The last five years have been a chaotic one for the hardware and automotive industries which have witnessed high profile product recalls. In recent times, Samsung’s note7 recall debacle and Volkswagen's emission issues come to mind on how even the largest corporations fall victim to human error when designing a product. This means small sized manufacturers and start-ups are even more at risk of making certain errors when developing a product but in their case, small businesse

The joy that comes with successfully testing a product and seeing it work, is one that cannot be easily quantified for it is something you must personally experience to really know. And for most people in the hardware community, the joy of successfully testing a prototype is usually quickly replaced with frustration as one comes to learn that the tested hardware product must be certified before it can be introduced to markets. The next question which always comes to mind is;

Since the beginning of time, innovation has always been driven by unique ideas as well as the ability to actually bring those ideas to life and this is where process development has a role to play. In ancient Greece, innovators such as Galilee Galileo understood the rudiments of process development which was why he was able to consistently complete his innovative works in a time where most engineers where vilified for tardiness which resulted to unfinished projects. It is imp

In manufacturing circles, process development plays an important role in ensuring that every production system and procedures functions optimally. This is accomplished by ensuring every important step from the idea stage to taking a product to market is carried out in a way that efficiently maximizes the available human and capital resources assigned to a development cycle. And to ensure these management tasks are carried out properly, the process development engineer or rese

Truly, nothing is new under the sun and this tenet holds true in the field of project development today as well as with most aspects of human life. To understand why this cryptic introduction has been used to introduce a post on integrated project development (IDP), let us first attempt to define what IDP—which was coined in the 20th century—actually means. Integrated project development, is a work methodology emphasising the parallelization of tasks to cut production time th