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• Product Development Contracts - A Bunch of Insight
  "Outsourcing PD should always take place within a legal contract..."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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...
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• HALT/HASS and Accelerated Aging
  "The most common argument against HALT is that this test is going too far because it takes the product into its destruct limit".
  by: Peter Philips
   
• 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.."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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..."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• Cost Reduction During Product Development?
  "Cost awareness and minialization must be prevalent during development."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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..."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• The Challenges Of Platform Design: Is It Right For Your Organization?
  "Properly executing a platform design is one of the most challenging, complicated and rewarding tasks any designer or engineer can face."
  by: Thomas C. Merle
   
• The Realms of Testing...throughout a product's life-cycle
  "...is the process of defining a product's functionality..."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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"
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• Design for Manufacture in China
  "Why Home Grown Industrial Design is a Critical Success Factor"
  by: Scott Gibson
   
• 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...... "
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• Manufacturing Challenges for Start Up Companies
  "In start up mode tactics and action are top priority"
  by: William Hubbard
   
• The Business and Hidden Values of Prototyping During Product Development
  "Creation of value to all stakeholders is the bottom line for a prototype"
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• Challenges of Manufacturing RF Products
  "The manufacture of RF-based products requires a focused approach, certainly a RF-specific set of tools and know-how, and perhaps a stricter discipline than for non-RF products"
  by: Harvey Ikeman
   
• Contract Manufacturing - A Simple Overview
  "Why do we need all that for Contract Manufacturing?"
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• Getting Fit and Staying Fit With Your Contract Manufacturer
  "There are many elements of 'Fit'; few are measurable in a quantitative sense; most are subjective and depend on honest evaluation and, oftentimes, gut feel"
  by: Harvey Ikeman
   
• 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."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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? "
  • Further thoughts by the author...January 2002
    
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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."
  • Further thoughts by the author...January 2002
    
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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)."
  • Further thoughts by the author...January 2002
    
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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'."
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• Ruminations: High Tech Monkey Business
  "I've attempted to characterize the real meaning of these sound bytes... "
  • Further thoughts by the author...January 2002
    
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• 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. "
  • Further thoughts by the author...January 2002
    
  by: Richard (Dick) Haney
   
• IP Protection in China and Taiwan
  
  by: Case Engelen