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Exploring Product Development Agreements For Importers [Podcast]

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In This Episode... We explore product development agreements that clarify your expectations, protect your IP, keep leverage over your supplier, provide you with transparency and control over your supply chain, and make it 100% clear who is … [Read more...]

Exploring The Benefits Of Rapid Prototyping And Rapid Tooling [Podcast]

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In This Episode... Renaud and Adrian talk about rapid prototyping and rapid tooling methods to make prototypes a lot faster than production tooling, with a focus on electromechanical products and plastic injection molding. You'll get … [Read more...]

Getting To Grips With Non-Recurring Engineering Costs (NRE) [Podcast]

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss Non-Recurring Engineering costs for manufacturers. As the name suggests, these costs are usually one-off and are what it takes to get your product into production. These costs are perhaps better … [Read more...]

The Design for X Approach: 12 Common Examples

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The Design For X (or “Design for Excellence”) methodology lays out a number of design guidelines for reaching the product’s objectives. The idea is to review and improve the product & process design before the new product is … [Read more...]

How A DFQ Review Designs Quality INTO Your Product At An Early Stage [Podcast]

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What if you could reduce the chances of quality problems long before your product goes into production? A DFQ review can help you achieve this! What is DFQ? Design For Quality is where we review a number of factors that affect quality at … [Read more...]

A Textbook on Design for Manufacturing and the NPI Process (EVT-DVT-PVT)

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I am halfway through this book and I thought many readers would enjoy it: Product Realization: Going from One to a Million by Anna C. Thornton. Here is the book's presentation by its publisher: Product Realization: Going from One to a … [Read more...]

Good Project Management With Chinese Suppliers From A Product Designer’s Perspective [Podcast]

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Let's hear from an experienced product designer about project management with Chinese suppliers... In this episode, we catch up with Andy Bartlett, a friend of Sofeast, who is an enormously experienced product designer from the UK, to … [Read more...]