October 20, 2023

Technology Readiness Levels: How can they help today’s manufacturers?

38 minutes

In this episode...

Renaud hosts and is joined by Sofeast's senior engineer Paul Adams to go through Technology Readiness Levels which is a product development framework that is often used to gauge the progress of a new product launch project, especially during prototyping. But is it useful for today's manufacturers who are mass producing, say, consumer electronics? Find out here...

Show Sections

00:00 - Greetings and introducing today's topic.

01:08 - Where did the TRL originate?

04:37 - The 9 Technology Readiness Levels.

20:02 - Can we use this framework for products that will be mass-produced?

26:09 - What is missing from the TRL in order to manufacture products in large quantities?

37:38 - Wrapping up.

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