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7 Costly Plastic Injection Mold Tooling Mistakes That Buyers Should Avoid
You’ve spent months developing a new product. The prototypes look good, the design seems ready, and you’re preparing to invest thousands of dollars in its tooling. But this is also where some very expensive plastic injection mold tooling mistakes can happen. What if the first…
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Bad Measurements, Bad Decisions: A Hidden Factory Quality Risk
Your factory tells you a component is within tolerance. Their inspection report says everything is OK. But what if the measurement system itself is unreliable? This happens more often than many buyers realize. Two people can measure the same component and get different results…
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What Dyson’s $500 Toothbrush Launch Can Teach Us About Manufacturing Risk
Dyson launched its new CameraJet toothbrush in September 2026 after around six years of development and the involvement of hundreds of engineers. It is an ambitious product. As well as brushing teeth, it uses a camera to identify gaps and directs a jet of liquid between them to…
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Why Buyers and Suppliers Skip NPI Steps Before Mass Production
Getting a new product into mass production quickly sounds like an obvious goal. You want to launch your new product, start generating revenue, and meet commitments to customers, retailers, or investors. Your manufacturer also wants to move ahead because mass production is…
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Hardware Project Communication: How Small Misunderstandings Become Big Problems
A hardware project can appear to be progressing perfectly well until the first prototype, tooling sample, or production unit arrives and something is wrong. Frustratingly, it’s neither broken, nor badly made. It’s just not what you expected. This is one of the most frustrating…
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DfX (Design for X): 12 Optimizations for New Products
Let’s revisit a discussion with reliability expert Andrew Amirnovin about Design for X (DfX) and 12 different objectives product developers can optimize for. A product that works is only the starting point. To succeed in production and in customers’ hands, it also needs to be…
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Why Your Manufacturer’s Questions Can Save You From Costly Production Problems
You send a manufacturer your CAD files, drawings, specifications, and requirements and expect the next step to be fairly simple: they review everything, tell you what it will cost, and provide a lead time. Instead, they come back with a long list of questions. For buyers eager…
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EU/UK Product Compliance in China: Why Supplier Certificates Aren’t Enough
A supplier may tell you that a product is CE compliant, provide a test report, or point to similar products they have manufactured before. But none of those things automatically proves that the exact product you are placing on the market meets every applicable requirement. For…
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Reducing US Tariff Exposure? Country-of-Origin and China+1 Risks To Understand
With U.S. tariffs continuing to affect many products imported from China, some buyers are looking again at China+1 manufacturing as a way to reduce their exposure. A supplier may suggest carrying out part of the manufacturing in Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, or another country.…
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China Manufacturing Contracts: Protecting Product Quality, IP, and Tooling
A manufacturing contract cannot guarantee that every production order will go smoothly. However, it can make it much clearer what the supplier is expected to manufacture, which quality standard applies, where production may take place, when inspections can be performed, and what…