Skipping critical validations before mass production can lead to quality issues, supply chain failures, and costly delays. In this episode, we explore the six essential buyer-side deliverables that ensure your product is truly ready for manufacturing. From ensuring process...
We examine the dramatic downfall of Angell Bikes, a French e-bike startup that once promised to revolutionize urban mobility. Despite strong financial backing, high-profile partnerships, and a sleek product, the company now faces bankruptcy. What went wrong? Listen...
Let’s explore a product development framework that could change how businesses approach product development: the evolution from Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to SLC Products (Simple, Lovable, and Complete). Why should you care? Because understanding these concepts can help you...
Let’s explore how a Product Requirements Document (PRD) can be a game-changer in hardware development, ensuring products meet both technical and user expectations. Discover why the PRD is essential for guiding teams, aligning goals, and avoiding costly errors, especially...
Let’s cover the main types of prototypes made during product development, from rough models to functional and robust prototypes, and why accuracy in dimensions, surface finish, and properties is vital. We provide practical tips for product development teams to...
What does it take to go from concept to market for a typical electro-mechanical consumer product in terms of milestones and costs? Also, what pitfalls should you be looking out for that could slow down your product launch and...
Customers often ask us these questions when they’re developing a new product to bring to market: How many prototype iterations will be needed? What are the essential tests for ensuring product safety and compliance? It’s quite hard to answer...
Prototyping is a critical step for anyone developing and bringing a new product to market. for design houses, manufacturing companies, and product developers alike. Let’s explore the differences between prototyping equipment and those used for mass production. You’ll also...
Let’s listen to Elon Musk’s insights and philosophy into developing and bringing new products to market (from an interview by ‘Everyday Astronaut’ on YouTube at his launch facility a few years back). A love/hate figure, Musk has succeeded in...
We are regularly in contact with companies that complain their new product is in ‘product development limbo’… it was planned to take 3 or 6 months, but it turns out that after 9 to 12 months there are still...
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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