Adrian and Renaud discuss how to plan for the handover of your innovative new product to manufacturing (with a focus on hard goods with mechanical elements and some electronic/electrical parts). 

You’ll learn:

• What a product handover is.
• The drawbacks of not following a structured process and how not to hand over.
• What the best practices for handover are so you can follow them to streamline your next project.

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Episode sections

• 00:00 – Greetings and introduction
• 00:50 – Who needs to hand over their product to a manufacturer and why?
• 04:22 – The WRONG way to hand over to the manufacturer.
• 09:57 – Questions about the product that need to be answered.
• 12:55 – Who will do the DFM?
• 15:32 – What can happen if you just throw designs over the wall to a manufacturer without doing a DFM review?
• 18:15 – Handover best practices.
• 35:14 – When is the handover complete?
• 37:59 – Wrapping up.

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