Rob Capaldi News Today

3rd March 2021 7:00 am 1st March 2021 1:12 pm DFA is a vital part of the industrialisation process for complex products, writes Rob Capaldi, Ricardo Performance Products Market Head for Industrialisation.  As part of Industrialising Innovation Week we are discussing the process required to transition innovative products from the concept phase through development and into production, focusing on physical products of high complexity, operating in performance-critical applications.   Wh...

2nd March 2021 7:00 am 1st March 2021 12:52 pm Rob Capaldi, Ricardo Performance Products Market Head for Industrialisation, examines the key steps on the journey from product concept to full-scale manufacturing.  When we talk about industrialising innovation we are referring to the transition of a product through the development phases from ‘idea’ to ‘manufacturing’. The phases of development are well documented with most companies implementing their own variant of a product de...

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