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Articles, White Papers & More
We invite you to spend time browsing our collection of articles and white papers, developed to educate you about product development, outsourced design engineering and more. As always, these papers are provided complimentary and without any registration required.
Part Two – Estimating the Value of Products
This paper assists you in defining the revenue impact of product development, and together with Part One, you’ll be able to calculate the true ROA for past, planned and future products.
Part One – How Much Does Engineering Really Cost?
Research and product development are strategic investments intended to produce future profits for a company. This paper is Part One in a series of two designed to help you understand the true cost of engineering.
Product Development is Core to Your Success
Businesses have performed research and product development activities for hundreds of years. Yet new products—from the most experienced and established industries—can frequently fail, creating disastrous consequences. To most business people, it is unnerving to see how the smallest design errors can have huge impacts on profits and long term brand loyalty.
Automated Unit Testing
Automated unit testing aids the development of high quality code, in addition to easing the inevitable task of changing that code at a later date. A suite of automated unit tests provides an “executable specification” for the functionality of each module in a software design, and allows that functionality to be repeatably re-verified as the software evolves. Empirical studies of teams that have incorporated automated unit testing into their development process have found up to 267% reductions in the number of bugs found in the delivered software (Ynchausti 2001).
Mixed Java And C Language Debugging
This whitepaper details the procedures required to accomplish concurrent debugging of a Java application that calls native C language code in a shared library via the JNI (Java Native Interface). The solution presented utilizes the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment) Java debugger and the stand-alone Insight C debugger running on a Linux platform.
Software Button Debouncing and Ergonomics
This whitepaper discusses the goals of button debouncing and some algorithms to help you solve the many issues associated with this embedded system.
How to Add USB to Your Product: A Checklist
This whitepaper will help you determine if there is a demand for USB in your industry, whether USB makes sense from a marketing and sales perspective and whether it is right for your product.
2006 NPD Trends Survey Results
Through a poll of 5,000 engineering executives, Syncroness, Inc. has determined top factors which drive outsourcing of new product development (NPD) activity. According to the study, 83% of respondents had outsourced some or all of NPD activity, confirming that outsourcing of core product development is extremely important in today’s market.
Effective Product Development Outsourcing
This paper attempts to define the various aspects of a relationship with a product development outsourcing entity. It also defines various organizational models and attempts to match characteristics of each with outsourcing types. Observations are based on research findings conducted by Syncroness, Inc., a leading provider of product development services within the US industry.
Developing a High Altitude Simulating, Dynamic, Ground Test Capability at the Holloman AFB High Speed Test Track
Advances in the capabilities of jet engines over the last ten years combined with a new Presidential mandate to replace the space shuttle require the United States Air Force (USAF) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to cost effectively develop and demonstrate new and emerging jet engine technologies such as scramjets and pulse detonating engines.
In House Labor Calculator
Calculate internal product development costs