When a new product is designed and developed, ensuring that it suits the market's needs is a very high on the list of priorities. In this article, I will focus on electronic products, but the same holds true for non-highly regulated product … [Read more...]
Why Component Level Testing Is So Important
Let's explore component-level testing, the process followed for selecting and testing good quality and reliable components for your product, and the various benefits you'll get by testing components during the product design and development … [Read more...]
What Does a Deflationary China Mean for Importers?
China has had to face a difficult situation recently: They have passed their demographic peak and their population is aging. A fall in exports and imports is now obvious. The Wall Street Journal just wrote "China’s 40-Year Boom Is … [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...]
Cheap Battery Risks And Why New Laws Mean Their Days Are Numbered
China-based British compliance expert, Clive Greenwood, gives us the lowdown on why cheap batteries from China are risky and can be dangerous for consumers, and how compliance laws are changing so that using them in future will be almost … [Read more...]
Analyzing Reliability Problems in the News Recently: Titan Sub and Siemens Gamesa Wind Turbines
We explore two high-profile product reliability problems that have been in the news recently: the destruction of the Oceangate Titan submersible that catastrophically imploded near the wreck of the Titanic and the reliability failures of … [Read more...]
EU Product Chemical Compliance and Tips for Buyers
Renaud welcomes our friend Fredrik Grönkvist of Compliancegate.com to discuss EU product compliance, in particular, harmful substances of note, common regulations or directives you need to comply with, and what we can learn from recent data … [Read more...]
New Product Launch: Planning & Discovery Phases Are So Important
I read an interesting book recently: How big things get done, by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner. The authors have amassed a large database of “big projects” — from roads and high-speed train lines to airports and nuclear power plants — … [Read more...]
Can you be TOO trusting with your Chinese factory in the name of being partners?
Some Western buyers who outsource their manufacturing (and product development in some cases) to Chinese suppliers think that offering a partnership where each side strives to be as friendly as possible and accommodate each other perhaps … [Read more...]
How to figure out what reliability testing you need?
Let's explore how to figure out what reliability testing you need for your product, the questions reliability engineers will ask you, and the factors that influence the kinds of testing to be done and its cost. … [Read more...]
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