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 … [Read more...]
Tips for Receiving Accurate Prototypes
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 … [Read more...]
Costs and Milestones to go from Product Concept to Market?
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 increase its … [Read more...]
How Many Prototype Iterations And Safety & Reliability Tests Do We Need For Our New Product?
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 … [Read more...]
Prototyping Equipment: 5 Key Uses You’ll Have For It
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 … [Read more...]
Elon Musk’s 4 Common-Sense NPI Tips
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 … [Read more...]
Avoiding Product Development Limbo: When To Engage Manufacturers
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 gnarly technical challenges to … [Read more...]
Switch Away from a Manufacturer at the First Signs of Trouble
I found myself warning a lot of companies recently about working with unsuitable manufacturers, and I thought I’d write about it. It usually unfolds this way: The buyer designs a new product and finds a manufacturer located in China … [Read more...]
Metal and Plastic Prototype Limitations (and why that’s OK)
Most parts and products have plastic or metal components, and during new product development, we commonly use rapid prototyping to create development prototypes that we test and validate fit, form, and function. It's helpful to understand … [Read more...]
Cost Vs Quality – How to improve yours.
We tackle the big question of cost versus quality in manufacturing. Aside from what this concept means, we look at the rather surprising (for foreigners, at least) Chinese attitude about how quality is linked to price, why lean … [Read more...]
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