Archive

Links to Articles & Resources prior to 2006

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	2005

"America’s Secret Weapon: Better Designs" - Design News (10/05)

"A less-costly fuel-cell design" - Machine Design Magazine (10/05)

"Technologies to reduce production costs" - American Machinist magazine (07/05)

"The Lawnmower Man" - The Engineer Online, (05/05)

	2004

"Using Design for Manufacture and Assembly To Meet Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System Cost Goals" Defense AT&L (11/04)

Injection Molding Magazine - "Manufacturing in China? The true cost may surprise you" (11/04)

Machine Design - "Study says Product redesign not China is the way to profitability (10/04)

Improved Product Design Practices Would Make U.S. Manufacturing More Cost Effective A Case to Consider Before Outsourcing to China

"Software Produces Better Designs" - Assembly magazine August 2004

"Simple Medicine" - Mechanical Engineering magazine August 2004

"Need to Cut Costs? Check Your Design First" - Desktop Engineering magazine September 2004

	2003

DesignFax reports on how DFMA software perks up design of water filters and coffee maker... (05/03)

Industry Week magazine selects DFM Concurrent Costing software as the technology of the year... (01/03)

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	2002

Quality Magazine looks at how Team working, DFMA and Lean Manufacturing techniques helped Raytheon Systems...(10/02)

Industry Week tells of Harley-Davidson's design-cost management strategy being enterprise wide and leveraging supplier relationships... (09/02)

Design for manufacture - Ever since the first caveman knocked corners off a tablet of stone, to make the ride a little smoother, design for manufacture has been an implicit part of the whole design process... Login Required (03/02)

Software to cut cost of purchased parts at Deere - Deere has purchased a corporate license for Design for Manufacture and Assembly software to reduce the cost of purchased parts in the company's major equipment divisions (01/02)

	2001

John Deere Selects Boothroyd Dewhurst's Software - tenlinks.com, the technical portal confirms John Deere's selection of DFMA software (12/01)

Fast cost estimating helps drive Harley. Design News article shows how accurately identifying costs early means Harley eases design and assembly, and balances profit and performance... (07/01)

Design smart, for manufacturability. Design News Online article citing how DFM can mean enormous cost savings, reduction of excessive parts, better assembly techniques, and a positive effect on employee ergonomics. (12/01)

Complex design problems vanish with DFMA. Medical Design News reports on how . A key to designing successful products often lies in simplifying assemblies and integrating parts to make them more functional, elegant, and cost effective. This is particularly true for medical products... (02/01)

"Virtual Engineering " Design for Assembly version 9.0 editorial in Design Engineering magazine (01/01) 

	2000

Injection Molding magazine article considers that there is no such part as a trivial part with Compaq engineers...(10/00)

Appliance Manufacturer article "Speeding to Market At the Molecular Level" cites how the Canadian MDS SCIEX to keep pace with market demand for their product, a mass spectrometer (09/00)

MCAD Vision article on how DFM/A promises to cut manufacturing costs and streamline assembly operations, and asks what exactly does it involve and how can you apply it effectively in your organization... (09/00)

Design Fax Online published details of Whirlpool's recipe for Lean Cuisine.   The implementation and application of DFA at Whirlpool Europe's Oven facility in Sweden... (07/00)

Medical Equipment Designer published details of Whirlpool's recipe for Lean Cuisine.   The implementation and application of DFA at Whirlpool's facility in Sweden... (07/00)

Design News Online conducted an interview with Geoffrey Boothroyd  - questions and responses... (07/00)

Design News Online editorial for its Design for Manufacturing and Assembly features on the theme of "Assembly made easy"... (07/00)

Assembly magazine online reports on how Agilent Technologies saved production costs by reducing the number of fasteners needed to assemble a data acquisition box... (07/00)

Design News Online reports on how design for assembly makes plastics work for automakers and how GE Plastics used DFMA software and cross-functional engineering to deliver simpler designs and faster assembly techniques... (07/00)

Military & Aerospace Electronics Magazine article looked at how Raytheon worked on the LRAS3...

