Product Realization: Going from One to a Million delivers a comprehensive treatment of the entire product launch process from beginning to end. Drawing upon the author’s extensive first-hand experience with dozens of successful product launches, the book explores the process of bringing a design from prototype to product. It illustrates the complicated and interdisciplinary process with vignettes and examples, provides checklists and templates to help teams, and points out common challenges teams will face.
Perfect for both students, start-ups, and engineers in the field, Product Realization: Going from One to a Million will be the go-to reference for engineers seeking practical advice and concrete strategies to launch higher quality products, at the right cost and on time.
About the Author
Professor Thornton earned her B.S.E. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. from Cambridge University. She started her career as a faculty member in MIT’s Mechanical Engineering department. During her time at MIT, her research focused on product development, manufacturing, and quality systems. After leaving MIT, she was a senior partner in Analytics Operations Engineering. At Analytics she worked with over 40 large companies to implement, streamline, and improve their product development, manufacturing and quality systems. As the Director of Engineering and Quality at Dragon Innovation she helped over 30 new hardware startups to transform prototype designs into final products. Prof. Thornton is now a Professor of the Practice in the Mechanical Engineering Department at BU where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in product development, manufacturing, additive manufacturing and product realization.
About the Illustrator
Karyn Knight Detering has been a graphic recorder and graphic facilitator for over fifteen years and has effectively been using visual communication to develop ideas and concepts for more than twenty-five years. Initially trained in Interior Architecture, Karyn coupled this dynamic skill set with her passion for education and training. Karyn returned to school and gained a postgraduate in Art & Design Education. Soon after graduating, Karyn moved to Africa to work at the Botswana College of Education lecturing in Design Education. She followed her work in Africa with a volunteer marketing assignment in the West Indies. In 2005 Karyn founded Ideas Take Shape, a graphic facilitation company that combines her wealth of experience and training to provide clients with creative ways to communicate their ideas, conversations, and visions of their future goals.
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