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End Of Life Electronic Components: Managing The Risk Of Them Being In Your Product
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Tagged bill of materials, component suppliers, end of life
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Why Skipping Incoming QC Is a Source of High Risks & Costs
Most customers are well aware that incoming QC inspection (IQC) is one of the most important “quality gates”. Ensure the …
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Tagged incoming qc, product quality, qc, quality inspections
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Visiting Agilian in Dongguan from Hong Kong [Guide]
Customers often like to visit us at the factory, so here is some guidance to help you plan and have …
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Tagged directions to agilian, factory visit, visiting china
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What You Should Think About Before Doing Reliability Testing
Our reliability expert, Andrew Amirnovin, recently discussed how to decide what kind of reliability testing your product needs for anyone …
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Tagged design for reliability, reliability testing
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Product Design Cost: 10 Factors That Affect Electronic Products
Our head of new product development, Andrew Amirnovin, shares 10 factors that impact your product design cost (with a focus …
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Tagged design for manufacturing, manufacturing costs, new product development, product design
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What Is Your Product R&D Project’s Structure When Working With Agilian?
Agilian is a contract manufacturer that also supports customers with developing their products, too, before mass producing them. When you …
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Tagged product design, product development, product r&d, working
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DFM Approaches: OEM vs Contract Manufacturer
Both OEMs and CMs follow different DFM approaches. Let’s look at what Design For Manufacturing is, its benefits, and how …
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What does it mean to work on the basis of an open BOM with customers?
In this post, we’ll explain why access to your Bill of Materials (BOM) is so important, why some Chinese manufacturers …
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Tagged bill of materials, sourcing from china, switching manufacturers
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Key Attributes Investors Look For In Promising IoT Hardware Startups [Report]
In this article, we’ll explore the key attributes that investors look for in promising IoT hardware startups. To bring these …
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Tagged IoT products, obtaining investment, startups
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FCC Compliance Tips for Electronics
Agilian customers who are bringing new electronic products to market sometimes ask us to explain the FCC certification process so …
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Tagged compliance, consumer electronics, fcc certification, product testing
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5 Tips for Increasing Profits on ‘Cheap’ Products
It doesn’t take long to find low-cost products online from a variety of Chinese manufacturers. I searched for ‘earbuds’ on …
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Tagged product design, product development, sourcing from china
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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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SCRUM for Hardware Design and Development
Developing an innovative hardware product is a complex project. And most of those projects take much longer than initially planned. …
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Tagged agile design, hardware products, new product development, scrum
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DFR Design For Reliability Guide & Implementation Secrets
I recently guested on Sofeast’s China Manufacturing Decoded podcast to discuss DfR Design for Reliability. We discussed the design for …
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