THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

The process used to development new and innovative products can be extremely repeatable even when the objects designed, engineered, and manufactured are vastly different.

Our roots began at the beginning of the process where choices can be extremely subjective.  Over the course of developing hundreds of different products, we continued to dive deeper into the later and more objective phases of product development and execution.

We categorize these stages into the follow four groups of capabilities that closely follow well established new product development process.  Rute regularly quotes and completes projects that range from just one of these task to all of them and more.  We are highly flexible in this area and can tailor a project for individual entrepreneurs and inventors all the way up to large corporations with stringent stage gate processes.

DESIGN

Research

Industrial Design

Branding

Human Centered Design

System Level Design

ENGINEERING

Mechanism Design

Electro-mechanical Design

Design for Manufacture

Design for Assembly

Handoff Documentation

VISUALIZATION

Photo-Real Rendering

Virtual Still Photography

Sales, Marketing, and Technical  Animations

Virtual Prototyping

VR / AR Real-time Presentations

MANUFACTURING

In-house Prototyping

In-house Micro Manufacturing

Design for Specific Manufacturing Facilities

Sourcing Support