Getting Our Product Manufactured in China

Posted by aqiservice on September 25th, 2018

Having our pump produced in China was an interesting, and gratifying, experience.

We had actually established that we can not earn a profit with our item without discovering a method to make it for considerably much less money compared to it was costing us at the time. My companion that does the advertising had actually met a gentleman (Jerry) that was having several items made in China and offering them with U.S. as well as Canadian firms.

John was familiar with our item and thought it can really be a big seller if we might get it off the ground. Jerry had a partner, Sue, a Chinese woman who lives in Shanghai and also works with him doing converting and acting as a go between for numerous tiny manufacturing facilities.

Our item, a little pump that sets up under sinks to bring hot water fast to the component without running diluted the drainpipe, would certainly call for a motor, an injection formed pump, an electronic circuit card, and the situation. Since we had to have brand-new tooling made we wished to make some enhancements as well as adjustments to the pump at the same time.

Our old pump was a gear pump and also made a great deal of sound. We sent our old pump, a little centrifugal pump just like what we wanted to switch to, as well as a collection of drawings of what we wished to end up with. We also sent a schematic, circuit board design, and even a completely functional sample motherboard.

After about 30 to 60 days, I don't keep in mind specifically, we obtained the first set of prototypes. There were a host of troubles with the parts, and also we sent back guidelines the best ways to bring the components up to par.

For some reason the Chinese had made changes to the circuit board although we sent them an useful working example. Part of our arrangement with the Chinese maker called for the product quality to be listed with ETL labs as adhering to the UL standards for motor ran pumps. I can see that several of the spacings on the circuit card were also close together to be approved. After a pair a lot more modifications we got the motherboard issues straightened out.

Practically the exact same been true for the pump, electric motor, as well as case. They all had preliminary troubles, however after a number of tries the manufacturing facility got it right, and also we put our initial order, a sample dimension of 250 pumps.

My companion headed off to China for the first run of 500 pumps, and also it was an excellent thing he did. It took about 2 weeks, but they lastly obtained those very first 250 pumps put together and also checked. We positioned fantastic emphasis on testing. The motherboard are functionally tested prior to the pump is set up, and also each motor is tested before being assembled to the pump head. After every little thing is assembled the pump is attached to water lines and tested once more.

One of the troubles we encountered initially was trouble with translations as well as things like being able to view illustrations and obtain files to open up.

The Chinese supplier is equally as concerned as we are with quality control. He wants lots of orders and also he understands they won't come if we have quality control problems with the item.

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Despite all that testing, the real examination starts in the field. We got about 30 percent of the pumps back from that very first batch. There were a number of problems that showed up. Inadequate testing obviously. We needed to boost several of the injection built parts, make some small changes to the mold tooling, as well as do a better task of screening. The very same thing happened with the adhering to 2 tiny sets of 250 pumps, and we had actually ultimately gotten to the factor where were positive adequate to put in our very first big order ... well to us it huged ... of 1,000 pumps.