Podcast Episode 10: A different perspective for seeing products

How do you look at any product? See just a thing that performs a certain function?

To me, any product is an assembly of materials that have been manipulated, modified, and formed into components that are brought together to make a product. Materials include metals, polymers, ceramics, textiles, and other materials.

In this episode I discuss my perspective on how I see a product and how it influences how I help design products to meet performance, reliability, and cost goals.

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This podcast episode is a companion to the article Product design - A different perspective.

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About the author

Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., P.E., is President of Industrial Metallurgists and a metallurgical engineering consultant with more than 30 years of experience in product design, manufacturing, failure analysis, and metallurgy training. He helps clients worldwide solve design and manufacturing problems and is the author of Materials Enabled Designs.

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