Rugged Product Design: How to Get It Right

There has been a surge of interest in solar product development in recent years, driven by the growing demand for sustainable energy solutions.

As time goes on, more products are designed with integrated electronics to provide specific functionality or connectivity.

There are advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing physical / hardware product design and development to a U.S.-based company.

True startup productivity requires systematically figuring out the right things to build.

Talking about budgets — and in this case, a product development budget — can be uncomfortable.

To determine the cost to develop prototypes of manufactured products, consider these questions.

Different levels of prototyping are appropriate at different stages of development. These are the four levels of product development before reaching a final product.

Here's a list of several machine shop tools and processes that we as product developers employ.

When you hear the term virtual reality prototyping, do you instantly think of gaming?

From the smartphone in your pocket to the vehicle you drive, great products don’t just happen.

The market for connected products and IoT devices continues to grow.

We’ve come a long way since our company’s inception in 2008.

When AERO Specialties first reached out to us in 2013, we were eager to prove our ability to provide exceptional ground support equipment design.

August 2016 marked the second annual U.S. National Drone Racing Championships in New York City, the same year the Drone Racing League was publicly launched.

When people hear the word “empathy,” many think of how it affects our interpersonal relationships, specifically how we relate to and connect with other humans.

If you’ve been acquainted with SGW Designworks for a while, you know we are vocal champions of our clients’ successes.

Since its publishing in 2011, Eric Ries’s bestselling book The Lean Startup (along with its principles, like the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop) has ushered in an entrepreneurial revolution.

Engineers who have been around pre-CAD remember when sketching their designs on paper was a standard part of the engineering development process.

Mature businesses are keenly aware of the resources and investment required when commercializing an idea.

As a product development company, we focus on applying lean principles and working with insight.

Well-designed products make us happy.

If you wanted to embark on a new business venture but knew it had only a five percent chance of success, would you proceed?

A few months ago, several members of the SGW Designworks leadership team convened for a roundtable discussion that served as both a retrospective and a projection of where we see our company going in the months and years to come.

If the terms “feature creep,” “waterfall,” and “agile methodology” are a regular part of your vernacular, it’s safe to assume your career entails lean hardware development.