If businesses are able to find an interesting low-cost product (we're focusing on those that can already be bought off the shelf from Chinese suppliers) and make changes to it, it might be possible to turn it into a high-profit product. But … [Read more...]
Learning From Examples of Non-Compliant Products
What is the best way to familiarize yourself with the safety risks in your product category? I'd say you should look at recent recalls and lawsuits on non-compliant products similar to yours. There is a lot to learn. Here are two … [Read more...]
9 Key Questions When Developing A New Product (Part 1)
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...]
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...]
CE and UKCA Compliance Overview
Explore how to comply with CE and UKCA regulations, the markings of which indicate that your product complies with the safety requirements of the EU and Great Britain and can be legally sold in these markets. No matter where your … [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...]
9 Key Quality Management Challenges in China
Managing quality in China is tough when you outsource production to a manufacturer (your 'supplier'). There are a number of quality management challenges to be aware of that can trip up buyers and we're sharing 9 key ones here. Thanks to … [Read more...]
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