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Both OEMs and CMs follow different DFM approaches. Let’s look at what Design For Manufacturing is, its benefits, and how […]

In this post, we’ll explain why access to your Bill of Materials (BOM) is so important, why some Chinese manufacturers […]

In this article, we’ll explore the key attributes that investors look for in promising IoT hardware startups. To bring these […]

Agilian customers who are bringing new electronic products to market sometimes ask us to explain the FCC certification process so […]

It doesn’t take long to find low-cost products online from a variety of Chinese manufacturers. I searched for ‘earbuds’ on […]

We’ve written about the importance of pilot runs before here and here, so in this post, I’m mainly going to […]

For most electro-mechanical products, these are the main 4 types of pre production prototype (that are often called “final prototypes”) […]

Developing an innovative hardware product is a complex project. And most of those projects take much longer than initially planned. […]

I recently guested on Sofeast’s China Manufacturing Decoded podcast to discuss DfR Design for Reliability. We discussed the design for […]

Almost every product niche has a variety of different brands’ products to choose from which are fairly similar. OK, there […]

ISTA package testing is a form of packaging reliability testing that puts your shipping cartons through their paces to provide […]

Inventors, entrepreneurs, startups, and SMEs with new product ideas for hard goods worry about when the right time to pursue […]

Sometimes you receive worrying pricing from the manufacturer you’re outsourcing production to. It seems like it’s too expensive. Maybe they’re […]

We recently shared a list of US Consumer Electronics Compliance Basics that importers should know about, especially, in this case, […]

Market surveillance authorities around the world, in particular the EU and UK, are expecting to be provided with an increased […]