Ken Rother is an entrepreneur who has built and exited two successful tech/media startups. His experience is centered in operations, sales, product management, and technology. He is director of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, which runs several hardware accelerator programs. For 10 years, Mr. Rother was the managing director of eLab, an accelerator program for Cornell student startups, and he continues to be a visiting Lecturer of Management at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Course Overview
After you've created a low-volume production run of your product, you are ready to plan for high-volume production. In this course, you will optimize materials costs through increased volume and by designing a product for ease of fabrication. You will reduce the complexity of assembly and product variability to lower assembly costs. You will implement a set of best practices called Design for X, which will help you ensure efficient and inexpensive manufacturing that results in a high-quality physical product. At the end of the course, you will have the tools to design for high-volume production.
You are required to have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience before taking this course:
- Building and Validating Prototypes
- Developing Product Specifications
- Launching Small-Scale Production
Key Course Takeaways
- Design for ease of part fabrication
- Design for ease of product assembly
- Build testing capability into product design and manufacture processes
- Design for post-sale maintenance and support
- Design for installation and setup
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Course Length
2 weeks
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3 to 5 hours of study per week
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100% online, instructor-led
Course Author
Visiting Lecturer, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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- Entrepreneurs
- Product managers
- Designers
- Usability experts
- Software engineers
- Consultants
- Manufacturers
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