design and computer science have common domains like Human Computer Interaction HCI, industrial design could benefit from advantages of object oriented thinking too. In this...

Tags: Product Design, Computer Science, Industrial Design, Object-oriented, University Of Tehran, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-11-15

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

Dell may get serious about product design

Dell may get serious about product designAnother huge mis-step by DellSo he hired yet another person steeped in traditional thinking who's claim to fame is wrapping the same old products with a new ribbon and bow.If this is the best Mr. Dell can do then the company is in deep...

Tags: product design, Dell BIOS, Dell Computer Corp., dell, BIOS

Discussion threads 2007-02-16

Dell may get serious about product design

Michael Dell has been quickly making some necessary changes to his namesake PC maker. First, comes a shakeup. Second, comes a revamped consumer division. Dell announced that it has named Ron Garriques to serve as president of Dells global consumer business starting Feb. 19. Garriques...

Tags: Dell, General, Hardware Infrastructure, Motorola

Blog posts 2007-02-16

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

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

Photos: Gizmos made in Japan

Japan is still a leader in product design and innovation. Here are some new and notable gadgets.

Tags: leader, photograph, gizmo, innovation, Japan, product design

Image galleries 2005-12-08

Photos: Gizmos made in Japan

Japan is still a leader in product design and innovation. Here are some new and notable gadgets.

Tags: leader, photograph, gizmo, innovation, Japan, product design

Image galleries 2005-12-08

Electronics marketplace wins Seagate deal

E2open, an online marketplace for electronics companies, said Monday that it inked a three-year, multimillion-dollar contract with Seagate Technology, a maker of tape and disk drives. Seagate, a founding member of E2open, plans to release the company's browser-based tools for exchanging product designs and data to 10,000 employees and 2,000...

Tags: Product Design, Alorie Gilbert, Electronics, Tool, Seagate Technology LLC, E2open, Product Marketing, Marketing, Technology News

News items 2002-01-29