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18 Electronic Component Selection Steps For Success

18 Electronic Component Selection Steps For Success

You need to be able to source electronic components for your new product that reach your cost, quality, and reliability …

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CTQ Components How Component Engineers Manage Their Quality

CTQ Components: How Component Engineers Manage Their Quality

CTQ means ‘Critical To Quality‘ and you can actually use that methodology for just about anything that you want to …

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7 Secrets Behind Low Product Return Rates

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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best practices when qualifying contract manufacturers and component suppliers

Best Practices To Follow When Qualifying Your Contract Manufacturer Or Component Supplier

Recently our Executive VP, Renaud Anjoran, discussed a number of the key best practices that importers should follow when qualifying …

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Agilian How To Switch To A New Chinese Manufacturer And Or Develop A Backup eBook

How and Why To Switch Chinese Manufacturers [eBook]

In this new eBook, we explain to you how and under what circumstances you may want to switch away from …

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How To Qualify Component Suppliers at the Design & Prototyping Stage

How To Qualify Component Suppliers At The Design & Prototyping Stage

At Agilian, we mostly work on totally new products. It is a rare project that doesn’t force us to use …

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