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

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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