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Every week the Product Design Show digs into the engineering and design behind well-known products. Vince and Allison deliver a fast-paced and entertaining show that features their unique combination of story-telling and humor.

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Product Design Show - ENGINEERING.com episodes:

09.25.2013
Biomimicry. When Nature Inspires Design
Vince and Allison report on important examples of biology in design, from birds in flight to a new car whose shape was inspired by a box fish.
09.04.2013
The Future of Factory Automation
Since the 1970 factories have become ever more automated. In this episode Allison and Vince look at current trends in factory automation and show how networked facilities are changing the landscape of manufacturing.
08.16.2013
Materials Control in Complex Products
Complex supply chains can lead to unwanted or prohibited materials in your product. In this episode, Vince and Allison review how product design teams can meet regulatory and company goals for complex global products.
08.09.2013
Designing for Emission Control
2025 CAFE standards are forcing auto designers to upgrade existing technology. The internal combustion engine can become a lot more efficient, but it will take a lot of intensely collaborative design work. In this episode, Allison and Vince cover some...
07.24.2013
Chair Ergonomics Presents a Design Challenge
People don’t always sit up straight, especially when using portable electronics. New designs show smart engineering.
07.17.2013
Revolutionary Office Chair Design
Designers at Steelcase surveyed thousands of users on how they sit when using new devices like smartphones and tablets at the office. They found that common office chairs don’t support the way people sit, which led them to a revolutionary...
07.10.2013
Designing Motorcycles for Endurance and Performance
The Dakar off-road motorcycle race has daily sections of up to 550 miles. The design team at KTM has produced winning bikes for the last 12 Dakars. In this episode, Vince and Allison share the unique challenges and winning formulas...
05.29.2013
Electronics in Mechanical Product Design
Embedding electronics demands new processes and technology for product design.
05.15.2013
Designing Products that are Easy to Assemble
Vince and Allison speak with designers at toy company, k'nex, and learn a few things about designing products that will be assembled in the field.
04.24.2013
Complying with Sustainable Design Requirements
How do designers meet regulatory requirements and consumer preferences for sustainable design? Vince and Allison delve into design practices that comply with standards like RoHS and Reach.
04.17.2013
Product Design for Emerging Markets
Emerging markets represent the biggest sales opportunities for western brands. But what’s a designer to do when competitors release a $65 smartphone tailored to the needs of those consumers? In this episode, Vince and Allison explore design challenges for foreign...
03.13.2013
Multi-CAD Environments are the New Normal for Design
Why do different CAD systems cause a problem for designers? It comes down to the feature definitions in the various packages. Newer software does a better job of geometric translation. That’s a good thing, since multi-CAD environments aren’t going away...
03.06.2013
Retrieving Design Intent for Old Models
Vince and Allison discuss how to retrieve the design intent from a CAD model even though the original designers no longer work at the company. This episode shows how to edit CAD models without knowledge of the model's feature history.
02.13.2013
Modifying a design from another CAD system
Vince and Allison show how a supplier can use direct modeling to modify a design from a customer that’s in a different CAD format.
01.23.2013
The Whats and Whys of Direct Modeling
Vince and Allison explain direct modeling and compare it to parametric modeling, using lots of examples.
01.09.2013
Late Stage Design Changes
Allison and Vince overview the concept of Flexible Modeling, a combination of parametric and direct modeling environments. Vince uses direct modeling to accommodate Allison’s late stage design change even though the original part was designed with parametric modeling.
12.23.2012
Parametric Modeling - Pros and Cons
In this episode Allison and Vince review the reasons why parametric modeling provides such a powerful CAD environment, but recognize that it's not necessarily the best solution in every case.
12.11.2012
Modernizing Product Concept Design
In this episode Allison and Vince show you how CAD systems have advanced to bring the most important part of your business, Concept Design, into the 21st century.
11.28.2012
Top Down and Bottom Up Design
In this episode, Vince and Allison talk about when top down design is the right way to go and the value that design teams can get from a bottom up approach.
10.25.2012
Integrative Thinking and Experimentalism in Design Thinking
In this episode of the Product Design Show, Vince and Allison explore the last two components of design thinking, integrative thinking and experimentalism, and explain why those two elements are crucial to the whole process.
10.18.2012
Design Thinking. Bringing Empathy and Collaboration to Your Designs
Design Thinking is a process of bringing integrative thinking, experimentalism, collaboration and empathy into the design process in a structured way. In this episode Vince and Allison walk us through the empathy and collaboration aspects of this framework.
10.10.2012
The Evolution of Product Design Tools
Product concept design tools have come a long way from hand sketches. Even proper drafting rules made a big difference, and so have computer design tools. Now designers are using social media to bring consumer interaction into the concept stage...
09.19.2012
Product Concept Design - Past and Future
Every product starts off as an idea. Product Concept Design is all about shaping that idea into a real product. In today’s episode Vince and Allison look at how modern Product Concept Design has developed, and where it’s going.
08.08.2012
High Performance Strollers
Designers at Babyzen redefined the traditional umbrella stroller to address 3 major performance headaches.
