Let us help your firm generate non-stop innovation!
Do your products have clear design and performance advantages over your competition?
If not, most likely you find yourself competing on price, and often lowering it. Auburn University’s Industrial Design Program and the Auburn Technical Assistance Center can help you change the market dynamics and grow your business by creating innovative product designs that improve your product’s form and function, giving you that “leg up” on the competition. The program also assists businesses in product packaging, product identity, and corporate identity.
Cost Effective
• Design teams produce more than 100 preliminary concepts for your business at a fraction of the cost of conventional design firms.
Nationally Ranked Expertise
• More than 20-year track record of providing cutting edge and award winning product designs to many leading national firms such as Dell, Hitachi, GE, Eastman Plastics, NASA, Samsung Electronics.
Proven Four-Phase Process
• Design Brief - User Research - Ideation: Finds opportunities where none may have been readily apparent before.
• 3D Modeling: Enables the client to better understand the structure of the product.
• Pre-Prototype: The product concept is almost operational at this point.
• Prototype: The final innovative design prototype is developed and presented along with recommendations of materials, product development costs, tooling investments, and costs of manufacturing.
Click here for a printable pdf version of our New Product Design Brochure.
Click here to read about our work with various clients.
Click here to register for an upcoming training event.
Contact for More Information:
Mitch Emmons; 334.844.3881; emmonmb@auburn.edu
ATAC Affiliations
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