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In the world of hardware new product introduction, a broken process can have severe consequences, jeopardizing the success of a product launch and hurting the reputation of a company. So, it is crucial to understand the warning signs that a process is disfunctional. Whether it's slipping schedules, exceeding budgets, or missing requirements, recognizing the signs allows teams to intervene in time.

As part of PRG's Ask the Expert series, Jay Feldis gives an opinion on the benefits that come from using an agile hardware development process over the more traditional waterfall process.

As part of PRG's Ask the Expert series, Howard Edelman answers how supply chain issues have affected hardware product development.

One major problem that often plagues companies is what can be termed the "silent lie." This practice involves individuals within an organization misrepresenting the truth and presenting a more favorable impression or obfuscating bad news.

In the first part of this series, we explained the benefits of Knowledge-Driven Product Development (KDPD), a way to blend analytical and empirical data to arrive at a more complete, objective, understanding of the design. In this part, we break down the individual steps as a team might experience them in the real work. In this part, we break down the individual steps as a team might [...]

There is a spectrum of product development methodologies with two in particular that we would like to compare and contrast: Design By Analogy (DBA); and Knowledge Driven Product Development (KDPD). DBA is a “feel good” approach that satisfies one of the very basic tenets of good engineering, namely “don’t reinvent the wheel”.

Proactively address compliance failure to keep your product on track. Michael Keer explains how as part of PRG's Ask the Expert series.

We've explored the crucial stages of design, planning, development, as well as controlled introduction. Now, we arrive at the pivotal point of Volume Manufacturing, where we will learn how it can be leveraged to increase efficiency, improve quality and lower costs to effectively scale your business.

As part of PRG's Ask the Expert series, Jay Feldis tells us what can go wrong if a formal process is not followed during the transition from prototype to manufacturing.

Now, in this final blog in the controlled Introduction series, we discuss the importance of customer trials, identifying and developing trial customers, running the trials and how to leverage the learnings resulting from these trials to benefit your business.

As part of PRG's Ask the Expert series, Howard Edelman answers how to overcome the specifics of this challenge which we see in many companies.