Product Snafus
It goes without saying that the economic benefits of outsourcing can be significant for large and small manufacturers alike. However, unless well-managed systems and processes are in place, the promise of outsourcing can quickly turn into a costly nightmare. Aviation giant Boeing is learning this lesson the hard way. A recent blog post in Supply [...]
If you’re reading this blog, you most likely know the vital importance—and enormous challenge—of good revision control when designing and manufacturing products. Lost in the Woods: The three things you should do to prevent revision control failures is the second installment of the Product Disaster Series and can be found in the Arena Dispatches, where [...]
Every product company has a story–one that makes you cringe just thinking about it–where something went wrong…really, really wrong. A situation that could have been avoided if only…. At Arena we hear these stories all the time. They wrench our gut and remind us of the days when we worked in manufacturing. We’ve taken these [...]
As we start the Arena blog, something else is ending—the decade. And that means best of (and worst of) lists are popping up everywhere. One of the lists that caught my eye is Laptop Magazine’s Best & Worst Gadgets of the Decade. I’m sure most of you can name the big winners—like the iPod or [...]
