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

BOM Costing Review – Confidential Case Study Better Sourcing = Better Business Our (NDA-covered) client produces a finished goods, “tablet-like” product that is sold direct-to-consumer (DTC)…

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: Vendor Blues

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

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

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

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…