People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

Systematically expounding functional design of reported triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). Conducting an extensive comparison of the power conversion efficiencies of TENGs in air and water wave ...

It's often been said that form follows function. I prefer to think that function drives form. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true for modern CAD tools -- function is a slave to form (or geometry) ...

During the design process, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is typically used to assess how equipment and machinery might fail. Recent functional safety design legislation in the EU has ...

Antonia Bremeyer is the founder & CEO of Cordée Cases, where she focuses on product innovation in the consumer mobile accessories industry. For many years, consumer product design was largely driven ...

If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: Documentation is the least favorite part of engineering. But it also may be one of the most important and is growing to be more so. This was made ...