From Idea to FINISH.
The Art of Electronics
The rate of entrepreneurship in Canada has dramatically increased over the past few years, the continuous support for entrepreneurs has created an atmosphere that greatly promotes and incentives innovation. The Idea to Finish Program presented by Petrel College of technology in collaboration with Circuit Plus Inc and International Federation of Inventors Association (IFIA) aims to expand the knowledge of current junior entrepreneurs in the field of electronics products and to provide a theoretical and practical overview of the stages involved in the development of a product from ideation to commercialization.
PETREL COLLEGE
OF TECHNOLOGY
The Program
Our “From Idea to Finish” program is designed to transfer in-depth knowledge from industrial experts and successful former entrepreneurs and today’s successful business leaders in the area of Electronic Device Manufacturing in order to teach you the best practices of today’s industry and how to avoid common technical and business pitfalls that startups may encounter in their early stages.
This six (6) months training program in Product Development, is designed to discuss the obstacles in the process of delivering an Electronic (Electro-mechanical) deivce to the market and work with the students from the initial stages of performing market research toward deloping a working prototype. Therefore, this program is a must have triaining for Engineering Entreprenures with startup ideas who would like to take the quickest path toward delivering their prototype to the market.
Launch Your Idea
Discussing what matters.
The path to entrepreneurship is one riddled with challenges, difficulties and confusion. A successful entrepreneur is one who has a fundamental understanding of the flow of the development of an idea into a prototype, this understanding can either be obtained through a series of trials and errors, which may be considered one of the main reasons why so many startups fail, or can be obtained through a transfer of knowledge from experienced individuals who have once completed those steps. Petrel College of Technology and Circuit Plus Inc. have joined to address this through an “Idea to Finish” program as a bridge addressing this experience gap and improve the success rate of startup companies in the field of consumer electronics. We are celebrating the kick-off event of this accelerator program through a Complimentary Panel discussion with subject matter experts to hear their perspectives of a successful accelerator program.
Idea to Finish - The Art of Electronics Panel Discussion
Attending Organizations:
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Ontario Society of Professional Engineers
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International Federation of Inventors Association - Ontario Chapter
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Ontario Chapter
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Petrel College of Technology
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Circuit Plus Inc.
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6:00 PM TO 8:00 PM
Room 1101 - Sandford Fleming Building
10 King's College Rd
Toronto, Ontario
Module Breakdown
In this module a mature electronic product existing in the market will be analyzed backward; from the end of warrantee term to initial idea. This product will be disassembled and investigated step-by-step so that the attendees will learn to ask critical questions in each step of design such as why and how constraints and features were set or how quality affects the initial design and speculates about how the initial design was possibly modified to become the product that is successfully sold in the market.
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Packaging and its effect in product performance
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Warrantee period and what affects it
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Manual instruction and lessons learned there.
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Logos and signs related to safety and compliance of product and why they are needed
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Logos and signs regarding quality of the product and what they are meaning
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User interface and its constraints
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Enclosure specifications and its functionality.
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Maintainability of product
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Mechanical assembly and lessons learned
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PCB review and its overall design
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Recognition of the major blocks like Inputs/outputs ,power supply , processing unit, parts and assembly lessons
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Review of schematics and understand the device functionality concepts.
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Capture design input for the product.
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Understand the cost and marketing approach
Module 1 - How it is Made?
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