Production Processes & Workflows

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Start Here

Introduction to the Build Better Handbook

Manufacturing Term Glossary

Getting Culture Right

Jeff Lutz: Team Culture Drives Product Performancepopular

Scrappy Ways to Execute Like Applepopular

Building a Culture of Quality

Building the World's Most Reliable Products: Insights from Medical and Defense Leaders

Fear Management

NPI: A How To Guide for Engineers & Their Leaders

Leading from the Front

Marcel Tremblay: The Olympic Mindset & Engineering Leadership

Anurag Gupta: Framework to Accelerate NPI

Kyle Wiens on Why Design Repairability is Good for Business

Nathan Ackerman on NPI: Do The Hard Thing First

JDM Operational Excellence in NPI

Building the Team

Quality is Set in Development & Maintained in Production

3 Lessons from Tesla’s Former NPI Leader

Maik Duwensee: The Future of Hardware Integrity & Reliabilitypopular

Reject Fake NPI Schedules to Ship on Time

Leadership Guidance for Failure to Meet Exit Criteria

Screws & Glue: Getting Stuff Done

Choosing the best CAD software for product design

Screws vs Glues in Design, Assembly, & Repair

Best Practices for Glue in Electronics

A Practical Guide to Magnets

Inspection 101: Measurements

OK2Fly Checklists

Developing Your Reliability Test Suite

Guide to DOEs (Design of Experiments)

Ten Chinese phrases for your next build

NPI Processes & Workflows

EVT, DVT, PVT Stage Gate Definitions

Hardware Schedules are Driven by Iteration

The Shedletsky Test: 12 Requirements for NPI Programs

4 Best Practices for Generational Knowledge Building

Production: A Primer for Operations, Quality, & Their Leaders

Leading for Scale

Proven Strategies for Collaborating with Contract Manufacturers

Greg Reichow’s Manufacturing Process Performance Quadrants

8D Problem Solving: Sam Bowen Describes the Power of Stopping

Cut Costs by Getting Your Engineers in the Field

Garrett Bastable on Building Your Own Factory

Oracle Supply Chain Leader Mitigates Risk with Better Relationships

Brendan Green on Working with Manufacturers

Surviving Disaster: A Lesson in Quality from Marcy Alstott

Ship It!

Serialization for Electronics Manufacturing

Tactics to Derisk Ramp

E-Commerce Ratings Make Product Quality a Competitive Edge

Production Processes & Workflows

Failure Analysis Methods for Product Design Engineers: Finding Sources of Error

Failure Analysis Methods for Product Design Engineers: Tools and Techniques

How to Improve First Pass Yield with Instrumental

How to Identify Dark Yield

JDM Operational Excellence in Production

Thinking Ahead: How to Evaluate New Technologies

How to Buy Software (for Hardware Leaders who Usually Don’t)

Adopting AI in the Aerospace and Defense Electronics Space

Build vs Buy: A Guide to Implementing Smart Manufacturing Technology

Leonel Leal on How Engineers Should Frame a Business Case for Innovation

Saw through the Buzzwords

Managed Cloud vs Self-Hosted Cloud vs On-Premises for Manufacturing Data

AOI, Smart AOI, & Beyond: Keyence vs Cognex vs Instrumentalpopular

Visual Inspection AI: AWS Lookout, Landing AI, & Instrumental

Manual Inspection vs. AI Inspection with Instrumentalpopular

Electronics Assembly Automation Tipping Points

CTO of ASUS: Systems Integrators for Manufacturing Automation Don't Scale

ROI-Driven Business Cases & Realized Value

Building a Buying Committee

How to Buy Software (for Those Who Usually Don't)

Webinars and Live Event Recordings

Build Better 2024 Sessions On Demand

Build Better 2024 Keynote | The Next Way

The Motorola Way, the Apple Way, and the Next Way | Build Better 2024

Scaling Manufacturing: How Zero-to-One Lessons Unlock New Opportunities in Existing Operations | Build Better 2024

Design for Instrumental - Simple Design Ideas for Engineers to Get the Most from AI in NPI

Webinar | Shining Light on the Shadow Factory

Production Processes & Workflows