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Documenting a Product for Production — A Key to Quality
If a product fails to meet customer expectations (the definition of quality), then there are three possibility causes: The manufacturer failed to...
The Conceptual Design Process in Product Development
One could argue that Conceptual Design (CD) is the most important phase of product development as it determines 90% of the market success of the...
Why Product Engineering Always Goes Over Budget — and what to do about it
In our research on why product development often exceeds the initial budget estimate, we found more than 60% of the root cause to be a failure to...
5 Tips to a Good Conceptual Design
One could argue that Conceptual Design (CD) is the most important phase of product development as it determines 90% of the market success of the...
Requirements Analysis — The Missing Link in Product Development
How well a product performs in the marketplace is almost entirely determined by the product's conceptual design (see). However, most of the product...
If your Product is Made in China, You Must Read This
China is known for its manufacturing abilities and many great products are made there. However, it is a different country with different laws and a...
4 Myths About Manufacturing in China
Many companies made a decision to source product/production in China based on a “myth.” For some of these companies, China turned out to be the...
Design Changes for Reshoring Manufacturing
Reshoring a product is more complex than handing over your blueprints to a new American contract manufacturer (CM). There are several crucial...
Planning for Reshoring Production
Are you thinking of reshoring? Not sure how to go about it. Here is a short list of things you should consider in your plan: ROI: Reshoring is an...
Is it Always Cheaper in China?
Although it is true that the labor rate in China is far lower than in the USA, their productivity (the value of the work they do per hour) more than...
5 Mistakes Teams Make in Designing a New Product
Are you planning to embark on a new product development journey? Whether in the startup scene or managing a small business, you aim for a triumphant...
What’s an Engineering Requirements Document and Why Should I care?
A Requirements Document (RD) is a controlled document that specifies the “what” of a product but not the “how,” that has yet to be designed. We are...
What Should be in a Requirements Document
Everyone knows that a Requirements Document (RD) is one of the keys to developing a product that has product market fit. Without product market fit,...
What Should NOT be in a Requirements Document
Everyone knows that a Requirements Document (RD) is one of the keys to developing a product that has product market fit. Without product market fit,...
Why Steve Jobs was so Successful at Product Development
Steve Jobs, and the rest of the Apple team, took a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy and turned it into THE most valuable company in the...