Mission

Mission

• Design, develop, and license new products that provide utility and efficiency to their users.
• Provide engineering design services to enable customers’ design efforts.
• Promote the top-down approach to engineering design.
• Enjoy creating.

Business Philosophy

• » Use the top-down engineering design approach to solve problems.
  • View the system as a whole.
  • Strive for complete understanding of how system components work together to comprise a functioning system.
  • Focus on What problem to solve rather than How to solve a problem, particularly in the early phases of a project.
• » Determine the customer’s real needs.
  • Significant early conversations.
  • Hands-on observations.
  • Questions that probe and examine the extremes.
• » Show that an accurate requirements definition and a clear direction save time and money in the long run.
  • Never accept “we don’t have time” as an excuse to shortcut requirements definition.
  • In the long run, inaccurate requirements lead to products that do not fulfill user needs.
• » Prototype simple, early, and often.
  • Understand what solutions have merit and what solutions do not.
  • Observe system behavior that cannot be conceived without hands-on experience.
• » Made in USA.
  • Products that license TDE patents will be made in USA.
  • Components used to make products that license TDE patents will be domesitcally sources to the greatest extent possible.

Please contact TDE  for additional information.