In a follow up to our previous blog post, Top 10 Tips For Designing Injection Molded Plastic Parts, I have listed 10 more advanced tips for designing plastic injection molding… Read More
Last Fall, I got the opportunity to take a short trip down to San Francisco and attend the free AWS (Amazon Web Services) IoT Builders Day workshop. This event was… Read More
Have you run your firmware, found a repeatable bug, but weren’t able to reproduce the issue when single stepping through the code with your debugger? Maybe your internal watchdog block… Read More
If you described my lifestyle lately as “Doing math and playing outside,” I could hardly criticize you. Like many other engineers at Simplexity, I spend a fair amount of time… Read More
In this blog post we will explore two audio receivers, which are a stereo system’s control center for audio and video sources. Specifically, we will compare a Beomaster 1900 receiver,… Read More
Introduction Optical systems have always been important, and today they are more important than ever. Even before engineering, before lenses and curved mirrors, optics were important to animals with eyes. … Read More
I had the opportunity to attend WEARCon 2019 in the Seattle area. WEARCon hosted a mix of speakers and presenters that represented textiles, hardware, regulatory, design, and product companies. With… Read More
Last month I attended the WE Local conference in Bellevue, WA. WE Local (SWE Local 2019) is a Society of Women Engineers (SWE) program that brings together participants in all… Read More
Simplexity Product Development has been designing wearable electronic products since 2013 when we were selected by Microsoft as one of their key design partners for the Microsoft Band. The Microsoft… Read More
So, you’ve found a niche in the ever-growing world of biotech! You’ve past the initial hurdle of closing the first round of funding and now you’re on the hook to… Read More
Software: Design Complete
Hardware: Pre-production units for design verification
MFG. Readiness: CM schedule and budget, Unit build tracking
Software: Full feature implementationHardware: Prototype 2 units with production-representative materials and processes
Quality: Build Quality PlanSoftware: Core functionality implementationHardware: Prototype 1 units with rapid prototyped components
Quality: Critical manufacturing process identificationSoftware: Architecture design: block, sequence and state diagramsHardware: Major Component definition & Proof of Concept subsystems build
Quality: Design for Manufacturing tradeoffs evaluation