Design-for-assembly (DFA) and design-for-manufacture (DFM) techniques can be applied to products assembled manually or automatically or manufactured by specific techniques, such as machining, die ...

To get its engineers thinking about design for assembly back in the 1980s, Westinghouse made a video about a product optimized for assembly: the IBM Proprinter. The technology may be dated, but the ...

Product design risks can be mitigated through digital commissioning strategies for device design that speed continuous design ...

The design stage of a product’s life cycle is arguably one of the most crucial decision making periods, as 70 to 80 percent of the overall manufacturing cost can be projected at this stage. Engineers ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

Maximizing the competitive power of production equipment starts with product design. For example, is the product designed to be efficiently manufactured -- as well as effectively used? Product design ...

94% of all board data submitted each year has at least one error, which went undetected from when the client designed the board. Fortunately, Advanced Assembly checks every order to help catch these ...