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Tag: Engineering Metrics

July 29, 2011

Offline or Inline Technology Development: Which Do You Use?

Quite a few years ago, I remember taking a road trip in the summer. Not a family road trip to see the Grand Canyon or an all nighter drive to New Orleans. No, this one was for work. I visited a number of manufacturers at the time, taking tours of their facilities and conducting interviews to understand their product development …
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July 14, 2011

Today’s ‘Jacked-Up’ Metrics for Engineering Productivity

How does your management team track the progress of engineering projects? I’ve been asking that question a lot lately. And the more answers I get the more I become intrigued. You see I’ve been looking at how engineering projects are assessed alongside how executives are making the decisions to continue to fund them or not. And over the past few …
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Mechanical Design
July 11, 2011

Agile Development for Mechatronics Products?

“We don’t have enough engineers.” That’s was the takeaway headline, according to a Computerworld article, from Obama’s speech back in the middle of June. For anyone that’s been tracking the STEM shortfall issue, that might not come as a terrible surprise. Yet there was one other issue I came across in this summary that did surprise me. Here it is. …
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Agile for Hardware
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Mechanical Design
March 11, 2011

Macro and Micro Product Development

Can process really differentiate your company? I know. It's an longtime debate. In fact, thinking back several years now, I remember it almost as an ongoing joke. And the story would always be the same. Folks from a software provider would sit down with a customer to talk about their processes. The people from the manufacturer would always declare with a laugh: "our process is totally unique. You will have never seen anything like what we do as a process because it's what differentiates us in the market."
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Education and Career Insights
March 2, 2011

Where Lean Product Development Goes Wrong

Surprising how time flies by isn't it. Here we are, now in March of 2011 and I'm thinking to myself "how did that happen?" Feeling the need to catch up, I called a friend of mine here in Austin and went to grab a drink. We spent a while catching up but soon enough, our conversation steered towards shop-talk. See, he's an been deploying lean, six sigma and other similar initiatives for years. And what he said surprised me a bit.
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Agile for Hardware
Education and Career Insights
January 17, 2011

The Ineffectiveness of Measuring Design Effectiveness

Metrics. It's seems as if today's business world is ruled by them. Metrics are essentially pervasive in just about every functional department in a manufacturer.
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