Inertia Engineering + Design
34 Kern Rd # 3 M3B 1T1 Toronto, ON, Canada

It's a HUGE day for the Inertia team today! We are honoured and thrilled to rank #1 on the list of 2021 Best Workplaces In Canada with <50 employees. We are deeply thankful to our amazingly talented team of innovators, operators, designers, engineers and creatives for making great things happen! Congratulations to everyone who made the list this year and to those who share our belief that when it comes down to it, it’s always the people who create great experiences and great places to work. Thank you also to Great Place to Work Canada for a great initiative. https://lnkd.in/g4FsM3v

We're growing and searching for talented mech/mechatronic/manufacturing engineers with new product design and launch experience. Must have passion and perseverance for all aspects of new product design, engineering and manufacturing. Come grow with us! Learn more and apply here: https://inertia-engineering.breezy.hr/ #productdesign #newproductdevelopment #engineeringthefuture #engineeringexcellence #designexcellence #engineeringjobs #productdevelopment #mechanicalengineering #engineeringdesign #manufacturingengineering

Choosing a product development (PD) agency to help bring your product to market is a high stakes decision that should be made with the utmost care. The bottom line is who you decide to work with will massively influence the outcome in your journey to bring a product to market. Something we hear often from prospects that are shopping for a product development partner is how each PD agency has their own process, expertise and approach to working with customers and developing pr...oducts which makes their decision on who to work with more difficult. In the interest of making the decision a little less stressful for those looking for product development help, we’ve put together 21 questions you can ask each agency you meet with, to help you evaluate them across a common set of criteria. Read More: https://inertiaengineering.com/21-questions-to-ask-when-hi/ #productdevelopment #hardware #manufacturing #hardwaredevelopment #productdesign #industrialdesign #engineering #mechanicalengineering #startup #innovation #customerexperience #userexperience #qualitycontrol

In the 17 years since Inertia was founded, we've had a front row seat in experiencing just how challenging bringing a product to market can be. In this blog post, we’ve included 5 places where folks typically get stuck, along with some solutions that can be applied to help them get unstuck. Read more: https://inertiaengineering.com/5-reasons-physical-product-/ ... #productdesign #innovation #engineering #manufacturing #productdevelopment #hardware #designfirm

What. a. year. Challenge, change, uncertainty, hope and resilience are words that come to mind. However as we look back, the team at Inertia also feels very grateful for the opportunities that have presented themselves alongside all the challenges. Please keep looking out for one another over the coming months and have a safe and happy holidays. Check out our year in review by following the link below. If you'd like to continue receiving updates, kindly click on the subscribe... button within our newsletter. https://bit.ly/3nAKpGL #productdesign #productdevelopment #prototyping #innovation #leadership #engineering #kudos #covid #roboticsengineering #artificialntelligence #like #change #opportunities #grateful

For start-ups developing hardware and IoT products the challenges they face are very different from start-ups developing pure software products. Longer development cycles, complex manufacturing processes, as well as heavy costs associated with fixing design and manufacturing errors are all difficult parts of the hardware development journey. These are just a few examples why mentorship and professional guidance from folks who have been through the process can often be a g...ame changer. We came across this article by StartupBlink which offers some really great guidance for hardware and IoT startups looking to get started on solid footing. https://inertiaengineering.com/bookmarked-interesting-find/ #manufacturing #hardware #design #iot #innovation #startups #engineering #bestpractices

2020 was a year of never-ending challenges. By all measures, 2021 will offer up more of the same. One silver lining from this time in our history is seeing how necessity can push us to collectively speed up our rate of innovation. This has been proven by how quickly we've developed vaccines. However, once we get to the other side of the pandemic (whatever shape that may take), there are other long standing issues, desperately in need of ongoing and accelerated innovation. O...verpopulation, resource scarcity and climate change are amongst the greatest challenges of our time. With a predicted global population of 9.8 billion by 2050, we’re in a rush to figure out how to feed a much larger population. As a result, the agricultural sector is another example where urgent need is accelerating the rate of innovation. One of many ag-tech innovation stories unfolding in Canada is that of Nexus Robotics who, in collaboration with our team at Inertia, are working on an autonomous weed picking robot that uses cameras and machine learning to distinguish between weeds and crops. This kind of advancement in agricultural automation has the potential to profoundly improve labor efficiency while decreasing our use of harmful herbicides. To read more about why our planet demands innovation in agriculture, check out this article by Tina Wung for RocketSpace. https://inertiaengineering.com/bookmarked-interesting-find/

The team at Inertia wanted to take a minute to wish all of our customers, colleagues, friends and family a safe and happy holidays. We know this year hasn’t been easy on anyone. Please continue to stay safe and keep looking out for one another as we set our sights on a brighter year ahead. Happy Holidays!

A mountain of gifts often means a mountain of packaging to along with it. As we cruise into the season of gifting, here’s a few earth-friendly(ier) packaging design examples. https://blog.printsome.com/sustainable-packaging-design/ #packagedesign #packagingdesign #sustainablepackaging #sustainabledesign #earthfriendly #recyclablepackaging #recyclable #design #productdesign #productpackaging #packaging #ecofriendly

We’ve all been on the receiving end of some pretty awful customer experiences in our lifetime. These experiences can often stem from employees who are working in negatively charged environments that suck the energy out of them leaving them to pass along their frustrations to you, the unwitting customer. Which brings us to this week’s post about the importance of championing a supportive, positive, inclusive culture for your team. A thoughtfully fostered culture equals happy... employees, which equals happy customers, which equals better business for everyone. This was the mantra championed by former Zappos.com CEO, Tony Hsieh, who sadly passed away late last month. Tony’s legacy of reinventing customer service started with taking great care of his employees. It’s an approach that we share at Inertia and one that continues to translate into us being able to provide exceptional experiences to our customers. If you’re looking to build company culture that inspires your team to do better, here is an article we’d like to share by Ed Nathanson for the LinkedIn Talent Blog that includes 7 steps every small business should take. https://inertiaengineering.com/bookmarked-interesting-find/ #companyculturematters #companyculture #happyemployees #happycustomers #productdevelopment #innovation

It's common knowledge that in the world of product design & development, speed-to-market matters, a lot. One challenge we face as product development service partners is educating prospective customers not on the advantages of going fast (the reasons are quite obvious), but rather on the lost opportunities of going slow - by saving money using inexperienced designers and engineers or overloading existing staff. To help illustrate this we’d like to share a quick payback anal...ysis graph to compare 2 different approaches (and budgets) to bringing a product to market. For more on the true cost of going slow, head over to our blog. https://inertiaengineering.com/the-true-cost-of-going-slow