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Creo Customers: NASCAR Nose Redesign Puts the “Stock” Back in Stock Car Racing
Here’s a design challenge: Take a tricked out race car, make it look more like a production sedan, but don’t take away any of its performance. That’s what designer Bill Ferguson was asked to do with...
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Creo Customers: Santa Cruz seeks suspension bliss
Engineer friends–ready to geek out over bikes? In this episode of The Product Design Show, Vince and Allison give you a brief history of two-wheel innovation, and then show off an experimental...
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Creo Customer: Design Collaboration with Vendors
Starting with their world class mountain bike frame, Santa Cruz uses over fifty vendors to manufacture a near to perfect bike – headsets from Sram and Fox, bottom brackets by Shimano, Maverick hubs,...
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Cool Tools for Design Collaboration
There’s much talk about how Social Media is coming at the enterprise like a tidal wave that inevitably must be ridden. The intellectual protectionism of the past is being replaced with openness and...
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Creo Customer: Cleaning up the Big Messes
The Chariot series from Windsor Industries is a set of spry, compact, cleaning machines that are self-powered while the user stands on the backend. Windsor designed this line as a faster, cleaner, more...
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Creo Customer: Box Making Design Magic
Designers at System Group took on an interesting task: design a machine that will “know” how to create the perfect-sized box for a product. It’s an ideal invention for companies like Amazon that...
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The Evolution of Product Design Tools
Creating a solid concept design process is imperative to the success of a final product. Companies are seeing the concept design stage for the goldmine it is and turning it into both a professional...
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The Evolutionary Nature of Concept Designs
There is little argument that concept design is one of the most important phases of the entire product development process. It is here when new product ideas are tossed around, flushed out, vetted,...
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Exploring Model-based Engineering
The process of product development has changed significantly since the advent of modern parametric, feature-based 3D CAD software. Today, the 3D model has become an enriched gem of IP filled with...
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Design Tools Must Facilitate Rapid Model Changes
“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick” and so should today’s manufacturers. In order to survive in today’s fast-moving, globally competitive world, manufacturers must be agile and highly responsive to rapid...
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