Design for Manufacturing Course 2: Manufacturing Triangle
Video from Dragon Innovation. Watch on YouTube.
What you'll get
Scott Miller of Dragon Innovation, a firm that sold manufacturing services to hardware startups, introduces the manufacturing triangle of cost, quality and schedule in this 2014 class, using the first Roomba's growth from a team of about ten people to thousands of line workers to ask how a small team's knowledge reaches a factory floor far away. Hold your own product up to the triangle before you talk to a factory, so you know which of the three you would give up first.
Do this week
Rank cost, quality and schedule for your product from most to least important, write one sentence on why, and bring the ranking to your next conversation with a supplier or fabricator.