Making a working electronic gadget is relatively easy. One can buy a kit of parts or work though some notes and make a device for charging batteries or raise an alarm when the temperature drops. However, turning this into a commercial product requires many different skills.
Universities and colleges are very good at giving their students a solid grounding in the technology so that graduates can produce prototype designs that work. What they are not taught is how to turn those prototypes into commercial products that sell at a price that generates a profit for their companies.
Author Seggy T Segaran says “During my time on the board of Electronics Yorkshire my fellow directors always used to complain about the standard of electronic graduates coming out of university. There just did not seem to be a proper programme of training on turning their prototypes into commercial products”.
“So I set out to help graduates by putting down on paper some of my experiences over the last 30 years. As well as talk about the successes I include many mistakes that were made and how these could have been avoided.”
The book, which is available on Amazon in print as well as a Kindle version, covers a number of topics that is useful to the budding engineer such as the design of the enclosure, making sure that the product can be manufactured economically and that component tolerances have been taken into account. A good product designer also has to take into account regulatory requirements such as emissions and safety, make sure that the product is documented accurately for production and be confident that it can be easily supported in the field.
What marks this book out from others is the valuable contributions from industry experts as listed below:
Design for Recycling:
Alan Dukinfield of S2S Electronics Ltd
Benefits of good industrial design:
Peter Farrer of Glenelg Design
Designing for EMC - some tips:
Martyn Gawthorpe of Continental Compliance Ltd
ISO9001 and its benefits to businesses
Ray Mcdonough of Anode Electronics
Hints and tips regarding embedded software
Geoffrey Swales of Biodigital
The benefits of BAFBOX - a plastic folding technology
Ian Watson of Custom Design Technologies
“What I have attempted to do in this book is to try and prepare the new graduate for the world of engineering” stated Seggy.
Notes to editor:
1. Seggy T Segaran is Technical Director at Tele-products Ltd, a company he founded more than 25 years ago. He is also Managing Director of SF Innovations Ltd whose aim is to “Make Electronics fun”.
2. His other books are “Handbook of Portable Appliance Testing”, “Starting and Running a PAT Testing Business” and “The Battle to Get Traffic to Your Website”.
Editorial Contact:
Seggy T Segaran
SF Innovations Ltd
9 The Pastures
York, YO24 2JE
Tel: 0797 104 0079
e-mail: seggy@sf-innovations.co.uk
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