Guide for optimizing Design
What you will learn
Design for the ease of manufacturing
Optimizing Design
Integrating of parts
Reducing manufacturing cost
Description
When you design some product, assembly you have to go through the different phases of its development like identifying customer needs, concept generation, concept selection, deciding specifications, Designing the product, assembly. You need to make many decisions at every stage of product development. Sometimes the designed assembly may become unnecessarily heavy, may include unnecessary machining operations or it becomes difficult to meet the functional specifcations in time. In this course an approach for the design is explained; design for the ease of manufacturing. How General Motors redesigned it’s V6 engine’s intake manifold is explained. This redesign had great impact on different factors of development of the product. It not only saved the time but also allowed to add extra features in the manifold.
If you are in the process of designing and developing product, this course may guide you to optimize your design.
When the production volume is high a company has a strong interest in reducing the cost of the product while simultaneously enhancing its quality. Customer needs and product specifications are useful for guiding the concept phase of product development; however during the later development activities teams may often have difficulty linking needs and specifications to the specific design issues they face. For this reason many teams practice ‘Design for X’ (DFX) methodologies, where X may correspond to one of dozens of quality criteria such as reliability, robustness, serviceability, environmental impact or manufacturability. The most common of these methodologies is design for Manufacturing (DFM), which is of universal importance because it directly addresses manufacturing costs.