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product realization

Launching a Product? She Wrote the Book On It

in *NEWS, Mechanical Engineering

At last, after all the long, painful hours of toil and trial—the ideation, the research, the design, the assembly, the testing—you have in your hands a prototype of your product. And it works! Now it’s a simple matter of finding a factory to replicate this gizmo, and then tallying the sales.

Tagged: Anna Thornton, Build Lab, EPIC, Manufacturing, product realization

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