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NPI: A How To Guide for Engineers & Their Leaders
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Leading from the Front
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Screws & Glue: Getting Stuff Done
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Choosing the best CAD software for product design
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Screws vs Glues in Design, Assembly, & Repair
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Best Practices for Glue in Electronics
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A Practical Guide to Magnets
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Inspection 101: Measurements
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A Primer on Color Matching
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OK2Fly Checklists
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Developing Your Reliability Test Suite
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Guide to DOEs (Design of Experiments)
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Ten Chinese phrases for your next build
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NPI Processes & Workflows
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Unlike new product development, which at times can be options, electronics production is a daily operation that impacts the top-line revenue for the organization. Replicating and bringing up lines, keeping them up, and optimizing their performance is a daily battle for operations leaders. When you're leading for scale, you're never too far from a crisis -- one late shipment or one sick operator and you could spend the rest of the quarter chasing your quarterly commitment.
This chapter will offer a direct look into the essentials for operations, quality, and manufacturing leaders -- how to select the right manufacturing partners, how to avoid a crisis and what to do if you find yourself in one, how to optimize your manufacturing process to deliver margin improvements, drawing from the real-world experiences of seasoned peer leaders. This chapter will grow as we meet and interview leaders with stories about the hard-won lessons that shape how they lead.
If you are interested in contributing or would like to nominate a phenomenal leader with lessons to contribute to benefit others, please email us at communications@instrumental.com with your suggestion.