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Join us on March 18 at 10:00 AM EDT for an informative conversation about working effectively with Contract Manufacturers and Joint Design Manufacturers. PRG experts Shirish Joshi, VP of Operations Consultant, and Michael Keer, Founder and Managing Partner, join Jim Ruga, Chief Technology Officer at Fictiv, and David Barry, Senior Solutions Architect at PTC for an engaging conversation.

If you’re a hardware engineering manager or product owner, you know that the ability to manufacture and ship your product in volume to new and repeat customers depends heavily on factors outside your control. The largest of these is availability of components selected in the initial design. Components go obsolete all the time, and companies have departments set up to monitor this to be ready [...]

This chapter sets you on the path towards being ready for agile hardware product development.

This chapter concludes the discussion on applying agile methodologies to your hardware development process.

This chapter explores the first part of a practical look at how to apply agile methodologies to your hardware development process.

In this chapter, the differences between Agile Hardware and Agile Software are explored to help you apply agile techniques to a hardware development workflow.

In this chapter the effects of the market on your product are discussed, what you think is the best version of your idea may be influenced by many factors in the markets you believe you can sell it to.

In the previous chapter, the concepts of agile hardware product realization were introduced along with the idea of the ten best practices. Before diving into the details of these, there are a few basics to understand. In this chapter Product Realization will be defined at a high level as well as the ideas behind a New Product Development Introduction (sometimes written as NPDI) framework.

Last year, a staggering 78% of businesses reported using AI (Stanford AI Index). This wave of adoption is transforming every sector and hardware is no exception. Agile product realization is entering a new era, where AI has the power to accelerate, streamline, and reshape how products go from concept to market. In this series, we’ll dive into insights from the soon-to-be-released updated book [...]

We’re proud to sponsor Build Better 2025 — Instrumental’s annual summit for engineering and operations leaders building complex electronics across industries. This year’s event will be hosted aboard the historic USS Hornet in the Bay Area, and we’d love for you to join us there.

From the late 90s to the mid-2000s, I had a front-row seat to the immense global pressures facing US-based manufacturers while running operations for Paramit Corporation, a Silicon Valley high-tech manufacturing company. Despite those headwinds, we grew Paramit from $12 million to $100 million, eventually leading to a $1 billion acquisition. It was a true business and financial success story, [...]

Global supply chains have never been more complex or more costly. While many companies focus on speed and scale, they often overlook import tariffs.