Product: SANYO TV

Targeted Audience: Senior Citizens

Feedback:

 Reverse engineering to me means to disassemble and analyze in detail a product or device to discover the concepts involved in manufacture usually in order to produce something similar but better. This type of engineering is practice in the industry because it’s a better an easier way to come up and brainstorm ideas to better the product and make it easier and better for the consumer to use. For industries using forward engineering I think are wasting time as far as coming up with better products. The reason why is why build the product and wait on customers’ feedback when you all ready know what the product looks like so why not use reverse engineering so you can start adding on and coming up with ideas and brainstorming how you can make the product better. Using reverse engineering helps you keep loyal customers and gain new customers because while you came out with a new and improved product you’re already making a better product the customers want and know that the next new and improved product is coming soon so you’ll eventually wind up drawing new customers.  

The criteria of the product are it must be an energy star product; the ergonomics must accommodate health conditions of consumer and must be large enough for poor vision. Also the design must accommodate the hearing-impaired. The constraints of the project are that the maximum retail price has to be $299.99, product is available in three colors also the use of economical components to manufacture new product. The criteria assisted me with developing new products by letting me know how much I was able to purchase and what needed to be added. For this product the key components that required an upgrade was the weight of the product the size of the screen the video cords and other important factors. The processes I practice for this project was taking the project apart using reverse engineering and comparing the old television to the modern television.  But instead of adding all the parts that the new and improve television had, I added the parts that were best fit to improve the old television for senior citizens.

 My personal opinion about the outcome of this new and improve product is positively strong. The reason why is because I had improve the TV to the senior citizens needs in many ways. Such as making it lighter in weight wise, video input, HDMI input and a DVD built in on the side. That way when the senior citizens have company and their company wants to watch a movie or hook up a game to the TV, it’s capable for the action to be done.