Every product has a life cycle. Think of a car: it comes out on the market and attracts attention, then gets more common on the roads, then needs a redesign, and after some time most models' production gets stopped. When it comes to most … [Read more...]
Ensuring Supplier Transparency for a New Product Made in China
As I wrote before, there has been a big push for transparency in supply chains over the past few years. However, supplier transparency is hard to come by in China and very few buyers get visibility beyond their tier-1 … [Read more...]
How The Taguchi Method Leads To Consistently-Manufactured Products
The Taguchi method is a tool used in engineering and manufacturing to improve product and process quality and reduce defects at an early stage. It is a statistical analysis approach used early in the product development process that reduces … [Read more...]
10 Factors Affecting Electronic Product Design Costs
Let's explore 10 factors that affect the cost of electronic product designs and the reasons why they do and tips on what you need to be aware of. Anyone bringing new products to the market who is interested in controlling costs should at … [Read more...]
Environmentally Conscious Product Design Strategies
We share almost 40 strategies that can help you design products with a lower environmental impact from the IEC 62430:2019 standard for environmentally conscious product design. Greener manufacturing is increasing in popularity and being … [Read more...]
Benefits of Product Design Optimization (Taguchi Method)
I wrote extensively about ways to proactively improve a product's design, in order to avoid quality, reliability, and safety issues. It involves reliability engineering, fail safe designs, and a variety of other objectives to take into … [Read more...]
7 Key Product Tests You Need To Use
Using the 80/20 rule, senior engineer Paul Adams uses his own decades of experience to explore the 7 product tests (for hard goods, mainly) that have stood the test of time for him throughout his career because these few tests tend to … [Read more...]
A Logical Development Roadmap for New Hardware Products
I enjoyed reading the book Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making and I started suggesting it to some of our clients. The most interesting takeaway is the development roadmap that the author suggests is typical for … [Read more...]
Not Assessing the Environmental Impact of Made-In-China Productions? Big Mistake.
Today's manufacturers need to start assessing the environmental impact of their productions in China (or elsewhere), because of the impending EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) coming in May 2023 that will demand that … [Read more...]
Why DVT & PVT Mistakes Could Cause A Product Recall!
Electronics giant Philips has been in the news due to a billion-dollar recall of medical devices (ventilators and sleep apnea machines) that have, unfortunately, resulted in deaths and injuries. What could have caused such serious … [Read more...]
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