Here’s an interesting article on Engineering Design Challenges from Product Design and Development.
I agree. Controlling costs has risen in importance for our product development customers. Probably a function of the growth of global sourcing solutions.



It’s not clear to me if “controlling costs” means the BOM cost of the product being designed, the costs associated with product dev, or both.
In An Engineer’s Greatest Design Challenges: Part 2, 3D printing looks like a game changer.