Sofeast’s CEO Renaud Anjoran is joined by two guests, Clive Greenwood and Andrew Wilson of WWMG associates to discuss the topic of liability for product safety issues. There’s commonly a disconnect between Chinese manufacturers and their foreign customers over who is liable for any problems, such as consumer injury, caused by the products that they worked on. It depends on a number of things, such as who has the design authority and who issues the design specifications, etc.
If you are importing products you really need to have a handle on liability, as the consequences could be extremely costly and uncomfortable.
The panel aim to get to the bottom of it here…
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Episode sections
- 00:00 – Introduction.
- 01:26 – When an American company, for example, works with a Chinese manufacturer to develop a new product, what do they expect the manufacturer to tell them?
- 05:00 – Product liability laws in the US & EU.
- 07:53 – How ‘design authority’ can be used to attribute liability.
- 12:09 – Post-DFMEA liability.
- 15:43 – Why letting your Chinese manufacturer ‘help’ develop a product could be a big mistake.
- 21:13 – Compliance for medical devices/products.
- 24:01 – Action items for companies who’re designing a general consumer product to be manufactured in China.
- 31:58 – Product safety. What do we need to consider?
- 38:29 – Conclusion.
- 40:49 – Wrapping up.
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