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Starting Your Product Specification
Creating a detailed Product Specification is one of the most important steps one can take at the beginning of new product development. Previously, I wrote a post with some tips on how to craft entries...
View ArticleWhy is ISO-certification good for a design firm?
We have long understood that to be one of the most successful companies for developing challenging, technology-based products (especially in the medical industry), we had to create and implement well...
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Born with questions
Designing a product requires thinking about all of the various problems that could arise and heading them off. How can this be cleaned? Is it going to be dropped? What if someone sticks a finger in...
View ArticleThe symbiosis of modeling and prototyping
Prototypes are essential to testing system performance. However, due to the current technological constraints of creating microscale prototypes, compromises in the characteristics of the prototype...
View ArticleWhat are your mechanical and electrical rapid prototyping capabilities?
Key Tech accomplishes prototyping by leveraging a network of approximately three dozen prototyping vendors, selecting the method and vendor based on the best match to your application. Multiple...
View ArticleDo I really need to know this?
I was once talking with a group of engineering students about what it’s like as an engineer. One student asked if I’d ever needed this or that “core” class from college (I believe it was...
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Collecting very fine volumetric accuracy data
As part of the V&V (validation and verification) test procedure we developed a while ago, we designed a gravimetric means to characterize the volumetric and flow-rate accuracy of a couple of...
View ArticleResources for tinkerers
My kids like to take things apart. Maybe it’s an innate human characteristic or just curiosity about the world around them. My five-year-old methodically removed all of the screws from his wooden...
View ArticleKey Tech presents at the Johns Hopkins Medical Device Startup Tool Box Day
So you have a great idea for a novel medical device, and you’re looking to build a start-up company around it…Congrats! But before you jump in, an honest look in the mirror should reveal that your...
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3D Printing Technology
There are three major rapid prototyping techniques for making plastic parts fast; layer building, low-pressure molding/casting, and machining. Each has its advantages and drawbacks, depending on how...
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