Category: Product Development

How do continuous product teardown, disassembly, and reassembly, improve reliability and quality? Let’s find out here…

Should you do PCB design or enclosure design first for your new electro-mechanical product? That’s a question which bugs many […]

There is a common belief among many importers that Chinese factories are unable to help during the design phase of […]

In this post, we’re going to explore the dFMEA or design failure mode and effects analysis. This is a must-use […]

Here we’re focusing on product testing, specifically, drop testing using smartphones as a typical example of a consumer electronic product […]

Today budget cuts, tight schedules, and the Covid pandemic have caused a lot of companies to cut corners, even really […]

In this post, I’m going to explain how to work with a contract manufacturer (CM) in China most effectively by […]

A new product development process typically entails how a product will be developed from concept all the way to production. […]

We previously discussed the importance of doing a pilot run before going into mass production, but in this post let’s […]

If you’re going to manufacture a mechanical and/or electrical product in China, this article will help you plan for the […]

Regarding the limitations of common reliability and safety testing standards, I came upon an interesting video from automaker Tesla recently: In it, […]

You need to be aware that during new product development, and also during mass production runs, a number of samples […]

The autobiography of Sir James Dyson, British inventor of the wildly successful Dyson vacuum cleaner: Invention: A Life on their […]

In the past, I explained how to structure a product specification sheet to ensure the supplier knows what is expected regarding the […]

You are developing a new product or buying a product that is being produced for you. Naturally, the manufacturing costs […]