Insights.
What products cost, how they get made, and what we have learned along the way.
When should a company hire an external industrial design agency, and when not?
An honest decision framework from a studio that has an obvious interest in the answer, including the situations where we tell people to keep the work inside.
Robrecht Lambrechts
How to prepare a product for injection moulding
The rules we apply to every moulded part before a tool is quoted, and the three mistakes we see most often in CAD that arrives from elsewhere.
Kasper De Backer
Designing in Europe, manufacturing in China: how we run it from Leuven and Shanghai
Most product companies in Europe will produce something in Asia at some point. The ones that do it well treat the factory as part of the design team, not as a file recipient. This is how that works in practice, and when China is the wrong answer.
Robrecht Lambrechts
From functional prototype to mass production: what still has to happen
A working prototype feels like the finish line. It is roughly the halfway point. Here are the twelve things between a prototype and a product you can ship, in the order they usually bite.
Kasper De Backer
How much does industrial product development cost?
A phase-by-phase look at what drives the budget, with the ranges we quote after ten years and more than 110 launched products.
Robrecht Lambrechts