NEW WHITE PAPER: FIND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE WITH EARLY SUPPLIER INVOLVEMENT

The growing global marketplace has placed additional strain on product developers who are faced with the challenges of getting new products through product development and onto market faster than ever before. One solution is the Early Supplier Involvement process, where product designers and manufacturers get the opportunity to review product designs and leverage the combined resources of…

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NEW PRODUCT DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING INNOVATION: IT TAKES TWO

Innovate or die. An aging mantra (attributed to Bill Gates back in the 1990s we think?), but also still relevant today. The one thing that’s missing? What that looks like in practice. Often, people think only of product designers holed up somewhere working and then re-working designs, wastebaskets full of ideas that proved unsuccessful. What’s…

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3 REASONS TO CHOOSE EARLY SUPPLIER INVOLVEMENT

Editor’s note: Article last updated October 29, 2019. BALANCING QUALITY AND BUDGET Bringing new products to market in competitive industries is a challenging prospect. We all want quality parts, but need to balance that with the pressures of getting new products to market fast and keeping production costs low. In short, new product introduction can…

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