What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
This is the type of stuff that trips up many Kickstarter &#x2F; crowd funded projects.<p>&quot;I have a great idea, I&#x27;ll just manufacture it in China and sell it as a product!&quot;<p>This is a great overview of the process and complexity for *one part* of the manufacturing process for bringing a product to market and almost all of them are as complex (or more) and have pitfalls of their own. Add on wiring harness mfg, PCB&#x2F;PCBA, machined parts, compliance testing, final assembly, QA testing, and revision management and then you&#x27;re about halfway to running a successful product business.<p>From personal experience, the best advice in the article is to hire a domain expert when moving into a field you aren&#x27;t intimately familiar with. Employing them for as little as a few months can help you avoid several years of very expensive lessons as you figure a new process out.