Market Analysis: Hybrid Innovation Now Lies in “Rapid Engineering”

Designing from Scratch Vs. Custom Built?

With the need for media-rich interactions and “computing anywhere”, always-connected tablets and hybrids are taking the place of laptops and desktops.Tablet-centric computing creates a completely different development landscape.
While software development has evolved code bases, accessible stacks, and other consolidated tool-chains and libraries, hardware capabilities have only recently started to make progress, with system-on-modules and single-board computers. But the majority of hardware development systems still focuses on basic chipset functionality, leading to expensive and impractical development boards, or relies on unsustainable and extensive modification of consumer devices, such as Apple’s iPad or Amazon’s Kindle Fire.

While mobile application marketplaces, such as the Apple App Store, and the Android Market experience explosive growth, tablet hardware is largely constrained to standard mainstream consumer offerings, limiting tablet integration potential in extensive new markets.

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Many companies are still sinking into significant engineering investment by designing custom tablet interfaces from scratch, but there’s a huge risk that the marketplace has completely changed by the time they deploy, and they already face an uphill battle at launch. Then on the other hand trying to customize mainstream consumer tablets like Apple’s iPad or the Samsung Galaxy is still problematic as third-party developers have little or no control of the underlying hardware or supply chain.

Solution: Imagine being able to deliver your customer a tablet solution of your own design criteria!

A solution that bears your company's logo as opposed to a standard off the shelf solution. In addition, Tablet PCs built for business, which means systems powerful enough to run full desktop applications on Microsoft® Windows® 7/8.1/10, Android or Linux, and rugged enough to be used day in and day out without failing.

Now days there are production plant that have chosen their framework to be built around the idea of “rapid engineering”. Product innovation now lies in “rapid engineering” focused on customizable tablets with accelerated development, integration and deployment based on Microsoft® Windows® 7/8.1/10 and Linux OS applications. This for sure will reduce development time and cost, while companies can capture new markets and realize faster product revenues.

This level of Flexibility and Adaptability has the following returns: 

1. Reduces development time and cost causing faster product revenues 

2. Enables rapid embedded tablet deployment into new applications

On this venue we can categorize two area of approach on customization, one that is focused on hardware configuration and the other is on personalization and patenting:

Hardware configuration : after choosing the ideal OS then you should take a delicate configuration approach as to choose right hardware for right target market. The design process includes items like: 

Choice of Operating System (the choice of Linux, Android or Windows)> Display Size (6”to 24”), LCD model (TN, IPS or RETINA), Resolution (1024x600 to 2048*1536), Touch Panel (Resistive or Capacitive), Touch Panel Quality (GP, GF, GG, OGS), CPU (Dual, Quad or Octa-core), RAM (2, 4, 8 or 16 GB ), Storage (4GB to 1 TB), Camera Front (0.3 to 5 MP), Camera Back (2 to 16 MP), Flash (Yes or No), WI-FI (a/n/g or a/b/n/g or AC), GPS GLONASS or GLONASS HP, Moblie : 3G UMTS /4G LTE, Battery Capacity , Ports (micro USB, HDM, earphone, SD slot, RS232, RJ45), ….

Personalization and patenting: focuses on Final manufacturing and finishing and encompass items like Customized IDs for existing Tablet designs, Print or laser logo on the back of the tablets, Your own boot image or boot animation, Your own wall paper, Packaging box with your own customized design, Or have the tablet only show and run your own multiple apps on the home page, etc. 

Market Development by Rapid Engineering Process

Just as tablets have made their way into the consumer and enterprise markets, they also have extensive potential uses in a wide range of customized, embedded devices. Advertising platforms, retail engagement interfaces, information kiosks, factory automation, transportation systems, war fighter information systems, medical devices and many others can all be transformed by tablet technology. But many of these new markets require hardware customization for tablets to be effective.

Consumer tablets are driving huge interest and demand globally for customized touch solutions in the business arena. Look for those who are organized to push the limits further!

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