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Incorporating a new major vendor into your operation is a lot of work. You have to expend a considerable amount of initial effort to train them in your systems and work out all the bugs of a new relationship. That’s why you may be tempted to overlook sloppiness or reoccurring…
If you manufacture kitchen drawers and/or cabinets, you probably spend a substantial amount of your day considering all the myriad design possibilities, materials, sizing, and capabilities of your new products in production. …But what sound does your new drawer or cabinet make when closes? In the world of cabinet and…
Establishing a strong relationship with a vendor takes a lot of work. In the beginning it’s all about educating the vendor on your processes and expectations. It may take multiple tries for a vendor to create the part you want exactly to your specifications. Additionally, you want to work with…
As a business owner, one of your greatest responsibilities is to ensure that your workplace is safe for your employees. This can sometimes be tough to do if your workplace includes a lot of heavy machinery. No doubt, you’ve put many policies in place to make sure your employees handle…
As you look forward to the new year, you are likely elbow deep in your 2016 planning. Are you a distributor considering adding new products to your product catalogue? Do you want to offer something that is used on a wide variety of products and can give you a high…
Two of the primary jobs of rubber bumper feet are to protect your product and to protect sensitive surfaces from a scratch, crack, or dent from your product. That means the bumper feet must be strong enough to hold up your product and to maintain integrity if your product is…
You have a great product that you want to get out to the world in droves. The only thing slowing you down is that your vendors can’t keep up with the appetite of your customers. You have orders pouring in, but you can’t fill them because your parts vendors are…
Plastic is such an amazing, versatile substance. Depending on what polymers are added and how the plastic it designed, it can be soft and bouncy or hard and brittle. When we design our plastic bumper feet, we recognize that clients need the bumper feet to perform in different ways depending…
When you design a sleek new product, design is everything. You need to make sure that every component matches, as if it were meant to be together. Sophisticated customers will notice if the components of your product don’t match up, especially if the color scheme is inconsistent, even for something…
Many U.S. consumers look favorably on products made in the United States and are even willing to pay slightly more if they know their money will go towards supporting jobs on their home soil. If you want to be able to proudly label your product “made in the United States,”…
