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b'Paul Sagar is the Vice President of Product Management for the CREO software line at PTC.\\xa0Paul started as a design engineer, then spent the last 25 years building CAD software for PTC to best match the needs of hardware design teams.\\xa0Today Paul is going to share some valuable knowledge for inventors, startups, and small manufacturers on the latest trends in new product development for hardware startups, including best practices in composite materials, the electrification of products, and additive manufacturing for first manufacturing runs.\\nToday you will hear us talk about:\\n\\nComposite design.\\xa0Composite materials in the design.\\xa0This is stuff from aerospace and racing.\\n\\nMore consumer product brands are starting to incorporate high-cost and high-quality composite materials into a relatively simple product\\n\\nComposites can allow you more design flexibility while ensuring strength and quality with lightweight properties.\\n\\nComposites can lead to more sustainability in hardware product design.\\n\\nComposites have been historically very expensive to buy and manufacture; however, it is becoming more accessible.\\n\\nLow-volume production capital cost is low, so you can focus on quality at low volume for a new product startup brand.\\n\\nElectrification of everything is already happening.\\n\\nFundamentally design is needing to incorporate more electronics and more electrification.\\n\\nElectronics need to collaborate more with mechanical engineering than ever before.\\xa0Collaboration more than linear design.\\n\\nProduction design, especially in additive manufacturing, is evolving extremely quickly.\\n\\nAdditive manufacturing used to just be for rapid prototyping, but now additive manufacturing is being used for final part design, especially for first manufacturing runs.\\n\\nShort-run additive manufacturing is far cheaper in regards to up-front capital costs (tooling costs).\\n\\nThere are some advantages to what you can actually design with additive manufacturing.\\n\\nAdditive manufacturing gets you to production faster.\\n\\nSpeed, quality, up front cost reduction, and increased design options.\\n\\n\\nEPISODE LINKS:\\nPaul Sagar Links:\\nLinkedIn | Creo | PTC | OnShape\\n\\nThe Product Startup Podcast Links:\\nhttps://www.ProductStartup.com/\\nInstagram | LinkedIn | Facebook Page | Facebook Group | Pinterest | Twitter | YouTube\\n\\nMako Design Links:\\nhttps://www.makodesign.com/\\nYouTube | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter\\n\\nKevin Mako Links:\\nInstagram | LinkedIn | Quora | Facebook | Twitter\\n\\nPartner: PTC\\u2019s best-in-class software solutions Onshape: The only cloud-native product development platform that delivers full-featured computer-aided design (CAD), integrated product data management (PDM) and enterprise analytics in a single system, and Creo: 3D CAD solution that provides designers with the most innovative tools to build better products faster, such as generative design, additive manufacturing, real-time simulation, IIoT, and augmented reality.\\n\\nProducer: MAKO Design + Invent is the original firm providing world-class consumer product development services tailored to startups, small manufacturers, and inventors. Simply put, we are the leading one-stop-shop for developing your physical product from idea to store shelves, all in a high-quality, cost-effective, and timely manner. We operate as one powerhouse 30-person product design team spread across 4 offices to serve you (Austin, Miami, San Francisco, & Toronto). We have full-stack in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, patent referral, prototyping, and manufacturing services. To assist our startup and inventor clients, in addition to above, we help with business strategy, product strategy, marketing, and sales/distribution for all consumer product categories.'