Systems Engineering is a dense and challenging field. From the unparalleled NASA Systems Engineering Handbook to INCOSE’S thorough and accessible Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge to the IEC 15288 standard for system life cycle processes, the resources are abundant but overwhelming. As a practical complement to...
At Key Tech, we are obsessed with users. Who are they and what is their background or level of training? What are their needs, limitations, and frustrations with their current workflow? What pain or illness are they suffering from? And how can we design products...
When your fledgling product development company has six engineers, you’re hard-pressed to not think at a system level. You’re in every meeting. You know all the specs because you helped write them. And you have a deep, nuanced understanding of that one weird, fascinating bug...
Patients are increasingly using mobile healthcare devices in the home, and everyone, including patients, caregivers and insurance payers, is interested in access to the wide range of data associated with patient healthcare. This is driving increased demand for wireless communication of healthcare data. While the...
Last October, Bill Doyle of the oncological treatment company Novocure gave a TED lecture on a novel cancer treatment method that his company is developing. The therapy involves exposing cancer cells to a low-intensity alternating electric field at a few hundred hertz, which disrupts cell...