Boothroyd Dewhurst hosted the 2000 International Forum on Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA). (06/00)

Assembly magazine reports on how Dell Computers redesigned one of its products -  the Optiframe PC chassis... (06/00)

OEM Off-Highway article "Too Many Pieces" (~5.5Mb PDF download!) (05/00)

Product Design & Development case study of DFE at Electrolux, titled "Its Not Easy Being Green"... (0500)

Product Design and Development article "How To Estimate Your Costs" looks at how new software tools can make it possible for engineers to select the best materials and processes for a part... (0400)

Product Design and Development magazine reported how engineers at Compaq used DFM software to cut hundreds of thousands of dollars off the cost of a grommet used in a new high-end server... (0400)

CADence feature topic in an article titled "Design for Manufacturability and Assembly: An overview of DFMA and how it can help your production cycle" (0300)

CAE Magazine online reports on how Dell Computers chose to redesign one of its products -   the Optiframe S, L, M, and MT PC chassis and netted millions of dollars... (0200)

Design News Online general article giving guidance on shortening the design cycle to design products ever faster... (0200)

Best Manufacturing Practice site states that Computing Devices International (General Dynamics Information Systems) incorporates DFMA into its Producibility Design Rules (0200)

Article "Speeding to Market At The Molecular Level" published in Appliance Manufacturer (10/00)

Injection Molding magazine feature article "No Such Thing As A Trivial Part" (10/00)

BDI compiled results from 117 product-design case studies submitted by 56 manufacturers over the past 15 years. The case studies report that companies in a range of industries, including aerospace, transportation, computer, medical and telecommunications, have substantially reduced product costs by utilising DFMA strategies and software during design engineering (0400)

Design News DFMA Supplement. "Design for Assembly makes plastics work for automakers" (0700) p.3-6.

Design News DFMA Supplement. Geoffrey Boothroyd interview article titled "DFMA Means Designing It Right the First Time" (0700) p. 48.

Designfax. Article titled "Leaner Cuisine" looked at Whirlpool's use of DFMA on its appliances (0700) p.16-18.

Medical Equipment Designer. Article titled "Leaner Cuisine" looked at Whirlpool's use of DFMA on its appliances (0700) p.16-18.

Military & Aerospace Electronics article titled "Raytheon saves money on custom enclosure with DFMA Tools" (0600) p.28.

OEM Off-Highway article titled "Too many pieces" on DFMA (0500) p.26-31.

Product Design & Development case study of DFE at Electrolux, titled "Its Not Easy Being Green". (0500) p.66.

Design Product News featured in MDS SCIEX case study titled "Speeding to market at the molecular level with DFMA" (0300) p.45.

Mass High Tech article featured DFE software in article titled "URI Profs clean up at electronics design" (0300) p.26.

CADence feature topic in an article titled "Design for Manufacturability and Assembly: An overview of DFMA and how it can help your production cycle" (0300)

Injection Molding Magazine overview feature titled "Software trips the light fantastic" on DFM Concurrent Costing software (0300) p.76-84.

Design News. The role of DFMA in reducing time to market addressed by in an overview article, "10 Challenges for the Decade", (0200) p.67-71.

CAE published details of Dell Computer case study in an article titled "Dell Computer Builds a Framework for Success" (0200) p.10

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	1999

Lockheed Martin report on it's identification of DFMA as a key methodology to successfully implement the principles of concurrent engineering... (1299)

Design Engineering article on how DFMA forced Nortel's engineers to weed unnecessary parts out of their designs (1199)

Design News feature article "Options in design with metals" showing that design for manufacturing analyses can point the way to design efficiencies... (1199)

ASME's Mechanical Engineering journal looks at how DFM and rapid prototyping both seek the same prize: a better product made faster... (0999)

Assembly magazine feature article on Nortel engineers lowering the cost of fibre-optic telecommunications nodes using principles of design for manufacture and assembly (0999)

Product Design and Development magazine looked at how Raytheon Systems helped the US Army keep tabs on its enemies from a safer distance... (0499)

Assembly magazine online features editorial by Geoffrey Boothroyd on how "Quality and Automation will shape design"... (0299)

Data Storage article on how Maxtor designed computer disk drives so that they are easier to assemble and repair... (0799)

ASME's Mechanical Engineering journal reports on Nortel's DFMA designed TransportNode products that carry voice, video, and data transmissions... (0299)

Design News feature article "Options in design with metals" showing that design for manufacturing analyses can point the way to design efficiencies... (1199)

ASME's Mechanical Engineering journal's article "DFMA to RP, ASAP looked at how DFM and rapid prototyping both seek the same prize: a better product made faster... (0999)

