Is it easy to process and produce something when it is small? Is it easy to produce products with simple appearance design?

In production, we usually think that the smaller the thing, the harder it is to make. Because the product itself is small in size, it requires higher precision, so the more attention should be paid during production and processing. If you are not careful or any detail is not handled well, the product will be reported. Therefore, for small products, from the perspective of a single product, the proportion of its materials is very small, and sometimes the material cost can even be ignored. However, because of the high requirements for processing equipment and high processing precision, its processing cost is often more expensive than those products that are many times larger in volume.

For products with simple appearance design, we often just look at the appearance. Indeed, if the appearance is simple and not complicated, it should be simple to process. At this time, we need to analyze the specific problem. If it is just a simple straight line cutting, it is indeed very simple in production. You just need to simply cut the materials into pieces and splice them. However, if it is a curved surface, the problem becomes complicated. If the curved surface is not processed well, the surface of the product will become very rough or uneven in appearance. Curved surfaces also have their own flatness. Only overly smooth curved surfaces can correctly restore the design itself. So many times, simple designs actually require higher production requirements.

When we produce EVA foam products, customers sometimes have questions, “We just simply dig a hole in it to put the product, how can it be so much more expensive than cross-cutting?” Customers will not understand that the time required to ensure the flatness and smoothness of the surface is far less than that of cross-cutting. Customers will only see that the one-piece molded lining is better looking than the one that is stamped and then glued, and the integrity is also better. Do we need to explain it in detail to the customer? We can explain it to the customer, but don’t try to convince the customer. Because if the customer does not suffer losses in other ways, the customer will not believe our words. They will think that everything is for sales. So what we need to do is to insist on high-quality product production, strive to improve our skills, and leave the rest to time.

The customer who had previously asked us to make a sample and then found another supplier to produce the product recently contacted us to arrange production of the product that was originally produced by someone else. We asked curiously,
— Has this product been shipped? Has the customer added an order?

— No, it is still a previous order. The last batch of goods was of poor quality and was returned. Now we have to redo it.
— The customer’s requirements are too high. Didn’t the customer sign and confirm our previous samples? How could the quality be poor? Are there new requirements? Before production, the details must be confirmed. If you produce first and then adjust, it will take more time in the end, and the effect may not be good.
— The customer did not change the requirements. We took the sample you made and confirmed it with the customer, but the product produced by another manufacturer is far worse than yours. The customer does not accept it.
— Our production schedule is a bit full recently. If it is not urgent, it may take a few days to arrange production. If there is no problem, we will arrange production.
— Please help arrange production, and we will communicate with the customer. This time I had thought I could make more money by buying from another manufacturer at a lower price, but now I have to redo it all and all my work is in vain.

We always believe that you get what you pay for. There are reasons why cheap products are cheap and reasons why expensive products are expensive. Products with different prices face different markets. If you need high-quality EVA linings for packaging, you can’t go wrong with us.

We have many customers who have confirmed the proofing, but have not placed orders. We contacted the customer to confirm that the project is real. Follow-up contact confirmed that there is no problem with the quality of the sample. But there is no order. The customized production of Dongguan EVA foam is basically concentrated in a few places. Many factories know each other, and we found that the products we proofed before have been produced in another factory.

Of course, it is the customer’s freedom to choose who to be his supplier. When the customer comes back to us for inquiry again, we still quote the customer normally. When the customer needs proofing, we also provide customers with high-quality samples as always. When chatting, we asked the customer:

— “You have shipped the products that were proofed before, what is the reason for not being able to cooperate? Would you like to share it?”

— “The main reason is that your unit price is too high compared to others!”

— “How does the quality of their production compare with ours?”

— “The quality cannot be compared with yours, but the budget is relatively low, so we can only choose the cheaper one.”

Some friends may ask, why don’t you lower the quality standards to reduce the unit price and get orders? This is a good question. As a factory, we also need more orders and more profits. However, as an enterprise with aspirations, we want to make products with better quality. While maintaining high quality, we can reduce the production cost by improving our own technology, rather than reducing the process and using low-quality raw materials.

This is a very large market. Some customers don’t care much about quality and just want to use it, but there are also customers who pursue high quality. It can only be said that the market positioning is different, and there is no right or wrong in this.

