DFMA IMPLEMENTATION WORKSHOP

These hands-on workshops help teams quickly and effectively begin to use and implement DFMA. Starting with some introductions to the DFMA techniques, and concluding with analyses of your own products, it's a perfect method to begin integration of DFMA into your company's product development process. Make your next product your first DFMA success story.

Workshop Benefits:

• Trains teams in the principles and benefits of DFMA concurrent engineering strategies
• Provides a hands-on understanding of how DFMA works in a concurrent engineering environment
• Leaves participants with a thorough understanding of the theories behind DFMA along with case-study examples of the success of these tools
• Gives team members a structured example of team use of DFMA from which to build their own programs
• Helps users realize immediate design improvements on their own company products
• Encourages design creativity, teamwork and innovation

Workshop results:

• Overall product cost
• Assembly and manufacturing efficiency
• Customer satisfaction
• Product quality and reliability
• Time-to-market launch cycles
• Number of post-release design changes
• Ease of service, repair and recycling
• Overhead requirements for design, operations and support functions

AGENDA
This is the outline of a DFMA Implementation Workshop agenda using the Boothroyd Dewhurst software tools. This is only an outline; the agenda can easily be tailored to meet your specific needs. A three day workshop is recommended when complex products will be analyzed and for developing DFM component costs resulting from DFA analysis work.

TWO DAY WORKSHOP

Day One

• Overview of DFMA.
• Introduction to the Design for Assembly methodology.
• Break.
• Design for Assembly paper exercise of a small sample product.
• Design for Assembly software introduction.
• Lunch.
• Begin Design for Assembly software analysis of your product.
• Break.
• Complete Design for Assembly benchmark analysis of your product.

Day Two

• Introduction to Design for Manufacture topics specific to your organization.
• Break.
• Begin to brainstorm ideas for redesign using Design for Assembly results from the previous days analysis.
• Lunch.
• Begin to look at Design for Manufacture analyses of your redesigns.
• Break.
• Presentation of DFMA analysis results to the group.

THREE DAY WORKSHOP

Day One

• Overview of DFMA.
• Introduction to Design for Assembly methodology.
• Break.
• Design for Assembly hand calculation.
• Lunch.
• Design for Assembly software introduction.
• Begin Design for Assembly analysis on sample product.
• Review software outputs to direct redesign efforts.
• Overview of the Operations library.

Day Two

• Begin Design for Assembly analysis of your products.
• Break.
• Use software output to begin brainstorming different redesign concepts.
• Lunch.
• Start to quantify potential for savings.
• Break.
• Introduction to DFM Concurrent Costing.

Day Three

• Complete Design for Assembly comparisons.
• Begin DFM Concurrent Costing analysis of DFA design.
• Break.
• Overview of DFM Concurrent Costing Operation library.
• Lunch.
• Wrap up before and after design comparisons.
• Presentation of DFMA results.

For more details or to schedule a workshop, please contact us.