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MEP EP#189: Not Even My Final Form - Jeff Garoon on Industrial Product DesignJeff 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
Visit our Public Slack Channel and join the conversation in between episodes!
Show Notes
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
Visit our Public Slack Channel and join the conversation in between episodes!
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