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Design For Manufacturing: Teaching Materials To Accompany
Design For Manufacturing: Teaching Materials To Accompany
Introduction
Development Processes and Organizations
Product Planning
Identifying Customer Needs
Product Specifications
Concept Generation
Concept Selection
Concept Testing
Product Architecture
Industrial Design
Design for Manufacturing
Prototyping
Product Development Economics
Managing Projects
Concept
System-Level
Concept
System-Level
Development
Design
Development
Design
Detail
Detail
Design
Design
Testing
Testingand
and
Refinement
Refinement
Production
Production
Ramp-Up
Ramp-Up
Components
Standard
Raw
Material
Assembly
Custom
Labor
Processing
Tooling
Equipment
and Tooling
Overhead
Support
Indirect
Allocation
Definition
Design for manufacturing (DFM) is a development
practice emphasizing manufacturing issues
throughout the product development process.
Successful DFM results in lower production cost
without sacrificing product quality.
Benefits of DFA
Lower labor costs
Other indirect benefits
Handling Time
+ Insertion Time
Assembly Time
DFM
Strategy