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Now, let's continue to our next blog series, which will focus on business systems. Business systems are critical for supporting agile product realization, optimizing your processes, meeting regulatory compliance, and scaling your business. So let's explore business systems strategies, flows, usage throughout the product life cycle, and tips for success.

As part of PRG's Ask the Expert series, Michael Keer answers how to overcome the challenge of ad-hoc design, which we see in many products.

Now, let's dive into our next blog piece, where we'll uncover the world of mechanical tooling options that will support your product's successful development and scale-up into high-volume production. We'll be exploring 3D printing, soft tooling, and hard tooling, each offering unique advantages and trade-offs. By understanding these differences, you'll be empowered to make better informed [...]

Transitioning from engineering and beta units to high volume production involves finding a contract manufacturer (CM) as well as sub-tier volume suppliers, signing a deal with the CM, and handing off the set of data and instructions to make your product. Read on to learn what to lookout for in each step in the process of scaling your product into volume manufacturing.

Shirish Joshi, PRG’s Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain expert, reports on some of the smaller electronic manufacturing services in India.

As part of PRG's Ask the Expert series, Allen Adolph and David Graham answer how supply chain issues have affected hardware product development.

Once you have engineering and beta units in hand, validation and verification can begin. In this stage, engineering teams should test your product against the engineering design specification to verify that your product meets the performance, reliability, regulatory, manufacturing test, and safety goals.

As part of PRG's Ask the Expert series, Shirish Joshi tells us what can go wrong if a formal process is not followed during the transition from prototype to manufacturing.

Manufacturing is an essential step in a new product launch that requires a thoughtful strategy. In this stage, teams define a manufacturing strategy, create a development schedule, and built units to test.

As part of PRG's Ask the Expert series, Michael Keer gives an opinion on the benefits that come from using an agile hardware development process over the more traditional waterfall process.

In the last blog post, we discussed why Design for Excellence (DfX) is important to your business. Building on several important concepts, this blog will focus on the Product Development phase and discuss how incorporating Agile principles can improve and accelerate your hardware product development process.

Design for Excellence (DfX) is a holistic approach to designing a hardware product that takes into account how the product is made at scale. In addition to understanding your manufacturing plan and target costs, there are six categories to consider: assembly, cost, manufacturing, test, service, and supply chain.