Sourcing Your Bill of Materials: Simplifying the Process

Hello Dear Readers! My name is Yessika (simply say “Jessica”) Cerezo and I’m a Senior Project Manager at EastBridge. I’m responsible for one of our lines of business, providing newly conceived and custom components and parts to our hardware customers. What this means in practical terms is we assist customers in two different, but related […]

Sourcing Custom vs. “Made to Print” Parts

Hello everyone! This is Alfredo Garcia and, in this newsletter, I will try my best to illustrate a recurrent situation that we handle at EastBridge day in and day out, sourcing custom vs “Made to Print” parts. In addition to building complete products, one of our lines of business is supplying components, parts and subassemblies, […]

Sourcing Success in Mexico

For our regular readers. you know that at EastBridge, when it comes to sourcing and building hardware, we’re internationalists. We evaluate your product, and based on the technical requirements/specification, vendor capabilities, lead time, logistics and total delivered cost, we’ll manufacture it where it makes the most sense. We model the capability-cost pathway and jointly decide […]

Manufacturing Results, Does Anyone Have a Better Bad Idea?

In the corner of this black heart. A full deck of wild cards. Tell me, are you scared to make a bet? Are you in or are you out? With all the sins I’m thinking about. Or do you have a better bad idea? [‘Better Bad Idea’, recorded by Sunny Sweeny, Americana artist, 2017.] Following […]

Whipsawed!

“Hope for the best, expect the worst. Some drink champagne, some die of thirst. No way of knowing which way it’s going. Hope for the best, expect the worst!” Who knew that Mel Brooks, the esteemed actor, comedian, filmmaker and songwriter, has a side business advising clients on manufacturing strategy and international trade? But not […]

The Three Moments of Truth of NPD

Folks, When I was doing new product development in the corporate world, my colleagues and I had abundant resources to play with. This included “IPOs” or International Procurement Offices, which were in the world’s manufacturing centers. We designed a new product in Illinois and then handed it off to the IPO team in Hong Kong, […]

Five Points that Bridge the Gap Between 3D Printing and a Production Ready Design

Folks, At EastBridge, our engineers rely on our 3D printers to produce models and early-stage prototypes for emerging new products. The ability to quickly spin out parts with an ever-growing range of resins and metals allows us to quickly iterate and develop proof of concept. Not having to commit to diecasting or injection molding tooling […]

3,000 Factories and Counting…

Folks, I became an engineer because I like building things, specifically, physical products. In my work at EastBridge, I have the privilege to influence and guide the development and manufacturing of countless new cool products. I have the best job in the world, at least for me! When I was a senior process engineer (a […]

The Chaos Wrought by Expertise

Folks, Every industrialization project that we’ve worked on includes a corps of service providers. The disciplines represented can include industrial design, branding, engineering, regulatory, legal, packaging, manufacturing, laboratory testing services, logistics and many others. The specialized (and at times uncommon) knowledge represented by these professionals is foundational to the success of the project and product. […]

Hard to Build (and sometimes) Easy to Break

Folks, Yes, I know – it’s been a while since our last post. The last six months have been extraordinarily busy at EastBridge. I’m back on track now to send out monthly updates. The Cowboy Junkies are a difficult to classify alt country band from Ontario, Canada. They’ve been making beautiful and evocative music since […]