Considering the following shipping-related factors during the product design phase can contribute significantly to a company becoming more profitable. How will your new product fit into your existing ...

Customers have been frustrated, injured and even killed by confusing instructions, unclear operating procedures and poorly designed controls. In some cases, these interfaces and instructions were ...

FDA's quality system regulation (QSR) requirements essentially mandate the application of human factors processes and design principles in medical device development. 1 As Peter Carstensen, FDA's ...

Product adaptation is the process by which a company adjusts and improves upon a product to make it more appealing to the target market. The owner might adapt her own product or improve upon an ...

U.S. and EU regulators require human factors and usability testing to bring a medical device to market. Virginia Lang, PhD, president and chief scientist at HirLan Inc., an engineering consultancy ...

Power-electronics design involves a multiplicity of tradeoffs that can be guided by criteria that are useful in assessing how close a design is to optimum. This article surveys some common guiding ...

Courses exist within larger contexts that influence their design and facilitation. Determining which factors are most important for the context of your course can be very helpful. These factors may ...

Designing a product is truly a labor of love that only those who get to breathe the rarified air of being designers can fully appreciate! One has to see a vision in their mind, commit it to some sort ...