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Manufacturing Engineering

What if it was easier for you to be involved at the early stages of a product’s design?

What if you could conveniently provide feedback to your design engineers?

What if you could predict the manufacturing costs even before detailed design began?

DFMA software tools from Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc., make it all possible.

You can use DFMA to:

  • Estimate the labor content of a design, including sub-assemblies and individual components
  • Analyze manufacturing cell or assembly line layout
  • Provide feedback to design engineering that they can relate to (dollars, time, complexity), in a black-and-white way that keeps discussions constructive and helps you make measurable progress toward the goal of a realistic, manufacturable design

Here’s an example. You may know a part designed as a sheet metal stamping could be more cost-effectively manufactured using a different method. You want to efficiently communicate the alternatives back to the design team.

DFMA allows you to show, in both graphical and tabular form, the different costs associated with different manufacturing processes and materials. The ensuing discussions can focus on data, rather than on opinion and hunches. You’ll be able to clearly communicate that a specific process will be the lowest-cost method.

DFMA can help you understand and quantify the impact of alternative designs on manufacturing, from the earliest stages of a product’s development.