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Benefits of Product Design Optimization (Taguchi Method)

March 27, 2023 by Renaud AnjoranLeave a Comment

Benefits of Product Design Optimization (Taguchi Method)

I wrote extensively about ways to proactively improve a product's design, in order to avoid quality, reliability, and safety issues. It involves reliability engineering, fail safe designs, and a variety of other objectives to take into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: books, new product development, product design

Why Following A Comprehensive NPI Process Pays Dividends And How Involved Buyers Need To Be

February 1, 2023 by Renaud Anjoran

Why Following A Comprehensive NPI Process Pays Dividends And How Involved Buyers Need To Be

New product introduction is a complex process to master, and SMEs and hardware startups we often work with find it very challenging and seek our help to devise and manage the different steps in order to get into mass production on time, on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: new product development process, new product introduction, NPI

A Logical Development Roadmap for New Hardware Products

January 23, 2023 by Renaud Anjoran

A Logical Development Roadmap for New Hardware Products

I enjoyed reading the book Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making and I started suggesting it to some of our clients. The most interesting takeaway is the development roadmap that the author suggests is typical for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: hardware products, new product development

Using Prototype Injection Molds for the First Production: Realistic?

November 21, 2022 by Renaud Anjoran

Using Prototype Injection Molds for the First Production: Realistic?

Some products include many custom-designed plastic parts. And the switch to mass production usually requires a high investment in high-pressure injection molds. I had a look at Kickstarter today and I saw a few examples of such products. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: injection molding, plastic injection molding, prototype tooling, soft tooling

How & When To Transition from a Product Development Team To a Manufacturer

October 11, 2022 by Renaud Anjoran

How & When To Transition from a Product Development Team To a Manufacturer

A good manufacturer is good at... running mass productions without unpleasant surprises. That includes the careful validation of the manufacturing & testing processes for new products, good process control, good management of suppliers, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: new product design, new product development, transition to manufacturing

New Product Launch Tips For Entrepreneurs (Q&A with Liz Long of ‘Learn to Make a Product’)

September 23, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

New Product Launch Tips For Entrepreneurs (Q&A with Liz Long of 'Learn to Make a Product')

Liz Long, founder of Learn to Make a Product a platform that supports customers to launch products, shares some of her new product launch tips and thoughts about what it takes for entrepreneurs to go through the development process and get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: custom product development, go to market, new product launch, new product manufacturing, private label products

Fail Safe Design Principles & Examples | Product Risk Reduction

September 21, 2022 by Renaud Anjoran

Fail Safe Design Principles & Examples | Product Risk Reduction

Some products may, if they fail in a certain way, endanger people's safety or lead to enormous economic losses. That puts much more responsibility on the designers' shoulders and is why using fail safe design principles is so critical. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: fail safe design, improving product design, new product design

How To Successfully Implement a dFMEA?

September 16, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

How to successfully implement a dFMEA?

The Sofeast Group's head of New Product Development, Andrew Amirnovin, explains what a dFMEA (Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) is, when it's used and why, and the 8 secrets you need to bear in mind to successfully implement … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development

Engineering Change Notification and Approval: a Vital Process

September 12, 2022 by Renaud Anjoran

Engineering Change Notification and Approval: a Vital Process

A lot of quality/reliability issues are the result of a poor engineering change notification & approval process or the complete lack of such a process. That's especially common in the context of OEM/ODM manufacturing. Let's uncover … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: communication, engineering changes

What’s The Investment Required To Bring My New Product To Market?

September 2, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

What's The Investment Required To Bring My New Product To Market?

A lot of entrepreneurs and SMEs struggle to calculate their investment for launching a new product. This can lead to unexpected costs mounting up and, eventually, needing to sell at a loss or even bankruptcy in extreme cases. So you need … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: new product launch, NRE costs, production unit cost, total landed cost

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