One of the things that people can overlook when designing a product is how you’re going to manufacture it. It is all well and good to design a beautiful looking product, but if that product can’t then be manufactured on an industrial scale, the design makes little financial sense. This is why it is essential that product designers are also trained in manufacturing processes and able to work closely with professional manufacturers.

The easiest way to design for mass-scale manufacturing is to break the product down into composite components. This allows parts which are easier to produce individually to be manufactured individually, for later assembly; also known as assembly line manufacturing.