Calculator

Product: Calculator for K-12

Targeted Audience: Students and Parents

Feedback:

I think reverse engineering is the ability to take something apart, identify the problem and make an innovation to maintain loyal customers in addition to gaining new customers. The reason why it is practiced in the industry is that if the costumer has a problem with the product then the company should be able to find what is making this happen and fix it.  Forward engineering is that you fix it while you’re working on it but reverse engineering is where you go back to see what is wrong with it and make a better product. It helps keep loyal customers because they know that they can tell you the problem that they are having and it will be fixed in the new update. It also helps you get customers because they know that your product is getting better and better with each update that comes out.

            The criteria are that we had to make a calculator that kids could use from k-12, and it had to be at a reasonable price and be durable. The constraints were that it had to b environmental and that it didn’t have a really big budget. It helped me by telling me what I was looking for to make it better and it also kind of gave me a lay out on how I wanted the calculator to be built. The way it was built you wanted it to last longer that way the parents wouldn’t have to go out and buy one all the time. Well 1st I drew the product like it was made putting all the different components I saw. The next thing I did was I took it apart and saw how it worked and thought about what I could change to make it better. Then finally I drew my finished product that I wanted to turn in. I knew that it had to be durable and also had to be stylish for I can get my customers to buy it so I couldn’t think of a certain color so I made it were the customers had to design their own case for their calculator. I think this was a good idea because the company is making more money and also the costumers are happy because they can get any color or design they want. Then I made the calculator were it could be updated to more compacted math as their child got older. It could also share the screen on your calculator to your computer, smart board, and TV.

            Overall I think this was a good investment to the company. I think once this product get to the market then the company will make the money that they put into it and more. I also think that it will save parents money from having to buy there kid a new calculator every time they got into a harder math and need more functions on the calculator.