Blog: Product Design
Making Environmental Choices in Products Easier: Insights from Intertek’s Experiences with Comparative Life Cycle Assessments
Comparative Life Cycle Assessments provide advantages to companies looking to design products that make positive environmental contributions More…
Best Practices for Manufacturing Fabric Face Masks
New ASTM Standard Establishes Requirements for Non-medical Coverings More…
Market drivers for electronics in a COVID-19 world
Considerations and innovations in hygiene, health & safety More…
Mask Assessments 101
A Guide to Requirements for Face Coverings More…
Why Did My Part Break?
A Look at the Failure Analysis and Investigation Process More…
Preparing for ROHS 2019 Compliance (Part 1 - Sourcing)
Changes to Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Effective 22 July 2019 More…
Do You Know You Know or Think You Know?
Meet the BEVL Method More…
Fuel Cell Technologies - An External Supply of Chemical Energy
Generating Electricity from an Electrochemical Reaction More…
Resting Easy
What You Should Know About Mattress Flammability Testing More…
Sitting Pretty
Assessing Furniture to BIFMA Standards More…
Pet Product Safety
Our Furry Friends Need Protection Too! More…
Evaluating Barrier Properties in Key Material Decisions
Instrumented Vs. Non-Instrumented Measurements for Water Vapor Transmission Rate Testing More…
Using Gelbo Flex Testing to Determine Flexible Material Durability
Three Parameters to Consider More…
Evolving Energy Efficiency Regulations for Commercial Refrigeration
Part 2: Impact on Processes More…
Button and Coin Cell Batteries
The big concern behind the tiny object More…
How to Create Better Products Using Consumer Insights
Using customer preferences to shape product lines More…
This Year, I Would Like...
How much of what we wish for is determined by external factors? More…
The Emotional Design Checklist
A Case Study in Coffee More…
Bringing Hidden Risks of Window Coverings to Light
October is Window Covering Safety Month More…
Quality Risks and Rewards from the Digitization and Migration of the Production Sector
What you can be doing now to prepare for disruptions More…
Grow (and Protect) your Brand with Smart Sourcing
Using performance benchmarking to educate yourself on what you are buying More…
Is that Product Safe for My Child to Use?
Gaining insight into the risks and rewards associated with the safety of juvenile products. More…
6 Novel Electrical Toy Risk Assessment Tools
Just how safe is that electronic toy? More…
Top Failures With Mobile Health Apps
As the medical device industry looks to enter the world of mobile apps, here are six common issues you should be ready to address. More…
Left-handed in a right-handed world: A Case Study in Foreseeable Use
Product design cannot simply allow for intended use, but must also take consumer behaviour into consideration. Identifying a product’s foreseeable use can be as simple as looking at who will use your product. More…
A New World: Recalls and Risk Assessments
Attitudes towards risk are changing. In this fluctuating regulatory landscape, how do you know when to start conducting a risk assessment or consider a recall? Intertek Product Intelligence and Hogan Lovells teamed up to discuss these challenges. More…
Evolving Regulations for Commercial Refrigeration Energy Efficiency
An overview of how recent, significant regulatory changes in energy efficiency and alternative refrigerants that will impact the commercial refrigeration industry. More…
Key considerations in future proofing the product safety supply chain
There are multiple considerations behind the development of a robust product safety supply strategy and here we explore the main areas when developing leading organisational assurance processes. More…
The Whole Product Package
Evaluating the entire lifespan of a package - from raw materials to packaging production and from transportation to store shelves - will produce more successful results in the protection of the product. More…
Halloween Horror Stories: Looking to the past to ensure a safe holiday
Although Halloween is intended to scare, no company wants to sell, supply or manufacture an unsafe product this holiday season. Intertek, global quality solutions provider, highlights the importance of looking to the horror stories of the past, to ensure safe consumers this Halloween. More…
How Competitive Intelligence Can Win Business
Competitive Intelligence helps to identify how your product compares to competitors and provides you with data-driven information that can be leveraged for space on retailers' shelves. More…
Designing a new product? Pitfalls and common issues.
Designing a new product? Understand the pitfalls and common issues by engaging with Intertek’s training solutions early on. More…
Benchmarking Makes a Brand
Benchmarking is about product performance. A brand that conducts a benchmarking process will be able to determine their products’ performance. More…
In Focus: Can sunshine melt cars?
Thermal evaluations are conducted on the product in question in order to evaluate risk. More…