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ISTA Testing: Navigate the Maze and Choose Wisely
ISTA testing is short for the ‘International Safe Transit Association’ testing. It’s testing done on packaging to make sure that …
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Tagged ISTA testing, packaging, transport testing
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Ongoing Reliability Testing: Avoid Returns, Bad Reviews, and Warranty Claims!
Ongoing reliability testing, ORT testing for short, is the last stage of reliability testing once you’ve already designed and developed …
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Tagged ORT, reliability testing
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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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Tagged components, electronic components, sourcing
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Why do we test components and new products to failure during the NPI process?
Here at Agilian, we often use test to failure to evaluate how durable and reliable components and products are likely …
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Tagged design for reliability, product reliability, reliability testing, test to failure
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How to Collect Reliability Data And Make It Work For You
Manufacturers can collect reliability data from their testing and product returns to assess the performance and durability of their products. …
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Tagged design for reliability, lessons learnt database, product reliability, reliability testing
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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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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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Tagged pilot run, pre-production activities
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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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Tagged design for reliability, product design, product reliability
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ISTA Package Testing: Get It Done Before Shipment To Protect Products
ISTA package testing is a form of packaging reliability testing that puts your shipping cartons through their paces to provide …
Posted in Shipping
Tagged logistics, packaging, reliability testing, shipping
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UL Compliance: Does YOUR Product Need UL?
We recently shared a list of US Consumer Electronics Compliance Basics that importers should know about, especially, in this case, …
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Tagged product safety, product testing, ul
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US Consumer Electronics Compliance Basics
This is the first post in a series and this time is about US consumer electronics compliance testing and regulations. …
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Tagged certific, compliance, product testing
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Cost Of Poor Quality and Reliability: “Pay Me Now, or Pay Me Later.”
The cost of poor quality (and reliability) is a popular topic among quality and reliability professionals. A common argument occurs …
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Tagged cost of poor quality, new product development, quality management, reliability testing
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