161: Build a Manufacturing Facility for Your New Product

Noah is a Vice President at Graff Pinkert, an 80-year-old manufacturing machinery dealer that buys and sells used equipment all over the world, with a central warehouse in the USA. Noah is also the host of the Swarfcast Podcast, a show all about manufacturing machinery and tool machining. Today, Noah will share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can consider starting your own product facility locally to produce your product, and what to think about when buying used equipment for your production facility. Today you will hear us talk about: Manufacturing equipment for products More hardware startups have called about buying machinery than ever before. You can use machinery to manufacture other products to help reduce the cost of buying the machinery yourself, so you can use it partly for your own product, but also for  Use the machine to learn how to improve both your manufacturing and the quality of your product. It’s important to know the caliber of machine that you need based on the part that you need. Look for the best support on the machinery you are buying, that is the priority when it comes to machinery suppliers Re-shoring is happening, product startups are trying to bring more products at home than ever before You have a lot of control of your product when you manufacture it yourself. EPISODE LINKS: Noah Graff Links: LinkedIn | Website | Swarfcast Podcast The Product Startup Podcast Links: https://www.ProductStartup.com/ Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook Page | Facebook Group | Pinterest | Twitter | YouTube PTC Links: https://www.ptc.com/ OnShape | Creo Mako Design Links: https://www.makodesign.com/ YouTube | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter Kevin Mako Links: Instagram | LinkedIn | Quora | Facebook | Twitter Partner: PTC’s best-in-class software solutions Onshape: The only cloud-native product development platform that delivers full-featured computer-aided design (CAD), integrated product data management (PDM) and enterprise analytics in a single system, and Creo: 3D CAD solution that provides designers with the most innovative tools to build better products faster, such as generative design, additive manufacturing, real-time simulation, IIoT, and augmented reality. Producer: MAKO Design + Invent is the original firm providing world-class consumer product development services tailored to startups, small manufacturers, and inventors. Simply put, we are the leading one-stop-shop for developing your physical product from idea to store shelves, all in a high-quality, cost-effective, and timely manner. We operate as one powerhouse 30-person product design team spread across 4 offices to serve you (Austin, Miami, San Francisco, & Toronto). We have full-stack in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, patent referral, prototyping, and manufacturing services. To assist our startup and inventor clients, in addition to above, we help with business strategy, product strategy, marketing, and sales/distribution for all consumer product categories.