A recent Aberdeen Group study showed that best-in-class manufacturers — those that get products to market faster with the lowest change costs — build about half the number of physical prototypes than ...

It's often been said that form follows function. I prefer to think that function drives form. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true for modern CAD tools -- function is a slave to form (or geometry) ...

The treatment of functional features in design patents was discussed in the recent Federal Circuit case for Sport Dimension, Inc. v. The Coleman Company, Inc., Case No. 15-1553 (Fed. Cir. 2016). The ...

Do you need a design or functional specification? It depends on who your audience is and where you are in the product development cycle. People often confuse the purpose and role of functional ...

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What are software test libraries? The key role of diagnostic coverage in characterizing safety-mechanism effectiveness. How to approach target values. The magic behind today’s astonishing automotive ...

In basic layman’s terms, automotive safety is intended to enable an entire automotive electronic system to continue functioning in the event of a component malfunction. The goal of automotive safety ...

Computational protein design—the automated search for amino acid sequences with defined three-dimensional structures—opens exciting possibilities for the engineering of biomolecules with desired ...

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...