Jared Haw

Many part quality issues in plastic injection molding are blamed on the manufacturing process. In practice, the root cause is usually the design itself. If a plastic part is not designed for injection molding, the tool can’t really be blamed when defects start to pop up.  Design decisions directly affect how a part fills, cools, and ejects from the mold. When those decisions are flawed, the result is visible on the production line: warped parts, sink marks, poor surface finish, difficult...

There are multiple ways brands approach sourcing and manufacturing. Some choose to manage everything internally, sourcing individual components and handling assembly themselves. Others prefer to work with a contract manufacturing partner who can consolidate engineering, sourcing, and production under one roof. Others prefer a hybrid type of approach, which is a combination of those two previous methods.  Each strategy comes with tradeoffs in the amount of control you have, which will also...

Most quality issues that show up during production do not start on the factory floor. They start much earlier, during product development, validation steps, and process planning. When requirements are not clearly defined, risks are not identified early, or teams are not aligned, those gaps tend to surface later as delays, rework, and unexpected costs. Advanced Product Quality Planning, or APQP, is a structured framework designed to prevent these problems. Rather than reacting to quality...