Product Development Assessment Services
Align a Clear Technology Design Path with Your Electronics Product Roadmap
Our assessment services seek to align your strategic vision with a clear technology design path to achieve your product development goals effectively and efficiently. The product development assessment deliverables we provide include effective communication at both the engineering and executive level. This allows your company’s marketing and business goals to align with the engineering effort early and throughout the development project.
- Project Planning
- Obsolescence Mitigation
- Product Definition
- Electronics System Architecture
- Concept Development / ID / UX
- Proof Of Concept
Product Assesment Tasks
- Documentation & Clarification of Requirements
- A Clear Statement of Work to Meet Project Goals
- Artistic ID Concept Sketches
- UX Concept Graphics & Wire Frames
- GUI Concept Prototyping
- Industrial Design Concept Drawings
- Professional CAD with an Eye on Manufacturability
- Mapping to Appropriate Technology Solutions
- Rough Order of Magnitude (RoM) Electronic Assembly Cost Estimates
- Root Cause Analysis of Existing Issues
- Turn-Key Engineering Test Support & Compliance
- Support for Risk Analysis FMEA Efforts
- Electronics Component Supply Chain & Obsolescence Analysis
- Support for Electronic Component Life Cycle
- Production Supplier Recommendations & Evaluations
- Production Test Planning
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Electronic Systems Architecture Development
Why Choose DE Design Works?
Integrated Engineering for Real-World Products
Modern electronic products require tightly coordinated hardware, firmware, and connectivity decisions. Misalignment across disciplines introduces risk, rework, and delays. DE Design Works brings these capabilities together, enabling system-level thinking from the start.
Senior Engineering Expertise Based in the US
Our engineers bring deep experience across industrial, medical, and military environments. We design with compliance, reliability, and long-term lifecycle considerations in mind, ensuring solutions perform beyond the prototype stage. Our entire team is based in the United States.
A Risk-Reduction Mindset
We focus on architecture, verification, and disciplined execution to identify and manage risk early. This approach helps teams avoid surprises later in development and supports confident decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
Adaptive Partnership
DE works seamlessly with internal teams to fill gaps in specialized engineering technology. We support full product development, platform modernization, new technology integration, troubleshooting, and obsolescence management—tailored to each client’s needs and development stage.
Predictable Execution
Our proven processes emphasize clarity, accountability, and dependable outcomes. Clients rely on DE for steady execution that keeps complex electronic product development moving forward.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The goal of the Assessment phase is reducing risks and as much uncertainty as possible. Our collaborative Design Inputs process invariably gets our customers thinking deeper about details they had not considered. These details lead to key technology and process decisions early to enable a clearer, more efficient path to product success throughout the remainder of the project. Also, it’s a great way to build the relationship between the customer and DE team!
For large and medium sized projects, it will be a few collaborative working sessions to iron out our Design Inputs documentation. This helps clarify requirements documentation and Work Breakdown Structures to ensure all project goals are well-defined. When needed, creation of a POC device from eval kits to de-risk key project goals. Also, concept sketches, UX wireframes, GUI design screens, and perhaps some CAD design to help to map out the heavy lifting for the ensuing design phases.
It can be a bit perilous to discuss cost without knowing the complexity and scope of a project but we’re game to help! – Our Assessments usually represent less than 10% of the total cost of a design project. Additionally, for exploratory new products or features, we may be able to accommodate a sub-$10,000 to $20,000 assessment that have no obligation to proceed to later phases if the customer (or DE) realize key goals cannot be achieved.
While understanding your product intent is essential, the Assessment phase goes beyond simply gathering and absorbing existing documents. Many of our new customers are amazed at how many details they had not considered. These revelations help our customers maintain focus throughout their product roadmap and help DE establish the most direct path for success.
The goal of the Assessment phase is reducing risks and as much uncertainty as possible. Our collaborative Design Inputs process invariably gets our customers thinking deeper about details they had not considered. These details lead to key technology and process decisions early to enable a clearer, more efficient path to product success throughout the remainder of the project. Also, it’s a great way to build the relationship between the customer and DE team!
For large and medium sized projects, it will be a few collaborative working sessions to iron out our Design Inputs documentation. This helps clarify requirements documentation and Work Breakdown Structures to ensure all project goals are well-defined. When needed, creation of a POC device from eval kits to de-risk key project goals. Also concept sketches, UX wireframes, GUI design screens, and perhaps some CAD design to help to map out the heavy lifting for the ensuing design phases.
It can be a bit perilous to discuss cost without knowing the complexity and scope of a project but we’re game to help! – Our Assessments usually represent less than 10% of the total cost of a design project. Additionally, for exploratory new products or features, we may be able to accommodate a sub-$10,000 to $20,000 assessment that have no obligation to proceed to later phases if the customer (or DE) realize key goals cannot be achieved.
While understanding your product intent is essential, the Assessment phase goes beyond simply gathering and absorbing existing documents. Many of our new customers are amazed at how many details they had not considered. These revelations help our customers maintain focus throughout their product roadmap and help DE establish the most direct path for success.
Our Process
