Product Development Services Listing
Areas of Expertise in Product Development
We grow our clients' revenue through the successful development and launch of innovations. Slingshot offers a complete set of vertically integrated services for converting product opportunity space into new product revenue:
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New Product Strategy
- Solution Focused Brainstorming
- Brainstorm Facilitation and Training
- Competitive Product Research
- Category Analysis
- User Research
- Product / Brand Strategy
- Design Audit Services
Front End Research
- Ethnography
- Needs / Opportunities Analysis
- Shop Along Interviews
- Persona Creation
- Web and Phone Based Survey
- Contextual Inquiry
Industrial Design
- Ideation and Concept Generation
- Product Architecture Development
- Concept Refinement
- Form and Aesthetic Development
- Ergonomics, Human Factors, and Anthropometric Design
- Color Scheme and Material Selection
- Interface Development
- Development of a Consistent Family Aesthetic for Entire Product Lines
- Presentation-level Product Renderings, Marketing Collateral
Engineering
- Detail Engineering
- Quote Level Engineering
- Product Engineering
- Castings, Soft Goods, etc.
- Design for Manufacture – Plastics, Sheet Metal, Castings, Soft Goods, etc.
- Design for Foreign or Domestic Manufacture
- Pro Engineer and Solidworks Modeling
- Optimization for Cost and Performance
Materials Science
- Materials Research
- Materials Selection
- Testing and Evaluation
- Material Performance Optimization
- Materials Innovation
Electronics
- Technical Specifications
- System Design
- Hardware Design
- Software Architecture
- Hardware and Software Implimentation
- PCB Design and Layout
- Linux Kernel Development
- Operational Support
- Manufacturing Support
- Off-Shore Manufacturing Set Up
Sustainability
- Comparative Sustainability Audit
- Sustainability Profile Improvement and Optimization
- Material Replacement Evaluation
- Sustainability SWOT Analysis
Prototyping
- Virtual Prototypes
- Proof of Concept Prototypes
- Breadboard Prototypes
- Ergonomic Study Models
- Appearance / Trade Show Models
- Functional Appearance Prototypes
Project Management
- Requirements Compilation
- Functional Specification Development
- MS Project Development
- Production Cost Estimation
- FMEA, Design Reviews
- Resource Management
- Regulatory Requirements and Documentation
- Testing Plans
Manufacturing Coordination
- Manufacturer Qualification
- Plant Audits
- Manufacturer Quoting
- Program Management
- Quality Control Documentation
- Asian and Domestic Sourcing