The Hardware NPI Playbook

A practical guide to hardware NPI — concept to mass production

Thirty years ago I walked onto the production floor of a large electronics facility in Puerto Rico as a young electrical engineer. I had a degree, some theory, and almost no practical knowledge of what it actually took to build hardware at scale.

This book is the playbook I wished someone had handed me. It covers what I learned building failure analysis labs from scratch, setting up production lines in Asia, managing manufacturing partners across Southeast Asia, launching products for startups that had never built anything before, and running concurrent AI rack programs across three continents.