Proving New Technology Works in Products: The 8-Point Assessment Checklist

Key Tech is often visited by enthusiastic and clever innovators demonstrating a brand new technology, hopeful that it could make it into a product. In this whitepaper, Key Tech explains how they’ve never seen a perfect technology; even the best has its limitations and flaws.

At the first meeting with Key Tech, the new technology is usually embodied in a contraption referred to as the “Frankenstein Prototype”. The first task is to tease out the flaws in the new technologies in order to understand what it will take to get rid of them.

In this whitepaper, Key Tech offers a quick checklist and some examples to illustrate the types of flaws innovators and inventors can look for before planning development:

• Performance: Does it work?
• Performance at the Limits: Does it work outside the best case scenario?
• Sensitivity: How sensitive is it to changing conditions?
• Repeatability: Does it work the same way every time?
• Reliability: Will it last?
• Scalability: Will it work in a product?
• Practicality: Can it work with fewer features?
• Interfering Claptrap: Can it work with added features?

Click through to access the full whitepaper here.