After the design of the PCBA schematics comes the time to choose a chip set and to start working on the firmware. (If you are not inclined to read technical how-to articles, this will be quite boring to you... But we are trying to give a … [Read more...]
China Supplier Vetting Part 10: Pricing, Negotiation, Contracts
This is the 10th part in our China supplier vetting series. We’ll cover requests for quotations, negotiations, and contracts. By now we covered pretty much all sorts of due diligence a paranoid importer might go through! And yet it’s not … [Read more...]
PCBA Schematics Design for Your Production in China
The board schematics and the choice of chipset are an important step when developing and manufacturing an electronic product. Let's look into this, in this third article in our series (part 1 is here, part 2 is here) In a complex product … [Read more...]
R&D and Power Consumption Evaluation – Develop an Electrical Product In China Part 2
Last week I posted part 1 of our series on What It Takes to Develop a New Electronic Product in China. In this second part, we look at R&D and at the evaluation of power consumption. 1. R&D (both in-house & with a … [Read more...]
Do Many Amazon Products Come Right From Alibaba in China?
Yahoo Finance recently ran an article entitled Think you’re buying on Amazon? It’s actually from Alibaba. A few people in the US noticed that many products they can buy on Amazon.com can also be found on Alibaba.com. Let's unpack their … [Read more...]
What It Takes to Develop a New Electronic Product in China – Part 1
More and more companies work with a Chinese manufacturing partner to develop a complex new product that includes electronic and mechanical components. We decided to start a new series of articles. It will be based on a fictitious new … [Read more...]
How To Cooperate With Your Chinese Supplier, Part 11: China Suppliers: from Problem Reporting to Solution
By Fabien Gaussorgues I must have read or heard “this information should be provided by the customer” hundreds of times. It comes from manufacturers, traders, sourcing agents -- all living in China, whether they are Chinese or … [Read more...]
Why Chinese Factories Don’t Get Better: Constant Fire Fighting
I came up on a really insightful article entitled Stop Fighting Fires. It was published in the Harvard Business Review in 2000 and is still very relevant. The authors identified the following 6 symptoms that are common to all … [Read more...]
China Supplier Vetting Part 9: In-Depth Due Diligence
If you are about to select one Chinese supplier, and you know you will be tied to them for the foreseeable future, it is in your interest to spend some time and money to vet them. Here are a couple of examples: A company is about to … [Read more...]
The Root Cause Analysis — an Art Seldom Practiced in China…
One of the most common ways to drill down from a problem to the root cause(s) of that problem is the "5 whys" approach. I wrote before that Chinese manufacturing engineers & managers are, on average, very bad at uncovering root … [Read more...]
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