Let's focus on your handover to manufacturing (specifically looking at hard goods with mechanical elements and some electronic/electrical parts). Product handover to your manufacturer is a structured process of actions you follow … [Read more...]
Freight Forwarding Innovation for Amazon Sellers
Amit Rosenthal, CEO of Proboxx, shares his thoughts on the latest technology and innovation in freight forwarding with a focus on Amazon sellers. You'll get an insight into why freight forwarding was stuck in the 20th century and needed to … [Read more...]
10 Common Disputes With Chinese Suppliers And How To Overcome Them!
Our clients sometimes come to us with problems and disputes with Chinese suppliers. We provide advice for them and others in a similar situation and bring awareness to common problems so they can be avoided in the first place where … [Read more...]
Improving Product Quality, Reliability, and Compliance with a QA Program
What would a QA program that you put in place to improve the quality, reliability, and compliance of new electro-mechanical products ideally include? Find out here! Prefer listening to reading? Listen to the audio … [Read more...]
2024: What if Trump Came Back? New Tariffs for China?
Looking at the momentum of Donald Trump's campaign for the US presidency, people everywhere are starting to take the scenario of his returning to the White House seriously. And people involved in international trade are wondering, will he … [Read more...]
ESD Testing: Essential For New Electronic Products?
Explore some of the knowledge you need to safeguard your electronic products against ESD (electrostatic discharge). Learn about its potential damage, and understand the preventive measures for ESD in the product design process, during … [Read more...]
List of 15 Great Plastic Injection Mold Fabrication Companies in China
High-pressure plastic injection molding is one of the most common fabrication processes. Tens of thousands of factories in Ningbo, Shenzhen, and many other places have at least a few presses running near-continuously. If you develop your … [Read more...]
Mold Tooling Ownership: The term Chinese suppliers push for will shock you!
Recently, in an email exchange, we found this alarming example of a term in a plastic supplier's contract about mold tooling ownership: It got me thinking about the different expectations on both the manufacturer's and customer's sides … [Read more...]
Experience Effect: How it Reduces Manufacturing Costs and Improves Efficiency over time
What is the 'experience effect?' We look at how the experience gained over time by manufacturers who are producing the same products can lead to cost reductions and efficiency improvements. To illustrate this, we give some examples of … [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...]