Process Spotlight: Injection Molding
Injection molding is the most common way to form a variety of plastics for mass production. In a nutshell, heated liquid plastic is squeezed into a mold cavity and then cooled to shape. The cavity is created using a two-piece mold, although more movable parts can be employed for more complex designs. Our injection molding [...]
Here’s the Review of the Cash Flow Chart: First Manufacturing Run Notice, so far none of the outputs have been cash! To do things right, you need to be able to make these investments and THEN have money available to produce the first manufacturing run which won’t really start selling for many months after you [...]
The Games Factories Play
With the widespread use of electronic information, importing and exporting is much easier than before. You can buy anything you want even without any local company or agent. However, there are also a lot of tricks factories have got up their sleeve.To be fair, most Chinese suppliers are trustworthy most of the time. However, some [...]
If you are just getting started on a new product as an individual and planning on bootstrapping it, the most important decisions you will make will be about how you spend your money. The great news is that new technologies are creating new avenues to the same results with vast savings. There has never been [...]
You’re in China, you just had a sausage Mcmuffin from McDonald’s for breakfast and you’re sipping on your venti latte at Starbucks enjoying their free wireless internet on a casual Saturday morning. You finally have a little downtime to get to the facebook posts you’ve been sorely neglecting. You type in the url and, “WHAT?!”, [...]
Thoughts on Religion in China
Hey everyone, here’s another article by my coworker Leo on spirituality in China. Tanning on the Roof My housemate in Berkeley once told me that if possible, she would tan on the roof of our apartment building every day. Although NorCal weather would never allow her to do so, I still inquired why and found [...]
What I’m going to give you here is the secret sauce because, well, frankly, I believe that the more you know about what it takes to get quality products made in China, the more you will value our services. At this point, let’s say you have the engineering package: your drawings, specifications, some prototypes.… You’re [...]
This month’s product spotlight goes out to Tal Soltz and her bkr glass water bottle. Tal and co-founder Kate Cutler created bkr with the inspiration of modern art, design and high fashion and because they think green products should be creative and beautiful. The bottle is made from glass because glass is the ultimate green [...]
So, you’ve worked hard, you’ve created some solid drawings with an engineer, you have a beautiful prototype. You’re ready to go, right? WRONG! The most important part of the development process seems to always get the least attention. In order to know what you going to be making in the factory exactly, you must specify [...]
The Chinese Dream and the American Dream
I’ve read an article about the Chinese dream in an American’s eyes. He is a teacher of a Chinese school, so he has a lot of chance to discuss with his Chinese students and talk about their dream. In his article, he mentioned that “The notion of an American Dream says all people have the [...]
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