It’s that time of the year when many of us are hoping to dodge the latest cold and flu germs that are being circulated amongst friends, family and colleagues. As we move into spring, it is heartening to witness that many people are still going strong with their individual fitness routines, whatever they may be. I, for one, would certainly find it hard to identify someone that wasn’t measuring their steps with some fitness device or another.
Like the next person, I try to keep as fit as I am able to in my own personal life. However, in my professional field of mechanical design engineering and more specifically, new product design, producing something that is 100% fit for purpose, is a complete given. When I am handed the details of a new design to work upon, it is my job to technically assess and analyse whether the concept, once produced, will be good enough for the end consumer to utilise. If I am in any doubt as to whether it will be unable to fulfil the task which it is expected to achieve, then I must put forward suitable suggestions and design changes, whilst considering other associated business factors such as the manufacturing process and budgetary constraints. These subtle or radical alterations could take the form of suggesting an alternative to the original materials selected or a change to the functionality. The main aim for any product designer being, that the end product is useful to the consumer and does the job well.
I have recently been providing technical consulting support for a client where I have had to delve deeper than normal, to think completely ‘out of the box’, in order to come up with a design change and prototype that is considered by the customer to be fit for purpose.
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