Every year, Industrial Designers come together for one weekend to attend the regional IDSA (Industrial Design Society of America) conference. This year, the North East chapter was held at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence Rhode Island, and Jeremy Savage and I...
There's a fine line everyone must draw between what you'll do yourself and what it's worthwhile to pay someone else to do. It's true in business just as it is at home. And, it's not just about efficiency, it's about quality....
As designers, we can improve our injection molded parts to make them perform better and require less expensive tools. Check out this design guide we came across to get you started....
I recently watched an interesting talk given by Atul Gawande, whose book The Checklist Manifesto has reached the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list this year, talking about some interesting benefits of using a checklist and how such a seemingly insignificant and low tech idea...
Inside most kitchens, a lemon leads a normal life, being integrated into a delicious dish or drink. But many science students have found in their classroom experiments that a lemon is no mere fruit....
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. ...
The Industrial Design Department at Key Tech is proud to announce the addition of Erik Askin. Erik is a talented designer who recently graduated from RISD....
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....
Are you a tinkerer? For those of us that are concerned about how best to crack open a $1,000 MacBook with a critical soda problem yet have the compelling desire to take it apart anyway, there is help....
As part of the V&V test procedure, we designed a gravimetric means to characterize the volumetric and flow-rate accuracy of a couple of precision injection instruments. With this setup, we're able to achieve measurement resolution of just 0.1 milligram and reduced the error due to...
