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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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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 & Reliabilitypopular
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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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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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Production: A Primer for Operations, Quality, & Their Leaders
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Leading for Scale
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Proven Strategies for Collaborating with Contract Manufacturers
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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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Failure Analysis Methods for Product Design Engineers: Tools and Techniques
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Thinking Ahead: How to Evaluate New Technologies
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How to Buy Software (for Hardware Leaders who Usually Don’t)
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Adopting AI in the Aerospace and Defense Electronics Space
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Build vs Buy: A Guide to Implementing Smart Manufacturing Technology
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Leonel Leal on How Engineers Should Frame a Business Case for Innovation
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Saw through the Buzzwords
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Managed Cloud vs Self-Hosted Cloud vs On-Premises for Manufacturing Data
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AOI, Smart AOI, & Beyond: Keyence vs Cognex vs Instrumentalpopular
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Visual Inspection AI: AWS Lookout, Landing AI, & Instrumental
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Manual Inspection vs. AI Inspection with Instrumentalpopular
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Electronics Assembly Automation Tipping Points
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CTO of ASUS: Systems Integrators for Manufacturing Automation Don't Scale
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ROI-Driven Business Cases & Realized Value
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Electronics development, generally called New Product Introduction (NPI), is complex and demanding for both teams and leaders. Engineering leaders face dual challenges: managing risk across hundreds of technical and implementation details while leading the team effectively. Success isn't just about innovation; it's about delivering on time, within budget, and with quality. These competing motivators between innovation and delivery are a source of real tension in development teams, particularly between engineering and operations or execution-oriented roles.
These competing motivators between innovation and delivery are a source of real tension in development teams.
This chapter will offer a direct look into the essentials for leaders approaching electronics development -- how to build and lead a strong team, meet crucial delivery schedules, control costs and maintain quality -- drawing from the real-world experiences of seasoned peer leaders. This chapter will grow over time 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 for the benefit of others, please email us at communications@instrumental.com with your suggestion.