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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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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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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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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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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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How To Ethically Create A Similar Product To One Already On The Market?
Almost every product niche has a variety of different brands’ products to choose from which are fairly similar. OK, there …
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PCB Design or Enclosure Design: Which to do first?
Should you do PCB design or enclosure design first for your new electro-mechanical product? That’s a question which bugs many …
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11 Ways A Manufacturer Can Help Improve Your Product Design
There is a common belief among many importers that Chinese factories are unable to help during the design phase of …
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dFMEA: 8 Secrets for a Successful Implementation
In this post, we’re going to explore the dFMEA or design failure mode and effects analysis. This is a must-use …
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7 Secrets Behind Low Product Return Rates
When products are returned by consumers this is a huge problem for businesses. In this post, I’m going to share …
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Tagged DFM, product design, reliability testing, return rates, sourcing
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Why NOT To Work With A Manufacturer Until You Have Mature Product Designs!
When manufacturing new products in China there are several steps that just can’t be skipped, especially in the product design …
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An Effective New Product Development Process for Electronics
A new product development process typically entails how a product will be developed from concept all the way to production. …
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How To Make Prototypes In China (5 Key Steps & Objectives)
If you’re going to manufacture a mechanical and/or electrical product in China, this article will help you plan for the …
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7 Items To Include When Sending Technical Design Files To Your Chinese Supplier
In the past, I explained how to structure a product specification sheet to ensure the supplier knows what is expected regarding the …
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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