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8 Must-Follow Tips for Software Companies Developing a New Hardware Product

April 7, 2023 by Adrian Leighton

8 Must-Follow Tips for Software Companies Developing A New Hardware Product

Software companies are often used to using an agile design approach (often SCRUM) to design and develop software products, and they wonder if they can carry over the approach to when they need to develop a new hardware product to support … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: agile design, hardware products, new product design, scrum, software

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

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

Planning for Quality & Compliance at the Product Design Stage: 3 Topics You MUST Focus On

June 15, 2022 by Renaud Anjoran

Planning for Quality & Compliance at the Product Design Stage: 3 Topics

A reader asked what he should pay attention to when he starts to work on a new product in order to avoid a very large “dumb tax” in the future. This is a good question, as there are many activities to undertake that will help your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: new product design, product quality, product reliability, product safety

DFX: 12 Product Design Optimizations You Could Be Making [Podcast]

March 25, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

DFX: 12 Product Design Optimizations You Could Be Making [Podcast]

In this episode... Renaud is joined once again by Sofeast's head of New Product Development, Andrew Amirnovin, to go over 12 'Design for Excellence/DfX' goals designers can optimize for when designing and developing a new product. These … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Product Design Tagged With: design for manufacturing, design for quality, design for x, new product design, new product development

Navigating The Product Design and NPI Maze For New Products [Podcast]

September 17, 2021 by Adrian Leighton

Navigating The Product Design and NPI Maze For New Products [Podcast]

In this episode… You've got an idea for a unique new product! Amazing! Now you need to develop that product concept, design it, test and validate it, and much more before finally going into mass production and bringing it to market. You … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: agile design, developing new products, mass production, new product design, new product development process, new product introduction, NPI, product design, testing new products

Developing a New Product? Think of Information Security Management.

September 6, 2021 by Renaud Anjoran

Developing a New Product? Think of Information Security Management.

More and more prototyping companies who routinely work for large companies have gotten certified to ISO/IEC 27001. If you have been scratching your head about what this standard about information security management entails and what it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: IP Protection, New Product Development Tagged With: developing new products, information security, intellectual property, IP protection, ISO 27001, new product design, prototyping companies

Why New Product Development of Electronics Takes So Long

August 24, 2021 by Renaud Anjoran

Why New Product Development of Electronics Takes So Long

Over the years, we have been talking to people who are planning to or are in the process of, developing a new product. And there is a very serious mismatch between expectations and reality during the new product development process. So … [Read more...]

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

So, You Are an Inventor Looking for a Manufacturer? Think Again.

August 3, 2021 by Renaud Anjoran

So, You Are an Inventor Looking for a Manufacturer? Think Again.

We are regularly contacted by self-described inventors who believe very hard in their product idea but do NOT want to manage that product’s development, production, and sale.  They are often smart people, brilliant even. But they tend … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: inventors, new product design, new product introduction process, new product launch, new product manufacturing

How Bad Product Design Leads to Many Quality Issues

July 5, 2021 by Renaud Anjoran

How Bad Product Design Leads to Many Quality Issues

I had an interesting discussion a few days ago. It made me realize most people see products of obviously poor quality and think the issues come from manufacturing, while, in fact, they most often come from bad product design! Let's see why … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: bad product design, improving product design, new product design, new product development, product design, product quality

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