Manufacturing
Year Zero: Moving Forward With Matter
Ended soon This month’s launch event for the Matter interoperability standard was an undeniable high point in the nearly 50-year history of the smart home. Through…
BOM Costing Review
Ended soon BOM Costing Review – Confidential Case Study Better Sourcing = Better Business Our (NDA-covered) client produces a finished goods, “tablet-like” product that is sold…
Raising the Batting Average In Product Development
Ended soon Results are most of what matters in business, and at bluesalve, positive results are the focus of all our experience and expertise. Unfortunately, the…
Supply Chain Strategist: Resiliency In Abnormal Times
Ended soon While the pandemic’s effects on the supply chain are only about 18 months old, it’s been an eternity for companies caught in the middle,…
Supply Chain Pains – Shortages, delays, and gouges
Ended soon Supply Chain Pains: Vendor Blues As shortages, delays and gouges reverberate throughout the supply chain, many companies that sell physical products are stuck in…
The Chips Are Down. Now What?
Ended soon There often comes a moment in business, as in life, where something that’s long been taken for granted suddenly isn’t. The worldwide shortage of…
Don’t Be Reactionary to Supply Chain Issues
Ended soon Back in the early days of the Internet, I gained a modest following for putting forth the idea that when it comes to working…
How Products Are Made, Part Three — Validation and Production
Ended soon September 21, 2020 – Copper Magazine, Issue 120 article, written by Robert Heiblim In Part One and Part Two of this series (Issue 115…
How Products Are Made, Part 2: The Design Process
Ended soon August 10, 2020 – Copper Magazine, Issue 117 article, written by Robert Heiblim In our first installment of this series we looked at the…
How Products Are Made, Part One: Initiation
Ended soon We audio people often discuss products of all sorts, whether audio components, music media, accessories and so on, but do we really know much…