Welcome to our next installment of this meetup series: Design for Manufacturing. By this point, after hundreds of hours of hard work, you have a proper working engineering prototype in your hands and it is time to commercialize. You've arrived! You can rest confidently, knowing that all there is to do is send your prototype design files to an OEM in China, and 8 weeks later palettes of your product will arrive at customs ready to distribute...
Not exactly.
A common point of friction on the road to commercializing a new hardware product is where a motivated team reaches an illusory summit, and are holding something that looks, behaves, and feels like a finished product. The finish line is tantalizingly close, but the marathon from advanced prototype to first-off-the-line unit testing and full scale production is only beginning. Arm yourselves for the journey with wise insights from our panel of invited speakers.
6:30pm - Doors open
6:30pm to 7:00pm - Greetings, refreshments
7:00pm to 7:40pm - Speaker's presentations, Q&A
7:40pm to 7:55pm - Break
7:55pm to 8:45pm - Keynote presentation, Q&A
8:45pm to 9:15pm - Discussions, networking
9:15pm - Close