07.25.2012
Design Issues in Modern Warfare
Counter insurgency warfare demands split-second decision making and real time information. In this episode, Vince and Allison review the design of a throwable reconnaissance robot.
07.18.2012
How to Design Craftsmanship Into Woodworking Tools
Lee Valley Tools design engineers are "judged against history" when developing new products. Vince and Allison take us through the redesign of a block plane that keeps the comfort and familiarity of previous tools while improving the overall performance.
07.11.2012
360 Degree Camera
Vince and Allison show the egg shaped Tamaggo, a soon-to-be-released camera whose unusual 360 degree image created unique design challenges.
05.30.2012
Stiffer Chassis With Less Weight
Ram Racing redesigned their Formula SAE car to increase stiffness by 100% and reduce weight by 10 lbs, leading to big reductions in lap time.
05.23.2012
Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday
Aston Martin Racing takes lessons from the race track to inform their consumer car designs.
05.16.2012
Designing Machines that Make Machines
Whether you’re producing plastic or metal products, you’re likely using machines to shape them. In this episode of The Product Design Show, Vince and Allison talk to JR Automation Technologies about their design of an assembly line that manufactures coolant...
05.02.2012
Box Making Design Magic
Designers from System Group wanted to build a fully autonomous packaging machine that could build a box for any sort of product. Allison and Vince show how they incorporated bar code data to predetermine the right size box. The result...
04.25.2012
NASCAR High Speed Redesign
Drafting helps cars go faster on the race track, but NASCAR fans were complaining that too much drafting makes races less exciting. So on Jan 10th, NASCAR changed the design rules. That’s good news for fans, but bad news if...
04.11.2012
Bottom up Robot Design
Even professional design teams can learn a few things from the FIRST Robotics competitions. In this episode, Vince and Allison report on a project to design and build a robot that can shoot a ball into a basket. The student...
04.04.2012
Cleaning up the big messes
Design engineers put a lot of effort into commercial cleaning vehicles, as Vince and Allison discover. All those scrubbing, squeegeeing and drive train components have to fit together somehow.
03.28.2012
Demolition - Designing Tools for Deconstruction
What's the ultimate tool for demolition? In this episode, Allison and Vince talk to designers who went well beyond the sledge hammer to create a portable tool for tearing down infrastructure.
03.14.2012
Building Design that Pushes Engineering Limits
Architects designed a huge cantilevered canopy for the new Francis A Gregory library in Washington DC. Problem was, hanging a canopy 40 feet from its support isn’t an easy engineering challenge, as the engineers from CST Covers pointed out. Vince...
03.07.2012
Designing the Signature Sound of Car Exhaust
We’ve all heard the distinctive rumble of a performance car. This week we spoke with Pat Hodgins, Chief Engineer of Callaway about how they design that signature sound into their cars.
02.29.2012
Designing replacements for human limbs
Prosthetic designers face a fascinating range of issues when designing devices that simulate normal walking. In this episode Vince and Allison review how designers control the proportional loads from walking by capturing and harnessing the ground strike forces.
02.22.2012
Designing Indy Cars that Stay on the Track
Indy cars can flip after an initial crash, like Franchitti's famous crash in 2007. Allison and Vince talk to engineers at Dallara about their redesign that makes such famous flips less likely.
02.15.2012
Cool Tools for Design Collaboration
Allison and Vince show a range of collaboration tools that help designers collaborate with suppliers on product concepts without sharing the full intellectual property of their designs.
02.08.2012
Design Collaboration with Vendors
In this episode Vince and Allison show us the intricacies of designing and manufacturing a carbon bicycle frame, and how one mountain bike company benefitted from incorporating one of their vendors into the design process.
01.25.2012
Social Media in Product Design
In this episode Vince and Allison focus on tools to help an internal design team collaborate, from Social Media to Top Down Design to Skeleton models.
01.18.2012
Designing Successful Prosthetic Legs
Fit and alignment are the keys to making prosthesis wearers achieve a proper gait. And gathering good data is the key to getting the alignment right. In this episode, Vince and Allison show how designers measure the complex forces and...
01.11.2012
Crime-Fighting Police Robot
There are already police robots currently on the market. However, in this week’s episode, Vince and Allison show us one that can also climb stairs…and be built at an economical price.
01.04.2012
An Electric Harley
Green-powered vehicles typically look anything but cool. This week Vince and Allison show us an electric motorcycle that really turns heads.
12.14.2011
Voice of the Customer
In this episode Vince and Allison share tips and techniques to incorporate the voice of the customer into your product designs.
12.07.2011
Fighting Fire With Engineering
Firemen need a steady flow of water through the nozzle to safely put out fires. In this episode, Vince and Allison explain the design challenges of matching water flow to the different water pressure available at a variety of fire...
11.16.2011
Extreme Picking and Packing
This week Vince and Allison take us on a tour of a high-speed warehouse that features packing machines operating at ground speeds of over 70 mph. Imagine how fast you could pack for your trip to Vegas, baby.
11.09.2011
Designing for Light Reflection
Architects typically consider the reflection of light in their work. In this episode, Allison and Vince show us how it is becoming increasingly significant to engineers, and their designs, as well.
11.02.2011
Rocket Speed Packaging Machine
New packaging machine custom measures and cuts cardboard to fit all sorts of products. Vince and Allison walk us through how it wraps a box of tiles. Imagine what this could do for your Christmas wrapping.

