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For nearly four decades, the International Forum on DFMA has brought together design engineers, cost analysts, and manufacturing leaders to share real-world results in product simplification and cost reduction. Speakers from companies like Boeing, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon, Kohler, and Endress+Hauser have presented case studies, implementation strategies, and hard savings numbers.
The 2025 Forum covered product simplification, DFA indexing, tolerance analysis, DFMA culture-building, should-costing workflows, and a hands-on training session with live software demos. All sessions are now available to watch for free.
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Hands-on DFMA training with live software demo, DFA index integration with PFMEA (CNH Industrial), tolerance synthesis CAD toolbox (Flanders Make), 45 years of DFMA lessons learned, and design simplification as innovation engineering.
GHSP's company-wide DFMA transformation, extending DFMA beyond product development to capital investment projects (ARGO-EFESO), and concurrent engineering as the path to competitiveness.
The first virtual DFMA Forum. Full recording available free on YouTube.
Johnson & Johnson on building a workshop-oriented DFMA process, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics on supplier costing for low-volume medical devices, plus talks from L3 Technologies, Kohler, Endress+Hauser, and Renishaw.
BAIC achieved 67% part count reduction on a vehicle frame. Endress+Hauser reported $10M in savings across seven redesigned projects. Raytheon shared 31% average cost savings across 500 products. Renishaw presented generative design for additive manufacturing.
Featured panel: "The Bold Look of DFMA at Kohler" with five Kohler engineers. Additional talks on benchmarking (Dell), Lean manufacturing (Hypertherm), internal collaboration (Raytheon), and DFM for additive manufacturing.
Woodward shared how data-driven cost models cut their RFQ-to-PO cycle in half through open-book supplier collaboration. Presenters from Boeing, Medtronic, Kohler, and Dynisco.
Papers and presentations from the 30th annual DFMA Forum.
Keynote by Lean author Richard Schonberger. Boeing's Dr. Alfredo Herrera on the AH-64D Apache Helicopter. Pre-conference VE + DFMA workshop led by James Bolton of Whirlpool and SAVE International. Talks from Dynisco and Jabil Circuit.
Unlocking profits in product design. Speakers from Motorola Solutions, AB SCIEX, ITT Aerospace Controls, Westinghouse, Dynisco, and Whirlpool.
Papers and presentations from the 27th annual DFMA Forum.
DFMA Supporter of the Year Award — Since 2006, this award has recognized individuals whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of DFMA. The 2025 recipient is Balaji G of D-ESPAT Pvt Ltd. See all past winners →
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