Handing Over To Manufacturing: Best Practices

China Manufacturing Decoded

Adrian and Renaud discuss how to plan for the handover of your innovative new product to manufacturing (with a focus on hard goods with mechanical elements and some electronic/electrical parts). Product handover should be a structured process of actions taken mainly before the manufacturer gets involved to ensure a smooth transition from you to them so the product ends up being made to your specifications and requirements and the risks of issues before product launch are minimized.

You'll learn:

• What a product handover is.
• The drawbacks of not following a structured process and how not to hand over.
• What the best practices for handover are so you can follow them to streamline your next project.

Show Sections

00:00 - Greetings and introduction

00:50 - Who needs to hand over their product to a manufacturer and why?

04:22 - The WRONG way to hand over to the manufacturer.

09:57 - Questions about the product that need to be answered.

12:55 - Who will do the DFM?

15:32 - What can happen if you just throw designs over the wall to a manufacturer without doing a DFM review?

18:15 - Handover best practices.

35:14 - When is the handover complete?

37:59 - Wrapping up.

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