Category Archives: Product Design

Chad Schneider

HSA’s and medical devices

09.07.2010 by Chad Schneider

Has the Health Savings Account affected consumer’s spending habits? Is that affecting the design specification for consumer medical devices?

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Error Term Propagation

08.31.2010 by Chad Schneider

Building products on the assembly line, we need to be sure all of the parts will fit together. But, manufacturing variations may pose problems. Here how to account for them.

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Chad Schneider

Notice to Staff: You rock! – The Mgmt

08.03.2010 by Chad Schneider

As a service company, our staff is our most important asset. Without them, we’d just have a bunch of lonely computers sitting around hoping to one day become self-aware. As such, we work hard to find great people, and we’ve found some of the greatest.

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Medical Device Interoperability

07.27.2010 by Chad Schneider

Is it possible to verify and validate the safety and efficacy of medical devices if they could be connected to unknown current and future products? The medical device industry is working with the FDA to work out the safety issues of device interoperability.

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What is your experience in developing electromechanical devices?

03.23.2010 by Chad Schneider

Nearly every device we develop is electromechanical. Key Tech specializes in designing custom complex products and electromechanical devices.

FAQ, Product Design
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What are your mechanical and electrical rapid prototyping capabilities?

03.02.2010 by Chad Schneider

Key Tech accomplishes prototyping by leveraging a network of approximately three dozen prototyping vendors, selecting the method and vendor based on the best match to your application. Multiple suppliers keep us current with the state of the art technologies and allow for flexibility and speed in the prototyping process.

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Born with questions

01.26.2010 by Chad Schneider

Is asking the right questions something that can be taught, or do you have to be born with this twisted skill?

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Chad Schneider

Components of Design

01.19.2010 by Chad Schneider

Thanks to Jessica Hagy at Indexed for inspiring the format. Some ideas are just better depicted graphically.

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Keith Lipford

Why is ISO-certification good for a design firm?

12.22.2009 by Keith Lipford

Without robust design processes, it is all too easy to lose track of critical design issues – the consequence of which is usually schedule delays, added costs, and/or undesirable design compromises.

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Starting Your Product Specification

12.15.2009 by Chad Schneider

Creating a detailed Product Specification is one of the most important steps one can take at the beginning of new product development. If the spec defines the entire sphere of possibilities, what needs to be included (and excluded) here?

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