MEP EP#189: Not Even My Final Form - Jeff Garoon on Industrial Product Design

Jeff Garoon

• Y-Combinator alumni from the Winter 2016 batch
• Currently serves as COO of FlowCommand
• At FlowCommand, Jeff is responsible for all hardware design, firmware development, and operations
• Spent his early career as a Production Engineer and Lead Completion Engineer at Oxy USA
• Has been on Y-Combinator’s alumni application review committee for the last 3 cohorts, has raised three rounds of financing, and manages a staff of 17 engineers
• Member of Incubate USC, where he has assisted in writing undergraduate coursework on accelerators and incubators

Industrial product design and testing

• What makes a product an industrial device?
• Prototyping Industrial Hardware
• Arduino and development boards -> First Article

What kind of regulations and certifications do you have to work with?

• How to make it work when you are bootstrapping
• Class 1 Div 1/2 Testing/validation/documentation
• Explosion Proof Devices and Construction
• Intrinsically Safe Barriers

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