Adopting Rapid Prototyping for increased innovation
We know that as an Engineer you enjoy trying new things and solving problems that have not been solved before. Due to the ever increasing time-to-market pressures companies tend not to encourage this "outside the box" thinking. The desire to get products out to customers in shortest time is natural and often helps winning business by simply getting there first. One implication of such approach though is re-using previous design work, thus limiting innovation. While re-using previously validated circuits is by all means an excellent shortcut, the longer term consequence could be missing out on the advantage of new technologies, risking competition coming up with cheaper, more reliable and efficient products.
Investing time in tackling problems from a wider variety of angles does not have to mean longer design cycles. Rapid Prototyping methodology can neutralise the innovation overhead adding real benefits for the individual engineers: keeping skills up to date and staying abreast with latest technologies. The highly accessible DesignSpark resources complement the breadth of the RS Components product offer, forming a unique Rapid Prototyping environment READ MORE
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