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Have you designed, produced, and sold your own product?

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Has anyone here ever developed a products and sold it by yourself? If you have, share your story with us. What difficulties did you face? What should one do when it's time to sell a product?

 

And it's ok to do a little shameless promotion.

 

 

I know a lot of people here could use a few tips in this area.

 

Cabe

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    I have assisted with many designs to market, and from experience learned the hard way, here is some sage advice....

     

    Product compliance is not another inconvenient paper exercise to be rushed at the end.. get it in from day 1. Get your hands on the harmonised product specific standards to conform to essential safety requirements of the applicable directives. Sounds obvious, but you would be surprised how poorly this is understood by many engineers.

     

    This is an example I had to fix.. A finished product failed conducted a emissions test. The product housings had already been tooled and delivered, so there was NO option to re-design the housing to fit an improved AC filter. I had to redesign a sub-assembly to make room for the upgraded AC filter.

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    I have assisted with many designs to market, and from experience learned the hard way, here is some sage advice....

     

    Product compliance is not another inconvenient paper exercise to be rushed at the end.. get it in from day 1. Get your hands on the harmonised product specific standards to conform to essential safety requirements of the applicable directives. Sounds obvious, but you would be surprised how poorly this is understood by many engineers.

     

    This is an example I had to fix.. A finished product failed conducted a emissions test. The product housings had already been tooled and delivered, so there was NO option to re-design the housing to fit an improved AC filter. I had to redesign a sub-assembly to make room for the upgraded AC filter.

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