Noctua Fans R&D process and improving on an already quality product

[beanflying]

Really worthwhile and not just about PC cooling but more about the company philosophy and approach to getting a new 'simple' and quantitatively better product to market.

[coppercone2]

that brand of fan made some very shitty function generator nearly silent (tektronix budget model)

[thermistor-guy]

Saw the video before I saw your post. Steve is taking his channel in an Engineering-heavy direction, and kudos to him.
As the video highlights, a lot of product development is about design-for-manufacture.

In my telecoms days, I would be talking to and visiting the factory every week, sometimes every day, about tweaking
product designs - how to make products better/faster/cheaper for the factory to make.

But no corner-cutting. These products were designed to run 30 years non-stop.