Industrial deign – Taiwan the Heart of Asia, the Island Country of Hardware Innovation.

From 0 to 1 to mass-production

In this video, you will realize how a hardware product was made. Everything starts from a sketch in very beginning. In this stage, the ID means industrial designer will help you to build a sexy outlook for your product. They use professional skill to develop hundreds of sketches and building some potential ideas into 3D using software e.g. Alias, Rhino, CREO, SOLIDWORKS….and Keyshot or V-Ray are for real-time rendering.

From Product Design to Working Prototype

When industrial design lock-down, the ME guy mechanical engineer starts to develop mechanism for all parts. This is for next stage to make prototypes for POC, Proof of Concept or production molds.

Another key route is EE, electrical engineer will create circuit diagram, PCB layout. In the end, using SMT facility to put all electronic components onto PCB to produce PCB assembly.

Now you have plastic enclosures made by CNC-made, and you have PCB assembly. This is the first time you can put all parts together into a working prototype. So far, you already achieved from 0 to 1 from rough concept all the way to physical working prototype. Now it’s the time to relax? Not yet, you are still far away from success.

Expanding Your Funding and Orders Using Working Prototype

Once you hold a working prototype in hand, you can go to crowdfunding to get more funding, hold a meeting with angels or venture capital or knock door to retail channels for volume orders. As a team leader, these are what you should focus at this moment, not sit down and enjoy a tea-time.

If you are lucky, dragging lots of attention from VC or Kickstarter now you have money and orders. You are preparing to go to next level: mass-production. But your nightmare is also coming to negotiate/cooperate with single factory or the whole supply-chain. We will leave this critical issue to later chapters to talk about.

Mass-production is a form of art. Accompanying along with technology, science, statistic or even negotiation power. Let’s temporarily assumed the FedEx plane already loading your quality products and take off from the airport. So far you have earned your first barrel of golds.