This is the final post in our series on the New Product Development process. Let’s assume you have your new product selling and business is established. It is time to review how well you have done. How is your...
The commercialization stage of any New Product Development process is where the ‘rubber meets the road’ and the product you are manufacturing in China gets introduced into the market. This stage is actually the final stage of the development...
Let’s say you have iterated successfully until you got a good prototype, and you have ensured production can run smoothly. Before making a large batch and “pushing it onto the market”, it is highly advised to spend a little...
Many importers take the time to define their product expectations and to get good pre-production samples from their Chinese suppliers, but completely forget to specify the type of product packaging required. We classified this under “other considerations” in this...
I wrote before about the importance of writing a product specification sheet. It is the bare minimum every importer should document. However, if you develop your own product and have it made in China, you should document additional technical...
Many companies develop a new product but totally overlook the safety and regulatory requirements that will apply to that new product. We have pulled some information from different sources to give you an idea of what to look out...
Once a first assembly job has been completed, it is time to review the results. It is not only a matter of checking quality and giving feedback to the Chinese factory as you’ll discover here in phase 5.8. (Remember...
In phase 5.7 of developing a new product once a prototype has been tested, design iterations have taken place, and tooling is ready (if applicable), it is time to test whether quality products can be made at the right...
In many cases, manufacturing a new product necessitates the preparation of custom tooling. Therefore phase 5.6 is an important step. (Don’t forget that you can see the whole series on developing a new product here.) The output from the...
After building a prototype and subjecting it to functional tests, you will likely need to make revisions from both a functional standpoint in order to ensure the product actually meets the business goals as well as from a product...
This is a blog written by Renaud Anjoran, an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer who has been involved in chinese manufacturing since 2005.
He is the CEO of The Sofeast Group.
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