Sofeast Knowledgebase Blog

Here’s the monthly update from Sofeast’s sourcing team who has been tracking the costs of commonly used raw materials from China for the past year to help you understand where the market is right now. If you or your supplier … Continue reading →

Adrian and Renaud discuss how to plan for the handover of your innovative new product to manufacturing (with a focus on hard goods with mechanical elements and some electronic/electrical parts).  You’ll learn: What a product handover is. The drawbacks of … Continue reading →

Following on from our recent blog post Fake Kickstarter Projects: Do Crowdfunding Sites Protect Backers? where we delved into how well Kickstarter and Indiegogo protect backers from seeing products that end up not fulfilling their promises for different reasons or … Continue reading →

Renaud hosts today and welcomes guest speaker Amit Rosenthal, CEO of Proboxx, to the show and this episode’s focus is on moving your products from Asia to where they need to be via freight forwarding. They discuss how the latest … Continue reading →

Do crowdfunding sites do enough due diligence on the advertised products to ensure that backers aren’t seeing fake Kickstarter projects? The situation might surprise you. We also give some examples of how some backers try to bend the rules and … Continue reading →

Adrian and Renaud go through what makes a good QA auditing and inspection program for innovative new electro-mechanical products that will reduce risks of poor quality, reliability, and compliance issues, and detect them in time for them to be worked … Continue reading →

We regularly work with entrepreneurs and businesses who have a product idea and want to launch it on the market. Despite many years of cooperation on a huge variety of electro-mechanical products from all kinds of niches, we tend to … Continue reading →

On this episode of the China Manufacturing Decoded Podcast, Adrian hosts and is joined by Andrew, our reliability and compliance expert, from the Sofeast Group for a deep dive into electrostatic discharge (ESD) – a critical factor in electronics production … Continue reading →

Here’s the monthly update from Sofeast’s sourcing team who has been tracking the costs of commonly used raw materials from China for the past year to help you understand where the market is right now. If you or your supplier … Continue reading →

Welcome to our special 200th episode of China Manufacturing Decoded! In this episode, we discuss the impact of the Houthi Yemeni rebels’ attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, and how it may affect your shipping costs and other issues … Continue reading →