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...]
7 Must Do New Product Introduction Tasks For Successful Product Launches
Andrew Amirnovin, our group's Head of Compliance and Reliability, kicks off 2024 by introducing 7 key elements of the New Product Introduction process that you need to understand as they will help ensure a successful product launch, but … [Read more...]
Mold Texturing: How to Add Desired Finishes to Plastic Parts
Don't leave the finish on your product open to interpretation by your mold fabricator! We help you get to grips with the mold texturing that results in the finish on your injection molded plastic parts. We explore how to specify the … [Read more...]
The TRL Framework: The right choice for mass production?
The Technology Readiness Levels product development framework was developed by NASA and is often used to gauge the progress of a new product launch project, especially during prototyping. It gives visibility and control over the process of … [Read more...]
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