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How Acorn Found the Secret to Effective Asian Program Development

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How Acorn Found the Secret to Effective Asian Program Development. Minxiang Liu - Tuesday, January 28, 2014. When Tim Lau and I set up the first Acorn design center in China back in 2004, manufacturing foreign-designed products in China was growing at a high rate. A culture clash of prototyping vs planning. Furthermore, the management system in China was very results-oriented. Getting to a solution inexpensively and quickly was most important, vs. fostering an environment of experimentation and &...Where...

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Acorn Product Development | Product Engineering Portfolio

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UI, ergonomics, mechanics expertly interwoven. Developed a chassis thermal solution that accommodates more than 10 PCBs each in excess of 300 square inches and each containing high-power chips. Our detailed analysis of structural aspects, thermal results, tolerances, and DFM/DFA resolved key technical points quickly, making it possible to package all the electronics, cables, and mechanisms efficiently. Creative engineering yielded amazing results. Designing for a Tough Critic:. Steven P. Jobs. To learn m...

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Designing for a Tough Critic: Steven P. Jobs

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Designing for a Tough Critic: Steven P. Jobs. Ken Haven - Sunday, September 15, 2013. I don’t remember his exact words, but he spotted the difference and let us know that it was not going to fly. So, our concept was totally shot down from 10 feet away! If we hadn’t yet gotten the message that we were working to an entirely different standard, that episode made it very clear (I’ll talk more about this in a future blog). About the Author: Ken Haven is CEO and co-founder of Acorn Product Development.

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Acorn Product Development | Resources

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See how our experience and global connections can propel your product development to the next level of manufacturability and cost efficiency. OD Connector Tolerance Analysis. Explore the design process used to create an Orthogonal Connector-based chassis design without a mid-plane that meets the tolerances of a traditional chassis. Case study in reducing weight and cost, while improving ruggedness and designing for manufacturability in robotics design. By the Numbers: Designing for Assembly.

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Acorn Product Development | Industries Served

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Review the industries we serve. BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES. Expertise includes manufacturability and cost reduction, lab benchtop automation, microfluidics, high-power electronics, technician user interfaces, and product servicability. Illumina: valves and connectors. Inverness (Cholestech): disposable blood test cartridges. Millipore: valves and connectors. Motorola Solutions (Symbol Technologies): Symbol Handheld Scanner. ShoreTel: VOIP phone system. Dell Monitor Port Expander. Designed and co-develo...

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Acorn Product Development | Blog

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Comparing competitive bids Apples to Apples? Barry Braunstein - Thursday, June 16, 2016. Design Tradeoffs and Wearables. Barry Braunstein - Wednesday, June 08, 2016. In an ideal world, every product we create would have all the features and capabilities you’d ever want of course, this would eventually not work out for the producers of these products as why would you need to buy the next generation? The Next Big Thing In Medical Devices. Barry Braunstein - Wednesday, June 01, 2016. The Robot Revolution Ca...

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Acorn Product Development | Engineering Brief | Thermal Analysis

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Engineering Brief: Thermal Analysis. The Heat is On: Using Three-Stage Thermal Analysis to Design Cool Products. Enter Word Verification in box below.

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Acorn Product Development | Clients

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Acorn Product Development | Patents

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Review our list of patents. Technique for minimizing the height of a portable computer. Media module locking and ejecting mechanism. Gel electrophoresis well-forming and loading-guide comb. Learn about our services. Computer with an improved disk drive eject button actuation assembly. Point of sale device. Currency storage and dispensing apparatus. Gel casting and electrophoresis device. Computer enclosure with releasable interlocking mechanism between cover and chassis. Center release drive sled.