by R2FACT | Dec 13, 2017 | American Innovation, Product Development
As an Industrial Designer the efficiency and accuracy of measuring an object with complex shapes, angles, and curves is always a challenge in the beginning stages of CAD design and development. Whether it’s updating an existing product that only exists as a physical...
by R2FACT | May 20, 2017 | American Innovation, Product Development
Rapid prototyping through the use of 3d printers is a great method of creating plastic parts but how environmentally friendly can this process be? It all depends on the plastic material being extruded from the printer. The most common plastics used in consumer 3D...
by R2FACT | Jan 20, 2017 | American Innovation, Product Development
When it comes to product development, that’s the million dollar question. While in almost anything else you might purchase, you can look at a price tag and know exactly what it will cost Product development is not that simple, even for the simplest of products....
by R2FACT | Dec 8, 2016 | American Innovation, Product Development
In a room of more than 40 people, I knew no one, not a soul, except for the man of honor, Richard Branham, longtime KU professor of industrial design. I soon learned that the guests had traveled from Mexico, Brazil, China, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, New York and...
by R2FACT | Sep 20, 2016 | American Innovation, Product Development
“Tom, this is Bob with R2 Manufacturing, we have a problem. I can’t move forward until we talk.” This is a call you do not want to get. And this is why when you design a product, Design for Manufacturing DOES matter. After much thought and research, you now have an...
by Jeanne Bojarski | Dec 1, 2015 | American Innovation, Product Development
Steve Wozniak aka The Woz is a genius at engineering. He is also a very funny person, although he was incredibly shy in his early years. I guess becoming a founder of the most successful technology company in the world has pushed him beyond reticence into joking about...
