Product Development
Farm delivers comprehensive services for all stages of product development. We create successful products using a proven process to infuse technological innovation with user needs and market opportunities.
Farm's experienced teams of researchers, designers and engineers collaborate through every aspect of a development program, leveraging the specific creative teamwork required to solve our clients' complex needs.
Our approach is simple: comprehensive development services, proven process, diverse teams of professionals combined with over thirty years of experience produces success for our clients.
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Product Development Services
Product Development Services
Development Specifications
- Product requirements definition
- Hazard analysis assessment and mitigation planning
- User interface specification
- Subsystem specification
- Requirements tracing
System Architecture
- System critical performance analysis
- Performance specifications
- Component selection
- Cost analysis
Industrial Design
- Innovation brainstorms
- Visual identity
- Human factors and ergonomic design
- Color strategy
- Architecture definition
- Design for material and processes
- Model development
Interaction Design
- Menu structure and navigation development
- Icon creation
- Graphic interface design
- Interaction prototyping
User Testing
Methods
- Product-environment simulation
- Preference testing
- Ergonomic assessment
- Simulated use testing
- Focus groups
- Web based testing
- Qualitative and quantitative methods
Outputs of User Testing:
- Design direction verification
- Usability verification
- Feature/cost confirmation
Engineering
Mechanical
- Mechanism development
- Component, part design and engineering
- Packaging and enclosure design
- Design for manufacturing and assembly
- Reliability engineering
- CAD surface and solid modeling using Pro/ENGINEER and SolidWorks
- Engineering analysis (FEA/thermal/shock & vibration, etc.)
- Rapid prototyping
- Production documentation
Electrical
- Analog
- Digital
- Communications
- Signal processing
- ASIC
- Power systems
- Sensors and signal conditioning
- Closed loop control
- Design for EMI/RFI compliance
Software
- Embedded systems
- Real time operating systems
- Multi-tasking functionality
- Algorithms
- C/C++
- Machine language
- Protocols
- Multiple CPUs
- Diagnostics
Functional Testing
- Performance
- Formal verification
- Compliance to standards
- Transit
- Reliability
- Life
Production Support
- Production documentation
- International vendor selection
- Incoming inspection documentation
- Test procedures
- Test equipment and fixtures
- Assembly procedures and work instructions
Regulatory Compliance
- Creation and maintenance of Design History Files (DHF) and Device Master Records (DMR)
- Coordination and review of solutions with notified bodies and testing labs
- Verification testing to essential requirements and medical safety standards
- Compliance to design control requirements
- FMEA
