If you consider the wide range of items that make up sporting goods and equipment, you won’t be surprised to find that there is no single, consistent process for the development and production of all of them. The process by which sporting goods go from “idea to market” is as varied as the products themselves. One thing that holds true for the development and production of all sporting goods – and consumer goods as a whole – is that engineers are involved in the entire process.

In the Job Functions section of this module, we'll give you an example of piece of equipment going through the various stages of the product development process and the engineers' role in that process.