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LN10 Economic Design For Manufacturing

1. The lecture discusses how to design products for economical manufacturing through techniques like Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) that aim to reduce costs. 2. DFMA focuses on optimizing fabrication, assembly, testing and other manufacturing functions to lower costs while ensuring quality, reliability and customer satisfaction. 3. Both Design for Assembly (DFA) and Design for Manufacturing (DFM) techniques seek to reduce part counts, use common features and minimize complexity to cut material, labor and overhead costs. 4. Examples of DFM principles that reduce costs include making parts self-locating, self-fastening, symmetrical and modular with minimum fasteners.

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LN10 Economic Design For Manufacturing

1. The lecture discusses how to design products for economical manufacturing through techniques like Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) that aim to reduce costs. 2. DFMA focuses on optimizing fabrication, assembly, testing and other manufacturing functions to lower costs while ensuring quality, reliability and customer satisfaction. 3. Both Design for Assembly (DFA) and Design for Manufacturing (DFM) techniques seek to reduce part counts, use common features and minimize complexity to cut material, labor and overhead costs. 4. Examples of DFM principles that reduce costs include making parts self-locating, self-fastening, symmetrical and modular with minimum fasteners.

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LN10: Economic Design for

Manufacturing
EEE 452: Engineering Economics and
Management
Md. Naqib Imtiaz Hussain

Book: Strategic Management of Technological Innovation Chapter 10


Story
• Future of design
• 3D printing impacting design of the future
technologies
• Video
Lecture Outline
• How is design for manufacturing
• Infuse the following economic conditions into
design
– Save labor
– Save materials
– Have business objective in design
Cost saving
• What process can influence the most on price
quality and cycle time?
Design for Manufacturing
• Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA)
techniques to minimize product cost through
design and process improvements
• This is a process of proactively designing products
to (1) optimize all the manufacturing functions:
fabrication, assembly, test, procurement,
shipping, delivery, service, and repair, and (2)
assure the best cost, quality, reliability, regulatory
compliance, safety, time-to-market, and customer
satisfaction.
DFA and DFM

• Design for Assembly (DFA)


– concerned only with reducing product assembly cost
– minimizes number of assembly operations
– individual parts tend to be more complex in design

• Design for Manufacturing (DFM)


– concerned with reducing overall part production cost
– minimizes complexity of manufacturing operations
– uses common datum features and primary axes
The goal is to economize
• Both DFM and DFA seek to reduce material,
overhead, and labor cost.
• They both shorten the product development
cycle time.
• Both DFM and DFA seek to utilize standards to
reduce cost
Economic Design Principles
• Minimize part count
• Design parts with self-locating features
• Design parts with self-fastening features
• Minimize reorientation of parts during assembly
• Design parts for retrieval, handling, & insertion
• Emphasize ‘Top-Down’ assemblies
• Standardize parts…minimum use of fasteners.
• Encourage modular design
• Design for a base part to locate other components
• Design for component symmetry for insertion
A few DFM examples
• Provide self aligning and self locating parts
A few DFM examples
• Make easy part to insert
A few DFM examples
• Ensure visibility of handling and inserting
A few DFM examples
• Design self attaching parts
A few DFM examples
• Eliminate tangling and nesting
A few DFM examples
• Reduce handling difficulty
A few DFM examples
• Reduce handling time
• Handling Time: based on assembly process
and complexity of parts
– How many hands are required?
– Is any grasping assistance needed?
– What is the effect of part symmetry on assembly?
– Is the part easy to align/position?
A few DFM examples
• Make it mistake proof
– Cannot assemble wrong part
– Cannot omit part
– Cannot assemble part wrong way around.
A few DFM examples
• Eliminate components
A few DFM examples
• Make parts symmetrical
A few DFM examples
• Cost of fastening
A few DFM examples
• Self fastening feature
Cost vs Benefit of Manufacturing
Costs Benefits/value
Easy-to-price benefits
Easy-to-price costs
Economic – asset value, rental or sale
Economic – land, planning, design
income, normal and enhanced capital
cost, construction cost
allowances

Not-so-easy-to-price benefits
Not-so-easy to price costs Social – staff morale, comfort, etc.
Environment – pollution (emission Economic – productivity, hospital
cost), carbon cost, scenic values lost, recovery rates, savings in staff costs,
etc. etc.
Economic – operation cost, insurance Environmental – savings in energy,
cost, loss of property value, etc. emissions, reduced flooding and
damage etc
Innovation to Manufacturing
DFM vs Saving
Assignment 3
• Impact of 3D printing on economic design for
manufacturing
– 3~4 pages
– 10 independently verifiable citation
– Make solid introduction and conclusion

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