Rapid prototypes serve not only as intermediate deliverables for styling reviews or structural validation, but also as the critical link connecting design concepts to mass production decisions.

Working on a new product is always an exciting and risky process, even when you have all the data suggesting that the product is a win. In addition to all the administrative work, you need to know the ...

Robust testing and evaluation processes are important for learning from both the successes and the failures in prototype development. Dr. John Granier, chief engineer of munitions and energetics at ...

Even the most skilled developers and product designers can’t always know exactly what their users want. Software prototyping provides a functional proof-of-concept mock-up that identifies missing ...

How to work out a prototyping strategy that eases the transition to mass production. The advantages of using data from devices in the field to improve designs over time. How to make products more ...

Appropriate fidelity, type of prototype, and mock-ups can answer the right questions about a new design quickly and efficiently, at the appropriate phase in a product’s development cycle. Using this ...

The world of the hardware design engineer has changed dramatically in recent years. Designers no longer sit and code RTL in isolation to meet a paper specification, and then wait for a hardware ...

If your department is in a high-growth area or in need of replacing numerous fire stations, one approach to developing multiple fire stations is using a prototype fire station design process. Often, ...

Hardware-based platforms, such as FPGAs with embedded-processor and DSP cores, offer an IP view of system-level development that can complement virtual software prototyping. Much has been written ...

When the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity is asked to find a solution to a problem that affects the nation's warfighters, it calls upon the talent and resources of its team at the ...

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