Creo Customer: Game Changing 360 Degree Camera
Tamaggo says, “Say goodbye to lens attachments and stitched 360. Say hello to a new experience.” Weighing in at 7 oz, egg-shaped, and fitting snugly in the palm of your hand, this is a consumer camera...
View ArticleProduct Lifecycle Stories: Embrace Warmer Could Save Infant Lives in Rural...
India-based Bang Design produced the industrial design for a new portable incubator called the Embrace. It’s like a mini sleeping bag which can provide lifesaving heat to newborns. he industrial design...
View ArticleDesign Thinking. Bringing Empathy and Collaboration to Your Designs
Delving into how your customer will use your design can be a great way to starting creating. But the nuts and bolts of getting your team to realize the end user’s plight can be a long process. And so...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleExploring 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...
View ArticleDesign 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...
View ArticleCreo Customer: How Whirlpool Studio Engineering uses Creo for Concept Design
Whirlpool Corporation is the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of kitchen, laundry and home appliances. Whirlpool is a global company and markets Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Amana,...
View ArticlePTC Express: Cutting-Edge Designs from PTC Creo Parametric Freestyle
As companies upgrade blocky legacy designs to make them more stylized and ergonometric, they more than ever need specialized tools capable of defining the flowing surfaces that usually distinguish...
View ArticleBoston Globe: PTC Creo brings Super Sentai Series’ Power Rangers to life for...
“PTC Creo provides Bandai with the flexibility to use both direct and parametric modeling approaches for product design,” PTC said in a press release. “By allowing parametric feature-based models to be...
View ArticleSpecialized Story: From Industrial Design to Finish Line
In the United States, Specialized is a leading brand in the $6 billion bicycle industry. As the manufacturer of the first major mountain bike, the Stumpjumper, the company has a long history of...
View ArticlePTC Creo Customer: Britax Factory Tour
In May 2013, Britax USA opened its new headquarters in Fort Mill, South Carolina—about 15 miles south of its former facilities in Charlotte, NC. Why the move? For one thing, the PTC Creo customer...
View ArticleDiverse Client List, New Ideas, and Staying on Schedule with PTC Creo FMX
Have you ever seen an electronic billboard that’s also a Wi-Fi telephone cell? How about a solar-powered parking communication tower? That’s the challenge when you run an industrial design firm—clients...
View ArticleRed Dot Design Award Showcase of 2013 Winners
Happy Holidays to all of our readers! We hope you are making warm and enduring memories with your loved ones this season. And if you’re in the product development business, we hope all your hard and...
View ArticleDesigning Fun into the Kitchen with PTC Creo
Marketers at Kuhn Rikon will tell you that the company strives to create cookware that is both innovative and fun. But when you see a curvy red polka-dotted potato peeler in the catalog, you begin to...
View ArticleForma 5 Designs for Offices and Documentation with PTC Creo
Forma 5 is a furniture company that defines itself with good design and innovative technology. It’s motto? Designing your dreams. Based in Seville, Spain, the company and its team of more than 400...
View ArticleAt Home with PTC: Generation Brands
As a designer sitting down to create a light fixture for the first time, you’re likely to have a lot of questions—if you’re good at your job, that is. You might start with aesthetic questions, to help...
View ArticleVisualization and Rendering – The Bar Just Got Raised
While it’s not discussed much these days, the process of creating photo-realistic imagery based on 3D CAD models has long been part of the workflow of industrial designers (ID). What’s interesting is...
View ArticleWhat Every Engineer Should Know About Ugly Product Design
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but products are getting better looking—even in places where you wouldn’t expect it. Let’s look at two examples. The first is the humble forklift truck (which...
View ArticleImproving Design Skills: Where to Find Inspiration
A couple months ago, we looked at how the types of forms typically associated with the industrial design community are now becoming the responsibility of mechanical engineers. This time, I’m going to...
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