The push for rapid innovation is putting pressure on research and development teams. However, as the speed of innovation accelerates, R&D timelines are shrinking, creating a gap where reliability testing cannot keep pace with design speed. These unverified technologies stall at manufacturing, creating a bottleneck effect. Mechanical failures in manufacturing, which 41% of manufacturing companies…
Kablooe Design CEO Tom KraMer taps veteran designer Fred Sklenar to steer firm
Twin Cities–based medical-device design firm Kablooe Design will get its first new chief executive in 34 years this summer. Founder Tom KraMer will step aside on August 17, and move into a strategic-account role. His successor, Fred Sklenar, is a 37-year product-development veteran who joined Kablooe after running his own consultancy and teaching design-for-manufacturing courses.…