NPI: A How To Guide for Engineers & Their Leaders
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Leading from the Front
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Marcel Tremblay: The Olympic Mindset & Engineering Leadership
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Anurag Gupta: Framework to Accelerate NPI
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Kyle Wiens on Why Design Repairability is Good for Business
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Nathan Ackerman on NPI: Do The Hard Thing First
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JDM Operational Excellence in NPI
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Building the Team
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Quality is Set in Development & Maintained in Production
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3 Lessons from Tesla’s Former NPI Leader
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Maik Duwensee: The Future of Hardware Integrity & Reliability
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Reject Fake NPI Schedules to Ship on Time
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Leadership Guidance for Failure to Meet Exit Criteria
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Screws & Glue: Getting Stuff Done
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A Primer on Color Matching
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NPI Processes & Workflows
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Production: A Primer for Operations, Quality, & Their Leaders
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Leading for Scale
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Greg Reichow’s Manufacturing Process Performance Quadrants
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8D Problem Solving: Sam Bowen Describes the Power of Stopping
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Cut Costs by Getting Your Engineers in the Field
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Garrett Bastable on Building Your Own Factory
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Oracle Supply Chain Leader Mitigates Risk with Better Relationships
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Brendan Green on Working with Manufacturers
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Surviving Disaster: A Lesson in Quality from Marcy Alstott
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Ship It!
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Production Processes & Workflows
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Thinking Ahead: How to Evaluate New Technologies
When I started working at Apple, I felt wholly unprepared.
When I started working at Apple, I felt wholly unprepared. Everything about my job, from the CAD software to the process for doing a tolerance analysis, to the "right way" to run an NPI build, had to be learned. There wasn't even a list of the jargon to translate what my coworkers were saying, and no one explained what EVT, DVT, and PVT actually meant -- I had to feel those out through multiple iterations of programs.
So when I started Instrumental with a mission to enable engineering and operations teams to build better products, one way I thought I could have an impact right away was by sharing the knowledge I'd had to learn on the job or pick up in the school of hard knocks. That's what this chapter is about -- an eclectic mix of articles about the nuts and bolts (but screws and glue is more apt, is it not?) of being an engineer building world-class electronics products.