Design for Manufacturing DFMA – Design efficiency from the beginning

Course Topic: Product development methodologies – Design Methods

Target Audience:

• Designers
• Research & Development
• Portfolio Managers
• Production Planners
• Program Managers
• Project Managers and Project Leaders
• Number of participants: 4 - 10

Duration:

• 8 hours:
• 2 sessions (4 hours each)

Language:

• English

Training Outcomes:

• Use this effective methodology as a tool for anticipating risks and mistakes during product development preventing problems in the life cycle
• Apply the Design FMEA tool in the correct context

Training Contents

• Fewer Components, Less Connections
• Product Design and DFMA
• The 3 Key Questions to Reduce the Number of Parts
• Trimming for component aggregation modifying functions
• The role of symmetry, how to calculate it
• Estimating the ideal manual assembly time and its costs from the geometric characteristics of the components
• The DFA index
• How to reduce assembly time by intervening on part geometry
• Automatic assembly, peculiar features
• Estimating the cost of automatic assembly from the geometric characteristics of the parts
• Reduce the variety of parts and processes - Standardize
• Simplify assemblies
• Facilitating handling
• The role of gravity and "top down" assemblies
• What makes a part difficult to assemble?
• Simplifying Methods Design for manufacturing
• General Principles
• Choosing the optimal combination of material and production process, selection matrices
• Parameter cost estimation techniques

• Exercises on assembly components design
• Exercises on self cases – send / present your own case to learn