From Prototype to Production: 10 Steps Most Product Creators Miss

What you'll get

John Teel of Predictable Designs, a firm that sells product-development help, lists ten steps between a working prototype and a production run, with chapters on freezing the design, design for manufacturing, supply chain choices, testing for scale, regulatory compliance, test fixtures and production validation. Some steps lean toward electronics, such as firmware and reliability testing, so skip those if you make a mechanical product and use the rest as a checklist of what to finish before you pay a factory a deposit.