Suppose you have designed a brand-new product with many improved features that well help create a much better customer experience. Now you must ensure that it’s manufactured according to the best quality and reliability standards so that it gets the excellent long-term reputation it deserves from potential customers.

You need to move quickly and seamlessly from research and development into mass production. To scale up production, the design team must provide the right components specifications to the suppliers, and these components specifications will be converted into “process windows” on the actual manufacturing processes.

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