This practical guide helps mechanical and electrical engineers design and manufacture quality products using DFX (design for excellence). Readers will learn step by step how to apply the same knowledge-based techniques that improve manufacturability to optimize a product's quality and reliability, safety, serviceability, user friendliness, environmental friendliness, and short time-to-market design. Presenting actual case studies of successful DFX implementation, the book shows how a well-managed program can maximize desirable characteristics in a product's design while reducing manufacturing costs, resulting in a superior, globally competitive product.
Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
•Part I. Background and Basic Concepts
1. The Forerunner - Design for Manufacturability
2. DFX - The Need for it and the Nature of it
3. DFM/DFX Approaches
4. Basic Principles of DFM/DFX
•Part II. Managing DFM/DFX
5. The Product Realization Process
6. Getting Started
7. Concurrent Engineering
8. Cultural Change
9. Managing the New System
10. Training and Indoctrination
11. Evaluating Proposals Design
•Part III. The Dimensions of DFX
12. Improving Assemblies
13. Improving Individual Components
14. Designing for Higher Quality
15. Designing for Reliability
16. Designing for Serviceability/Maintainability
17. Designing for Safety
18. Designing for the Environment
19. Designing for User-Friendliness
20. Designing for Short Time-to-Market
21. DFX in Electronics
22. DFX for Low-Quantity Production
•Part IV. DFX at Work
23. Some Success Stories
24. The Future of DFX
• Summary
Index
• About the Author