Prototype to Manufacturing, Product Startup Podcast Ep. 221
This lesson is an episode of Product Startup.
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Zipline co-founder Keenan Wyrobek tells host Kevin Mako how to tell when a design is ready for detailed production design: keep prototyping cheaply until the overall architecture stops changing, freeze it, then work side by side with your vendors and give them drawings, 3D views and a physical prototype, with a look at testing reliability with customers and making small fixes between production runs. The host's firm sells product-development consulting and Zipline builds drones, so take the sequence of steps rather than the details.
Do this week
Assemble the package you would hand a supplier today, a parts list, dimensioned drawings, photos of the prototype and a paragraph on how it is used, and list what is still missing.