MAGNET: Reaching New Heights in Product Innovation

MAGNET Product Design and Development, an Ohio Edison Technology Center, is the region’s manufacturing consulting organization with the aim of stimultating growth and helping manufacturers become more competitive.

After seeing his dad struggle to reach a smoke alarm battery, Nelson Pitlor thought businesses might have a similar difficulty replacing high ceiling light bulbs and ballasts. He was right.

With the help of MAGNET Product Design & Development team and Goldfire, the optimal decision engine, Nelson’s company, Accessmount LLC, created a multiple award-winning “ladderless” light fixture that easily mounts to and is removed from high places with a pole and some simple magnets and latches, increasing both savings and safety.

Accessmount has won multiple industry awards, include Building Magazine’s Top 100 Products list for this new innovation. Dave Pierson of MAGNET stated, “By using Goldfire, I was able to achieve fast failures and quickly scout solutions to help Nelson bring this innovative idea to market.”

Fast Facts

Industry
Consumer

Headquarters
Cleveland, OH; USA

Challenge
Market-ready engineering design and manufacturing plan

Solution
Used Invention Machine Goldfire to research patents, sources, and technical solutions in the context of the new concept

Benefits
“An entrepreneur’s idea is often like starting with a sky. You need to take the sky and narrow it to a football field, then to a gym size, then to a refrigerator, and so on. After you get the concept to about 90% , that’s where the technical work begins. Goldfire helps at every step.”
- Dave Pierson, Senior Design Engineer; MAGNET Product Design & Development