Articles Written by Professional Design Partners

The following articles were written by Professional Design Partners, and provide a glimpse into our development philosophy and expertise:

• Communication in Project Management - The primary focuses of customer communication are to manage customer expectations, and prevent divergence of the project results from customer expectations. Maintaining a structured and proactive, yet unobtrusive communication approach with the customer and the development team will make it much more likely you will achieve the development goals and schedule while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM) - The term 'design for manufacturability' (DFM) gets a lot of play in development circles. So what exactly is DFM? This article contains a checklist of items that should be reviewed throughout the development cycle and prior to releasing a product to manufacturing.
• Test Fixture Challenge - How do you create "lightning in a box"? Awareness of customer requirements and a simple approach to circuit, firmware and mechanical design produces a creative approach to test fixture design with stellar results.
• The Importance of Coding Standards for Software Development - A coding standard specifies how programmers should create and document their work. This allows programmers to more easily share code, and the ideas expressed within the code and comments, between each other. It also eases future maintenance by making the code easier to understand and safely modify. This article discusses the creation of a coding standard.