Manufacturing and Quality Control blog

This week on Best in Manufacturing, learn about a free new calculator for estimating sourcing costs, hardware startups' biggest competitors in Shenzhen & more!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing, Sourcing, Working with Factories

Factory QC, full-time inspectors, personally inspecting goods or using a third-party QC company: What's your choice for quality control inspection for garments?

Topics: Product Inspection, Textile Products

This week on Best in Manufacturing, find out why product design is just as important as selecting a supplier, how to fight copycat manufacturing and more!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing

The last thing garment importers want is for their products to not fit as intended. Follow these 5 steps to garment inspection to avoid quality issues!

Topics: Product Inspection, Textile Products, Legal Requirements, Packaging

This week on Best in Manufacturing, learn about how automation is an impending threat to Asia's move up the economic ladder, rising labor disputes in China and more!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing, Globalization, 3D Printing

This week on Best in Manufacturing, learn about advances in wireless electricity for use in manufacturing, how China uses foreign inputs for exports, slowing wage increases in China, manufacturer sentiment for moving out of China and the fight of some Chinese families against chemically polluting factories!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing

This 3-minute video guides you through how QC inspectors use a QC checklist to check products and explains how clarifying requirements can help you avoid quality issues!

Topics: Product Inspection, Quality Control Checklist

This week on Best in Manufacturing, get advice on selecting a manufacturing partner, learn about business opportunities in the Philippines, a joint Hong Kong and Shenzhen tech park, printable electronics & the difficulties of manufacturing bikes in the U.S.!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing, Sourcing, Working with Factories

Discover the value of quality control inspection when conducted at various times in production! And find out when it’s best for you to identify product defects!

Topics: Product Inspection

This week on Best in Manufacturing, learn about one brand's ethical focus in China, Shanghai's renewed focus on manufacturing, what Trump's Paris Accords decision means for manufacturing, circular supply chains & Chinese factories opening in the U.S.!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing