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How To Reduce Risks When Developing New Products? [Video]
When bringing your new product to market, following a structured new product introduction process is critical if you want to …
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Do A Bridge Production Rather Than Rushing Into Mass Production
When introducing a new product, Chinese suppliers often hasten their customers into mass production. While getting the product into production …
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How To Plan For A Successful Pilot Run?
We’ve written about the importance of pilot runs before here and here, so in this post, I’m mainly going to …
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4 Types of Pre Production Prototype You’ll Make Before Production
For most electro-mechanical products, these are the main 4 types of pre production prototype (that are often called “final prototypes”) …
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You NEED to do product qualification BEFORE mass production!
Let’s discuss the ONE key type of activity that needs to happen during the NPI process in order to go …
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The NPI Process You Need To Follow For Successful Manufacturing (Podcast)
At Agilian, we follow a very specific 6-phase new production introduction process to get your new product from concept to …
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How Reliability Testing Is Critical To Obtaining Great Mass-Produced Products
During the new product introduction process, it takes an enormous amount of time, energy, resources, and manpower to go from …
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How To Manage 7 Key Types Of New Product Manufacturing Risks
When developing a new and innovative product you need to get it to market and start getting a return on …
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What NPI Process Does Agilian Follow?
When you work with us to help develop and manufacture your new product in China we follow our own 6-phase …
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7 DFM Tips for Designing New Products To Be Made in China
I was asked to prepare a presentation about Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and share number of DFM tips for the …
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The Conundrum of Investing in Tooling Before a Final Prototype
In most new product development projects for electro-mechanical products, there comes a time when the company (and its investors) need to make …
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9 New Product Development Milestones For Hardware Startups
Are you a startup, and are you developing a new hardware (physical) product? Are you planning to raise money to …
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Product Design FMEA and Fault Tree Analysis: Addressing Issues Preventively
The more novel and the more complex a product design is, the higher the risks of running into technical issues. …
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How To Write Good Work Instructions for Production Operators & Inspectors [9 Tips]
Documenting the standard way of performing production and inspection work is part of the ‘best practices’ all good manufacturers follow. …
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6 Ways 2D Drawings Help Communication Through Development & Production
Have you been working on the design of a new product? Maybe you are in the prototyping phase, you are …
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