Patents for New Products: Necessary for Inventors and Hardware Startups?
Inventors, entrepreneurs, startups, and SMEs with new product ideas for hard goods worry about when the right time to pursue […]
How To Check If Your Manufacturer Is Overcharging You?
Sometimes you receive worrying pricing from the manufacturer you’re outsourcing production to. It seems like it’s too expensive. Maybe they’re […]
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, […]
Your Product is NOT Compliant in the EU or UK if You Don’t Have All of its Technical Files
Market surveillance authorities around the world, in particular the EU and UK, are expecting to be provided with an increased […]
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. […]
Using One Turnkey Manufacturer vs. Several Suppliers for China Production
Are there any advantages for importers like entrepreneurs, startups and SMEs to working with a single turnkey manufacturer in China […]
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 […]
Product Teardown and Design for Assembly and Disassembly Improve Product Reliability and Quality
How do continuous product teardown, disassembly, and reassembly, improve reliability and quality? Let’s find out here…
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 […]
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 […]
Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions (CAPA) Guide
In this post, I’m going to introduce a helpful strategy for importers manufacturing in China or elsewhere to reduce quality […]
Conducting a Pareto Analysis | Method and Template
What is the Pareto analysis? Many engineers working in manufacturing turn to conducting a Pareto Analysis when they want to […]
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 […]
Assembly Problem Prevention Checklist
Pilots follow a checklist before they fly. Same thing for doctors & nurses. But, for some reason, I see very […]
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 […]
