Optimizing and Compromising Lead to Winning Design

摘要

Unless your last name is da Vinci, it's unusual for an engineer to sign his work. That's especially true when the engineers are from a service provider hired to help develop a product. "Customers typically like to keep us a secret," says Tim Smith, vice president of Technical Operations at Altair ProductDesign. That wasn't the case when the company was hired by Jake Peters, the general manager of DECKED, to help develop a truck bed storage system for the startup company. "If you look at the bottom of the drawer in the storage system, they actually had the signatures of the people from Altair who worked on the product and the Altair logo," says Cliff Boggs, vice president of Business Development for Altair ProductDesign. "It was very refreshing to have a customer acknowledge us in such a permanent way by having that molded into the bottom of the drawer," Smith says.