Tooling Tips for Product Entrepreneurs: Creating your Ideal Housing

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From Product Idea to a Thriving Business

Marie-Louise Anthonissen

77 episodes

1 week ago

Providing product-entrepreneurs and business leaders with practical tips on your product development journey. Turn your great ideas into profitable products and build a successful business that allows you to do what you’re most passionate about, create product lines that excite your customers. In each episode you’ll get tips for practical templates, step-by-step action plans, and mitigation tactics to overcome the hiccups you encounter when developing new products. You can apply what you learn immediately in your daily product-based business.

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Tooling Tips for Product Entrepreneurs: Creating your Ideal Housing

From Product Idea to a Thriving Business

14 minutes 54 seconds

1 year ago

Tooling Tips for Product Entrepreneurs: Creating your Ideal Housing

Mastering Tooling for Successful Product Development

This episode explores the complexities and critical aspects of tooling in product development, with a focus on plastic and metal housings for electronics, skincare products, and supplements. It discusses selecting appropriate materials, ensuring compliance with health regulations, and managing the entire process from design to manufacturing. Listeners will gain insights into evaluating first tooling samples, addressing defects, and ensuring production precision to save costs and achieve high-quality outputs. The crucial importance of clear contracts for tooling ownership and financial considerations is emphasized, along with tips on managing lead times and mass production logistics. Practical advice and a case study on a baby monitor project illustrate how to navigate these challenges for a successful product launch.

00:00 Introduction to Tooling and Housing

00:46 Understanding Tooling and Housing Materials

01:33 Regulations and Specifications

02:43 Case Study: Baby Monitor Development

04:26 Designing and Engineering Your Product

05:05 Evaluating First Out of Tools

05:24 Common Defects in Injection Molding

06:25 Inspecting and Assembling Parts

07:17 Creating a Detailed Tooling List

07:44 Importance of Precise Feedback

08:15 Handling Tooling Samples

09:02 Celebrating Tooling Milestones

09:48 Tooling Ownership and Contracts

10:25 Financial Arrangements for Tooling

10:53 Tooling Lead Time and Production Planning

12:34 Choosing the Right Product Designer

13:24 Final Thoughts and Best Wishes

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