Why is the unit price of customized products relatively high? This is actually a false proposition. The unit price of a product is actually not very related to whether it is customized.
The reason why people think that the unit price of customized products is high is because they compare the unit price of customized products with that of mass-produced products. In fact, the unit price of mass-produced products in the initial proofing or sample stage is also very high compared with the later mass production. Why? This involves many aspects of production. Let me talk about a few easy-to-understand ones:

1. Product mold. If the product production requires a mold, the cost of this mold must be spread over the unit price of the product. Of course, customers can also make molds by themselves. But this cost exists and cannot be ignored;
2. Order quantity. If the order quantity is small, even if the mold is not needed, the production cost is difficult to reduce. Assuming that the order quantity is large enough, the production line can continuously produce the same product. In this case, the production cost is relatively low and the product quality can be guaranteed. Because the factory is producing the same product at the same time, it will be more familiar with the product and more aware of the production precautions, so the corresponding production efficiency is high and the product quality is good. If the order quantity is small, and it is completed in less than a day, then at this time, the production line has to be switched, and the time and cost of personnel adjustment and equipment adjustment in the middle will be large. And these are all production costs;
3. Start-up fee. If the order quantity is small, there will be a startup fee for some machines. Because the debugging of the machine will generate labor and material costs.
   . . .
   So is it possible that the unit price of customized products can also be relatively inexpensive? The answer is yes, as long as the number of customized products is large enough, the associated costs in the middle can be spread out. The reason why the price of our Yiqiang Packaging Customized EVA foam products is relatively high is nothing more than these main points. Of course, we have been optimizing our production process to provide customers with more favorable prices while ensuring quality and delivery time.

In life, we all know that you get what you pay for. But when it comes to business, you want to be cheaper than cheap? Is this possible?

The answer is “of course”, but at what cost?

First of all, we need to have a few definitions,

1. Doing business is not charity
2. Doing business is to make money, and only profitable business can last long
3. Everything has a cost
4. Cheap price means low cost
5. Labor, materials, production time… are all costs

So, what do you need to do to get cheaper goods? The answer is to reduce costs. The reduction can be labor costs, material costs, and shortening production time.

The labor cost of a city is basically fixed. If the company employs people according to legal requirements, then the labor cost should not differ too much.

For materials, in the same country, the price of materials of the same quality will not differ too much.

The production time will mainly vary due to different equipment and processes. When the industry develops to a certain extent, the equipment used for the same design may be different, and the production time will vary due to different equipment. Assuming that we use advanced equipment, the production time should be similar. In contrast, the production time of backward production equipment should be longer. Therefore, for the same product, the shorter the production time, the lower the cost.
To summarize briefly, what do we need to do now to get cheaper products? Use advanced equipment to shorten production time.
With the same process and the same equipment, what should we do if we still want to get cheaper products? Are there any places that customers can’t easily find? Materials! That’s right, using cheaper materials can significantly reduce costs. The prices of homogeneous materials should not be much different. Then use lower standard materials!
After using lower standard materials, do you still need a lower price? Then shorten the production time! How to do it? Reduce the process and reduce product details.
After that, the cost of the product will come down, and then we get a lower-quality product with worse materials and rougher production. Yes, when you only pursue cheapness, you can only get low quality.
What we do is to strike a balance between quality and cost. While ensuring the high quality of our products, we also reduce production costs. We have always used high-quality materials to ensure that the product is right from the beginning. Then we use the advanced equipment on the market to ensure fast production and stable quality. So how do we reduce costs? Optimize the production process! While ensuring quality, optimize the processing technology, not reduce, but adjust the process sequence, in the same time, under the premise of ensuring the same quality, produce more products. Yiqiang EVA foam products have been committed to providing the market with high-quality EVA foam products. Ensure that customers can get better quality products at the same price.

Many times we design and produce a very good product. But we can’t find a suitable packaging for them that can highlight its advantages. This is a very painful thing.

Our products should be liked by more people, but because of the use of unsuitable packaging, consumers lose the joy of unpacking after receiving the product because of the poor packaging. What’s worse, the product is damaged during transportation due to poor packaging, which leads to after-sales and customer complaints. This is even more loss-making.

**So why can’t we find a suitable packaging?**

1. The material is not selected correctly
2. The packaging supplier is inferior
3. The packaging manufacturer’s processing capacity is insufficient

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Since the packaging has been designed for the product, our product should have a packaging that matches it. Better protection, better display. Yiqiang EVA Foam Packing Products may provide you with another option.