Manufacturing and Quality Control blog

Manufacturing textiles abroad? Screen QC companies by looking for these 5 traits in your third-party fabric inspection provider and ensure high fabric quality.

Topics: Product Inspection, Textile Products

This week on Best in Manufacturing, learn about the new life of Google Glass on factory floors, how 3D printing is helping manufacturing in outer space & more!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing, 3D Printing

This week on Best in Manufacturing, get an inside look at Chinese smartphone maker Oppo's factory in Shenzhen, learn about 3d printing toys and more!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing, Globalization, 3D Printing

In this blog article, find out what you can do to monitor social compliance for garment factories and avoid common problems and consequences garment importers face.

Topics: Social Compliance, Textile Products, Auditing Factories, Working with Factories, garment importers

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!

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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!

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