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 CDA Preliminary Product Definition

 


Product Technology & Market Research
CDA research studies provide an objective assessment of markets or technologies from which we develop appropriate strategies to help your company develop competitive products. Our confidential research has involved the following:
  • Competitive technologies and products
  • Technology trends and acceptance
  • Competing patents and other barriers to market entry

Primary product and disposable market potential

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Product Development Strategy
CDA will help you with creative R&D strategy to achieve measurable goals with the following activities:
  • Evaluate your objectives with careful consideration of projects, resources, costs and current markets.
  • Develop product specifications based on current market needs.
  • Research competition and markets to help develop future strategies for marketing, R&D and manufacturing.

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Product Feasibility Analysis & Planning
CDA will work with you to improve your R&D efficiency by performing any or all of the following analyses:
  • Technical and economic product feasibility relative to market needs.
  • Manufacturing design to cost or cost reduction.
  • Investigate applications to new markets.

We will also build on your objectives, goals, strategies, along to aid you in R&D project planning:

  • Planning for accelerated R&D.

Help with creative strategic marketing and manufacturing plans

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Product Concept Demonstration
CDA can often demonstrate concepts with standard optics and a minimum of fabrication.
  • Analyze and research concept to determine economic feasibility
  • Functional proof of concepts before designing and building prototype
  • Determination of prototype design parameters needed for market

 

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Product Prototype Development
CDA works to help you develop new products on a confidential basis. We provide innovative solutions to improve existing systems or to implement new concepts. Our creative development services typically include the following functions:
  • Creative application of optical technology using computer design optimization for UV, visible, and IR systems.
  • Prototype design and development.
  • Fabrication and testing of prototypes.
  • Verification of cost for production.

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Typical Clients Served
The following are typical product areas in which our services have and are being used:
  • Medical 
  • Aerospace
  • Imaging
  • Educational
  • Entertainment
  • Lighting
  • Surveillance
  • Computer
  • Measurements
  • Manufacturing
  • Research Lab
  • Toys

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Typical Project Examples
Research
  • Microfilm systems.
  • Fiber optic lighting systems.
  • Laser surgery systems.
  • Ink jet technology.
  • Photo plotters.
  • Semiconductor processing.
  • Test equipment.
  • Viewers for disabled.
  • Projectors for manufacturing and quality control.
  • Market study for importing ophthalmic lenses.
  • Periscope for remotely viewing turbine blades in a cogeneration facility.
  • Optical system for fluorescence imaging for cancer detection.
  • Fiber optic pressure sensing.
  • Video probe for subsurface undersea exploration.
  • Technology for new LED development
  • IR vision for fire fighters
  • New device to optimize remaining sight of patients with macular degeneration
  • New optical sensors for toxic material detection

Feasibility Analysis

  • Surveillance systems.
  • Fiber optics displacement encoder.
  • IR safety systems for machines.
  • Memory device to put a GByte of information on a smart card.
  • IR sensor for determining water in crude oil
  • Analysis of laser surgery fiber optics for heart application
  • Optical sensing system for sub micron feature inspection
  • Fiber optic system for PC data transmission
  • Fiber optic system for monitoring high pressure containers
  • Improvement of medical florescent detection device

Concept Demonstration

  • Toy stereo viewer.
  • Toy light show.
  • Eye analysis system for drug testing .
  • Keratometer measuring system .
  • Special effect projection equipment for motion picture application.
  • IR process control .
  • Optical rangefinder.
  • Optical interface for fiber optics to video camera.
  • IR edge detector for printers.
  • Low cost portable video phase contrast microscope for veterinary practice.
  • Compact direct 3D viewer for surgical application.
  • Precision projectors for manufacturing and quality control.
  • Optical system for detection of fluorescence from a laser-excited biological sample.
  • Automatic reader for very small particle identification and classification.
  • Fiber optics sensor system for monitoring optical coatings.
  • Star locator teaching tool for astronomy.
  • Periscope for remotely viewing turbine blades in a cogeneration facility.
  • Optical system for fluorescence imaging used for cancer detection.
  • Fertility microscope for personal use
  • Eye device for implant location
  • Cooling for electronic LED sign.

R&D Strategy Development

  • Photo plotting system comparison for importer.
  • Text and graphics digitizer.
  • Microfilm system standard change.
  • R&D strategies related to product development programs.
  • Marketing strategy for new optical materials and new lens arrays.
  • Strategy for development of a new urology instrument.
  • Marketing research and strategies for distributing ophthalmic lenses.
  • Automatic reader for very small particle identification and classification.
  • Precision projectors for manufacturing and quality control.
  • Market study for importing ophthalmic lenses.
  • Optical system for detection of fluorescence from a laser-excited biological sample.
  • Market study for importing ophthalmic lenses
  • Optical system for fluorescence imaging used for cancer detection
  • Device development for macular degenration

Project Planning

  • Laser company start-up
  • Text and graphics digitizer
  • Semiconductor manufacturing equipment
  • LED sign optics and mechanical
  • Fiber optic medical devices

 Prototype Development

  • White blood cell counter optical and mechanical system development for high speed operation.
  • Advanced multi-sensory robotic and effector.
  • Semi-automated optical and acoustic crack detection system for aircraft inspection.
  • Elliptical reflector IR heating system for high speed drying operation.
  • Eye analysis system for drug testing.
  • Microfilm camera for high speed document recording.
  • Optic viewing (10x) system for film images.
  • Portable keratometer measuring system for eyes.
  • IR (10 micron) dual receiver.
  • Blood oxygen sensor.
  • Fiber optic viewing system for truck blind spots.
  • Alignment projection viewer for manufacturing.
  • Large field alignment telescope.
  • High speed electronic document recording camera and lighting system.
  • Fiber optic displacement (2-inch) sensor.
  • Large scale 3X and 5X comparator projector system.
  • Special effect projection equipment for motion picture application.
  • Optical and mechanical system development for white blood cell counter..
  • Optical system for a Laser light show.
  • Multi-sensory robotic hand with 3-D vision .
  • Automated optical and acoustic crack inspection system for aircraft turbine wheels.
  • Anamorphic video camera lens system.
  • Special effects projector for motion picture production.
  • Elliptical reflector lR  heating system for high speed curing operation.
  • Microfilm and electronic cameras for high-speed document recording.
  • IR receivers and sensors. 
  • Fiber optic periscope viewing system for trucks.
  • Special large telescope for machine alignment.
  • Rangefinder prototype.
  • Video system for illuminating and recording eye surgery procedures.
  • Video microscope for welding and quality control.
  • Large ( 3x and 5x)  comparator projectors for rolling mill alignment.
  • Portable 2.5X field comparators for rolling mill application.
  • Precision machining center for video disk stamper production.
  • High temperature displacement sensor with remote fiber optic output.
  • Fiber optics-to-camera interface optics.
  • Precision projectors for manufacturing and quality control.
  • Precision punch for templates used in precision measurement projectors.
  • Special periscope for remotely inspecting turbine blades in a cogeneration facility.
  • Optical system for detection of fluorescence from a laser-excited biological sample.
  • Optical system for cancer detection using fluorescence imaging.  
  • Automatic reader for very small particle identification and classification.
  • Development of a polarized laser based medical diagnostic analysis system
  • Optics for hematology and amino analysis systems for rapid analysis
  • Developed illumination system for fluorescent toxic element sensor
  • LED sign optics and cooling
  • Development of optics for dental teeth whitening system
  • Optical fluorescence glucose sensor and readout system

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Curt Deckert Associates, Inc.
Optical Product Development
18061 Darmel Place
Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA.
Tel:  (714) 639-0746, (800) 394-0748
Fax: (714) 639-0746
E-mail: curt@cdeckert.com
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