Geoffrey Boothroyd of BDI delivers the keynote lecture, "Development of DFMA and its impact on US Industry" at CE99... (0999)

Assembly magazine's article "The Signal for Success" explored Nortel's efforts to lower the cost of fibre-optic telecoms with DFMA...(0999)

Design News article "Less is More when designing for manufacturing reinforced the lessons learnt by HP, Dell,... that fewer parts means fewer mistakes in assembly (0899)

Assembly magazine published details of how Whirlpool used DFA to cut parts by 29 percent and assembly time by 26 percent... (0799)

Appliance Manufacturer magazine published details of how Whirlpool Sweden "Trained Teams/Lean Design" using DFA to cut parts by 29 percent and assembly time by 26 percent...(0799)

The 1999 International Forum on DFMA presented "elegant solutions to design challenges" in the form of eighteen presentations.  A panel of experts considered the 'impact of DFMA and rapid prototyping and manufacturing'... (0699)

Machine Design published details of DFM Sheet Metalworking in a guidance article "What you should know about designing for sheet metal"... (0599)

Injection Molding magazine looked at "Molding the future of auto exteriors" and the role of DFMA as an enabling technology (0499)

Product Design and Development magazine looked at how Raytheon Systems helped the US Army keep tabs on its enemies from a safer distance in "Out of Harm's Way"... (0499)

Assembly magazine feature-editorial by Geoffrey Boothroyd on how "Quality and Automation will shape design"... (0299)

ASME's Mechanical Engineering journal reported of Nortel's DFMA designed TransportNode products... (0299)

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	1998

The 1998 International Forum on DFMA presented "Foundations & Frontiers" in 21 Technical Papers... (0698)

Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine featured "Design, Assembly Software simplifies manufacturing" in its IT section..(0598)

Injection Molding magazine presented a "concept for IP design born of DFMA...(0498)

Machine Design magazine looked the latest DFMA software in "A software approach to cutting product costs"... (0498)

Assembly magazine published details of how Kirby household appliances used DFMA, in "A New Broom Sweeps Lean"...(0298)

	1997

Assembly magazine looks at how Delphi Interior and Lighting Systems used Design for assembly  to create a door module that combines quality improvements with assembly efficiency... (11/97)

Design News Online reports on McDonnell Douglas Helicopter (Apache AH64D) and Lockheed-Martin Missiles utilise DFMA... (09/97)

Aerospace Engineering magazine printed an in-depth article into "concurrent engineering in the aircraft industry" charting impressive results from its application (inc. DFMA)...(09/97)

The 1997 International Forum on DFMA (06/97)

Design Engineering magazine gave Bombardier Inc.'s DFA-success Sea-Doo XP97 personal watercraft a first (gold) place award in the discrete product category... (05/97)

Assembly magazine sidebar article on Ciba Corning Diagnostics use of DFMA to upgrade its line of 200 Series blood-gas analysers... (01/97)

	1996

Assembly magazine article on Sandia Laboratories use of intelligent software and DFMA to enhance automatic and robotic assembly processes... (10/96)

The 1996 International Forum on DFMA (06/96)

	1995

Assembly magazine cited how Respironics found that DFMA software enables engineering teams to define goals at the earliest stages of product design and then manage priorities... (09/95)

Design News Online reports about General Motors (GM) Lansing division and their use of DFM(A) in reducing parts, product complexity and team working (0895)

Design News Online looked at how the next step in design might be Design for Serviceability (0695)

Design News Online reports on how Eastman Kodak Engineers strive to design 'green' products economically before legislation requires it...(0595)

The 1995 International Forum on DFMA (06/95)

	1994

"Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly", a book authored by Boothroyd, Dewhurst and Knight, and published by Marcel Dekker, Inc... (1994)

	Other

Design for Competitive Advantage website produced by NASA.  (Tempermental Link to Langley Research Center website. Alternative link to cost estimating links - http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/links.html Somewhat academical research-like but contains plenty of information...

Best Manufacturing Practice website brings together a wealth of information, from the defence industry, that extols the virtues of applying DFMA... (0200)

The Nordic Design for Manufacturing Forum is a group of engineers and scientists interested in DFM. The results of their work is contained within the website and also the DFM booklet distributed by the EU... (97)

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