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Project
Product Design and Production
Application
Portable Reminder Device
Customer Need
There are situations relating to a person’s job that depend on certain tasks, a repetitive or single event, to occur on time. As people’s jobs take on more and more, remembering a multitude of tasks and specific times becomes more difficult. A very simple reminder device was requested that could be customized with special menu options for specific jobs. This is not a PDA and the targeted user does not need be technology driven. Also, cost must be low to make this a viable option for every user.
AVID's Solution
AVID took the customer concept and created the complete product design. This includes functional and physical implementation. AVID performed all of the electrical, mechanical and firmware design, as well as created a PC application and a web application to support upgrades and custom configurations. A touch screen provided a simple user interface. A USB port was used for battery charging and downloads from the PC. We set up the production house and provided all of the manufacturing engineering support required for ramping up the product to full production.
Value Added or Technologies Applied
- Design Architecture, Component Selection, Battery and Touch Screen
- Hardware, Firmware and Mechanical Design
- PC Application / Web Application Development
- Prototype and Validation
- Manufacturing Engineering Support; Plastic Part Tooling, Production Test, AVL Management, Assembly, Process Review and Support
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