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A Day in the Life of a Manufacturing Engineer
Operators, Operations, & Opportunities There鈥檚 a Beatles song called 鈥淎 Day in the Life鈥 that closes the album Sgt. Pepper鈥檚 Lonely Hearts Club Band. At the end of this song, an E chord is struck and held onto for 45-seconds or so giving the impression that the song never really ends. I love the…
Read MoreWhat is Design Thinking?
The Latest ID Label for the Same ID Story Some would say that making a product that looks good is the only duty of an Industrial Designer. This couldn鈥檛 be further from the truth! Fundamentally, the role of industrial design (ID), is to grasp the entire design process as it relates to the user and…
Read More5 Benchmarking Tips For Product Design Inspiration
Where does an idea come from? Do ideas spring into the mind fully formed? Of course not! Ideas rarely start out beautiful鈥 they need to be collected, nurtured, and built upon. Ideas are inspired (stolen) from something else that we鈥檝e seen, heard, or experienced. Even the man who invented the wheel probably saw a…
Read MoreJune Offsite 2017
Finding Our Sweet Spot On June 16th, the DISHER team set aside their typical work day to deliberately focus on the fundamentals. Members from every team and every office congregated at the HRM Gateway Center for a company-wide offsite. For seasoned team members, the day wasn鈥檛 a surprise. It was the continuation of a biannual…
Read MoreNeoCon 2017
From An Engineer鈥檚 Perspective For any engineer that works in and for the furniture industry, NeoCon is a must see. NeoCon is one of the largest trade shows featuring workplace furniture and the industries that support it such as seating, textiles, technology, and flooring to name just a few. A dozen folks from DISHER took…
Read MoreAll I Got for My 5th Anniversary was a Rock
Building a Culture That Thrives鈩 I just completed five years at DISHER. This milestone was recognized and celebrated at an all-company meeting a few weeks ago where I was given a rock. Yes, you read that correctly. They gave me a ROCK. And you know what? I was thrilled. Why? If you look closely, it…
Read MoreEffective Prototype Development
Don鈥檛 Waste Precious Resources During the space race of the 1960鈥檚, as the legend goes, NASA engineers encountered a challenge. Astronauts needed to take notes in space but typical ballpoint pens did not function in a Zero-G environment. NASA funneled millions of taxpayer dollars into developing a pen that could write upside-down in space…
Read MoreTips to Overcoming Decision-Making Barriers
Don鈥檛 Settle for Second Best After a design choice has been made, have you ever had the sinking feeling that you inadvertently settled for second best? The process can be frustrating. It always seems to take more time to piece together a complete and total list of boundary conditions and evaluate them properly before making…
Read MoreA Strong Culture Brings Out the Best
A Strong Culture Brings Out the Best for the person, company, and customer Many companies are enamored with the word culture yet few fully understand what it is.聽 Some believe culture is employee volunteerism. Others believe it鈥檚 about team meetings and company offsites.聽 While others think coffee bars, exercise classes, and generous amounts of time-off…
Read MoreDISHER Lunch & Learns
The Perfect Way to Connect & Develop Teams How many of you bring your lunch to work, warm it up in the company microwave, and head back to your desk to keep working because you have so much to accomplish? Connecting with colleagues is not a high priority when our calendars are double and triple…
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