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...]
The Design for Reliability Process for Launching Reliable Products
What is the design for reliability process that importers can follow to make sure that their products don't fail once in use by customers, even if it's some time after the sale date? Since you need products to last at least the length of … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
What is the product return rate and how to reduce it? [Podcast]
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In this episode… The Sofeast Group's head of New Product Development, Andrew Amirnovin explores what the product return rate is and provides advice you can take to reduce yours before you even start mass producing your product. If you do … [Read more...]
What Does A Good QA Program For New Electronic Products Include? [Podcast]
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In this episode… Renaud and Adrian explore what a good Quality Assurance program for new electronic products looks like. Any new products have greater risks, and in many cases, importers haven't been able to visit Chinese suppliers … [Read more...]
The New Apparel Development & Production Process [Podcast]
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In this episode… Renaud is joined by another special guest, Belinda Jacobs founder of Techpacks.co, a company that has been helping soft goods designers and brands improve production & decrease waste, through tech packs since 2016. … [Read more...]
Is Your Prototype Ready for Production? 2 Opposite Examples
Many people work hard to get to a working prototype that looks good, then they think it's a production ready prototype and can just be passed to a manufacturer. However, as I wrote before, there are many challenges when going from … [Read more...]
DFX: 12 Product Design Optimizations You Could Be Making [Podcast]
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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...]
What Is The Typical Industrial Design Process? [Podcast]
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In this episode… Andy Bartlett, a UK-based product designer, joins Renaud again to discuss the industrial design process in detail. Following on from a recent episode where he introduced what industrial design is and how to work with … [Read more...]
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