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.

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Biomimicry. When Nature Inspires Design

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.

The Future of Factory Automation

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.

Materials Control in Complex Products

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 of these opportunities.

Designing for Emission Control

People don’t always sit up straight, especially when using portable electronics. New designs show smart engineering.

Chair Ergonomics Presents a Design Challenge

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 new office chair design.

Revolutionary Office Chair Design

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 from KTM’s motorcycle design team.

Designing Motorcycles for Endurance and Performance

Embedding electronics demands new processes and technology for product design.

Electronics in Mechanical Product Design

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.

Designing Products that are Easy to Assemble

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.

Complying with Sustainable Design Requirements

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 markets.

Product Design for Emerging Markets

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 any time soon.

Multi-CAD Environments are the New Normal for Design

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.

Retrieving Design Intent for Old Models

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.

Modifying a design from another CAD system

Vince and Allison explain direct modeling and compare it to parametric modeling, using lots of examples.

The Whats and Whys of Direct Modeling

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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