What's Product Design Show - ENGINEERING.com about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Product Design Show - ENGINEERING.com episodes:

Biomimicry. When Nature Inspires Design

The Future of Factory Automation

Materials Control in Complex Products

Designing for Emission Control

Chair Ergonomics Presents a Design Challenge

Revolutionary Office Chair Design

Designing Motorcycles for Endurance and Performance

Electronics in Mechanical Product Design

Designing Products that are Easy to Assemble

Complying with Sustainable Design Requirements

Product Design for Emerging Markets

Multi-CAD Environments are the New Normal for Design

Retrieving Design Intent for Old Models

Modifying a design from another CAD system

The Whats and Whys of Direct Modeling

Late Stage Design Changes

Parametric Modeling - Pros and Cons

Modernizing Product Concept Design

Top Down and Bottom Up Design

Integrative Thinking and Experimentalism in Design Thinking

Design Thinking. Bringing Empathy and Collaboration to Your Designs

The Evolution of Product Design Tools

Product Concept Design - Past and Future

High Performance Strollers

Design Issues in Modern Warfare

How to Design Craftsmanship Into Woodworking Tools

360 Degree Camera

Stiffer Chassis With Less Weight

Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday

Designing Machines that Make Machines

Box Making Design Magic

NASCAR High Speed Redesign

Bottom up Robot Design

Cleaning up the big messes

Demolition - Designing Tools for Deconstruction

Building Design that Pushes Engineering Limits

Designing the Signature Sound of Car Exhaust

Designing replacements for human limbs

Designing Indy Cars that Stay on the Track

Cool Tools for Design Collaboration

Design Collaboration with Vendors

Social Media in Product Design

Designing Successful Prosthetic Legs

Crime-Fighting Police Robot

An Electric Harley

Voice of the Customer

Fighting Fire With Engineering

Extreme Picking and Packing

Designing for Light Reflection

Rocket Speed Packaging Machine