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Annual Conference

THE 2010 INTERNATIONAL FORUM on Design for Manufacture and Assembly

The Product Development Conference on DFMA Best Practices of the Fortune 1000
June 15-16, 2010 Providence Rhode Island, USA

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Previous Webinars

Are Your Product Designs Costing You Money?

Nick Dewhurst will demonstrate how DFMA can provide critical cost and assembly information early in the concept phase, or at re-design, to guide engineers in determining the most cost-effective product designs.  Nick will utilize real-world client projects to illustrate the DFMA concepts.  He will then show the use of DFMA software to baseline and redesign an anonymous everyday item he took off the shelf. The product for the demonstration will have mechanical and electrical components and is produced in large volumes, but our costing and design modules are applicable to any type or volume of mechanical or electrical product.

The demonstration will further touch on the who, what and when for successful integration of this effective tool into the product lifecycle at any company.

Originally presented September 30th 2009.

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Resurrecting U.S. Manufacturing using Systematic DFMA Deployment

A key bottom-line recession strategy is to deploy Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) in a systematic way across your company to achieve competitive success. Mike Shipulski, Director of Engineering at Hypertherm, in partnership with Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc., will demonstrate a methodology for defining the infrastructure, organization and business processes necessary to deploy DFMA—including project selection, execution, pacing/mentoring, and metrics. Using DFMA, Hypertherm was able to increase profits per square foot of factory floor space 600%, decrease service and warranty expenses 70% and cut labor 50%. Shipulski sees this kind of proven product design strategy as a key tool for U.S. manufacturing to regain its leading role in world markets. Originally presented May 7th 2009.

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DFMA 2009 - What's New

See a demonstration of the new features of DFM Concurrent Costing 2.3 and Design for Assembly 9.4. Originally presented March 18th 2009.

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DFMA Educational Webinar - Working with Suppliers

Learn how to use the details of the DFM Concurrent Costing software to reconcile quotations from outside suppliers. Originally presented December 4th 2008.

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Using DFMA to Rethink Your China Manufacturing Strategy

The lure of extremely low labor rates entices many companies to move manufacturing and assembly offshore. These companies seem very interested in reducing manufacturing costs, but many of them rarely take the time to understand all of the costs in this manufacturing strategy.

Is sending a product design overseas for manufacture really the cost-effective solution, or would your company benefit by manufacturing it here?  This webinar will try to answer this question by showing you how DFMA can be used throughout the product development cycle to understand costs as design and manufacturing decisions are being made. Originally presented Thursday, October 16, 2008.

Note: During this presentation, there is a period of three minutes where the slides do not advance, then the program resumes.  A PDF of the slides may also be downloaded from here.

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Achieve a Lean Supply Chain with DFMA

These days the supply chain is on everyone’s mind.  How can you make yours lean and cost-effective?  And what’s the best way to understand the true cost of part manufacture and team with suppliers to reduce waste?

Learn how to use Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) tools to better manage your supply chain metrics. Originally presented Thursday, July 31, 2008.

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Psst! Want a secret for getting better product cost information?

An overview of Boothroyd Dewhurst’s Design For Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) methodology and software tools.  You will learn not only how DFMA is used to gain a better understanding of cost, but also how DFMA helps to reduce the cost of manufacturing your products. Originally presented Thursday, May 15, 2008.

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