Manufacturing insights

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Folks, It’s become sort of voguish to mark consumer product packaging with descriptions such as “Proudly Designed in Silicon Valley” and “Thoughtfully Assembled in the USA”. While the written words may be (technically) true, they’re no substitute for properly listing the Country of Origin (“COO”) on the product and/or package. Mess up on this and […]

Folks, My wife is a special education teacher for primary school kids, and her job is extraordinarily more difficult than anything you or I do. We were recently at one of her work social events and I overheard something about The Zone of Proximal Development. I learned that this is Lev Vygotsky’s theory of learning […]

Folks, When I was a young engineer, my first position was in the printed circuit board industry. [And thank you to the Emello family for giving me my start! Back then, I didn’t appreciate the enduring value of having to do every job in the plant. IThat job gave me an “Industrial PhD” that continues […]