DFMA® Services

The primary goal at Boothroyd Dewhurst is helping our customers achieve immediate results from DFMA® while establishing a durable internal DFMA capability for the long term.

Service Objectives

• Train teams in DFMA® principles and the benefits of concurrent engineering.
• Realize immediate design improvements on your own company products.
• Encourage design creativity, teamwork, and innovation.
• Establish a long-term capability to develop profitable products that get to market quickly.
• Integrate DFMA® into your overall product development process.

Leadership

Chris Tsai, Director of Implementation Services

Chris has over 35 years of engineering, change management, and leadership experience—most of it in digital product design and manufacturing operations at Eastman Kodak across copiers, scanners, consumer digital, professional imaging, and health imaging. He has served in product & tooling design, manufacturing engineering, project management, quality management, and globalization.

Early in his career, as part of an NPD process reengineering effort, he became a corporate SME in Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) and DFMA®, later expanding into Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt; instructor & mentor). He has developed and delivered corporate training and certification programs worldwide.

As Director of DFMA® Implementation Services, Chris partners with BDI customers to establish internal competency, enable culture change, and apply DFMA® on key projects.

Flagship Workshops & Training

DFMA® Implementation Workshop

These hands-on workshops help teams quickly and effectively begin to use and implement DFMA® Product Costing and Simplification. Starting with an introduction to the DFMA® methodology and 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 and cost reduction process.

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DFMA® Core Training

Boothroyd Dewhurst has developed the DFMA® Core Training course to cover the basic requirements needed to successfully analyze product designs using the Boothroyd Dewhurst methodology. Using BDI’s Design for Manufacture and Assembly software, emphasis is placed on using the DFMA® design philosophy in the design and redesign process. Hands on time with the software tools is maximized in this course.

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Design for Value Workshop

DFMA® is viewed by many as a VAVE technique. A key input to any VAVE effort is sound, credible Voice of the Customer. This workshop integrates these three techniques together into a more complete set of product development and productivity improvement practices and applies them on your project(s).

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Additional Consulting Services

DFMA® Guided Analysis Workshop

A focused multi-day event designed to help an organization understand how DFMA® can apply to its business. Our DFMA® expert will facilitate your team through a DFMA® analysis of one of your products, including redesign brainstorming and quantification of redesign concepts.

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Process Development & DFMA® Deployment

Integration of DFMA® into your company’s “standard work”. Our Lean Six Sigma consultants can evaluate your company practices and work with your process excellence leaders to integrate DFMA® into existing corporate processes.

Competitive Product Assessment

Utilize DFMA® to assess and compare competitive product(s) in a structured, objective way. Generate key competitive landscape data to aid product planning and development.

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