Richard (Dick) Haney

Richard (Dick) Haney, of the CMT Group, a technology consulting company in Palo Alto, California, USA, specializes in product engineering, manufacturing and technical management

Articles:

Product Development Contracts - A Bunch of Insight
"Outsourcing PD should always take place within a legal contract..." (My apologies article is in English only)
Evaluating In-house vs. Outsourcing for Product Design and Development
Thus, an up-front, comprehensive assessment of your potential business, market, and product scenario can greatly help... (My apologies article is in English only)
Three Foundations of Innovation
...success can only be achieved by taking a risk, setting specific goals for achieving value from the action, and driving for market acceptance of the results (My apologies article is in English only)
Product Design Review, Say - What? Why? Who? When? How?
"...to explicitly define the product design review so as to distinguish it from other product, project, market and technology reviews.." (My apologies article is in English only)
Evaluating a Patent for use within your new product
"...outlines a process to evaluate whether a patented component or process is functional, useful, and cost effective when embedded within a new product..." (My apologies article is in English only)
Cost Reduction During Product Development?
"Cost awareness and minialization must be prevalent during development." (My apologies article is in English only)
Quality vs. Reliability from a Product Development point-of-view
"It is within this PD domain of establishing and validating product claims where two disciplines, Quality and Reliability, are widely employed and misunderstood by many..." (My apologies article is in English only)
The Realms of Testing...throughout a product's life-cycle
"...is the process of defining a product's functionality..." (My apologies article is in English only)
Product Development from 30,000 feet, Or - The things you may never think about that will affect the cost and marketability of your new product...
"A product is composed of not only the basic components, subsystems and accessories but also of what I call fuzzy inter-related product mentors" (My apologies article is in English only)
Environmental Guardianship. The Effect of Environmental Laws, Policies and Standards on the Product Development Lifecycle
"The marketplace is global and shrinking, as is the world of compliance." (My apologies article is in English only)
What Every Product Development Manager and Executive Need to Know about Product Testing for Unexpected Wear & Tear
"Throughout a product's lifecycle there most likely will be unanticipated handling, abnormal use, and environmental situations that the product may experience...... " (My apologies article is in English only)
What Every Product Development Manager and Executive Needs to Know about Product Safety
"It's not easy, quick, or free to develop a product and without any doubt it is not a certainty that the product will be a success...since the Market is the ultimate arbiter of a product's success." (My apologies article is in English only)
Product Development From the Top. So... I have a product idea... now what do I do?
"It's not easy, quick, or free to develop a product and without any doubt it is not a certainty that the product will be a success...since the Market is the ultimate arbiter of a product's success." (My apologies article is in English only)
The Business and Hidden Values of Prototyping During Product Development
"Creation of value to all stakeholders is the bottom line for a prototype" (My apologies article is in English only)
What Every Product Development Manager and Executive Needs to Know About EMC
"The biggest mistake you can make is to wait until the design is completed before compliance issues are considered." (My apologies article is in English only)
Contract Manufacturing - A Simple Overview
"Why do we need all that for Contract Manufacturing?" (My apologies article is in English only)
Where Does Innovation Fit Within Product Development?
"...reasoned limitations of innovation should be mapped to the entire product development process..." (My apologies article is in English only)
Product Development Through The 'Eyes of Documentation'
"You just can't get away from documentation, but you don't need to be buried by it either." (My apologies article is in English only)
Product Testing ? Why ?....And How Much ?
"....a product test plan and 'product requirement' list are very necessary. Otherwise, how else will you know if your product is designed and produced correctly? " (My apologies article is in English only)
- Further thoughts by the author...January 2002
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Product Engineering - What Has Quality Got To Do With It?
"Quality is defined, not divined - It must be measurable or assessable and be based on the important, albeit imperfect, user, market, regulatory, technical and reproduction qualities of the product." (My apologies article is in English only)
- Further thoughts by the author...January 2002
  (My apologies article is in English only)
On... Good Product Engineering Practices
"The recurring development of successful new products (i.e. those, which achieve the business goals) is the lifeblood of any prosperous company, but unfortunately there are too many studies that reveal an extremely large failure rate of new product development programs (failure to achieve business goals)." (My apologies article is in English only)
- Further thoughts by the author...January 2002
  (My apologies article is in English only)
Product Development: Where Do You Start?
"Before embarking on a product development project, a total assessment of a product's expected life cycle should be examined to decide how to apportion 'limited' funds to the various development project activities in order to get the most 'development bang for the buck'." (My apologies article is in English only)
Ruminations: High Tech Monkey Business
"I've attempted to characterize the real meaning of these sound bytes... " (My apologies article is in English only)
- Further thoughts by the author...January 2002
  (My apologies article is in English only)
Cost Reduction -- It's More Than Just Parts And Labor
"... one really needs to take a holistic view of all the costs of product development, promotion, production, distribution and maintenance in order to effectively reduce these costs without compromising the whole product structure. " (My apologies article is in English only)
- Further thoughts by the author...January 2002
  (My apologies article is in English only)