Ryan Gray is Co-Founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a product engineering and design firm featured in The Lean Startup. Should your engineering department be doing product development? Two decades ago ...

Product developers enjoyed a fairly predictable environment for most of last century. After the arrival of the assembly line early in the century, changes in design and manufacturing were incremental.

If you're trying to get ahead of competitors with the same product design cycle you've always used, I have bad news for you: You're probably falling behind. No matter how far along you are in ...

Businesses around the globe are under pressure to shorten their product development cycles while reducing cost and maintaining quality. This is due to relentless competition, high customer ...

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 Kevin Bailey Artificial ...

Engineering change management is fundamental to contemporary product development, addressing the inherent need to adapt designs in response to evolving customer demands, supply chain disruptions and ...

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 ...

In part one of this two-part article, design engineer Michael Paloian outlined the first four milestones of a product-design project, ending with the “cornerstone” of the product-design cycle — ...

Technical personnel such as engineers and designers need to have input on a device's features and intended functions. In the fiercely competitive medical device and instrumentation industry, speeding ...