If you are gearing up to launch a new product you should be getting answers to these 9 questions before you start investing time and money! This is split into two parts, and here in part 1 we're focusing mainly on market research and … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2023
Pilot Run Best Practices
Hopefully, you already appreciate the importance of doing a pilot run (we already wrote about that here) to test all kinds of things before mass production starts, but here's a quick recap about why it's an essential part of the new product … [Read more...]
10 Sourcing Mistakes New Buyers With Asian Suppliers Should Avoid!
We see time and again buyers who are new to outsourcing their manufacturing to Asian suppliers in China, India, Vietnam, and elsewhere making these damaging sourcing mistakes. Here are the 10 most common ones waiting to trip you up...but … [Read more...]
How To Do A Product Risk Assessment ‘By The Book’ (for Safety)
How to ensure a product is going to be safe? By conducting a product risk assessment and acting on it. The problem is, if I ask people how they assess risk, I may get widely different answers. A structured approach is needed. And the … [Read more...]
8 Must-Follow Tips for Software Companies Developing a New Hardware Product
Software companies are often used to using an agile design approach (often SCRUM) to design and develop software products, and they wonder if they can carry over the approach to when they need to develop a new hardware product to support … [Read more...]