Consulting

With product launch cycles getting shorter and shorter, swift implementation of new productivity tools is a critical requirement for success. In an ever changing market, where product development success is always judged in the context of time-to-market, companies must strive to use as many of these productivity tools as possible to gain a strategic advantage over their competition.

DFMA® Consulting Services at Design IV allows for the swift implementation of this new technology giving your company the strategic edge over your competition. Using Design IV to help with your DFMA tasks, and making DFMA an everyday part of the way your organisation does business, is the main goal of Design IV's Consulting Services. So, if your company has limited dedicated resources for DFMA analysis and/or accelerated product launch cycles, contracted DFMA consulting is the right choice for your organisation.

Consulting Services Offerings:

DFA Product Assessment :

Benchmark analysis of products using Design for Assembly (DFA)

DFM Product Costing :

Costing of parts, subassemblies and entire products

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) :

Lean the product design before you lean the process

DFMA Product Design :

Add the skills and experience of our experts as an integral capability to your new product design team. This can be on an adhoc basis or  longer term retainer basis, called upon at appropriate milestones or as and when needed.

Location :

DFMA Consulting is conducted worldwide, at your location or anywhere you choose.

Contact us to learn more and discuss your requirements.

Consultants

Mark Curtis

Design IV
Founder and CEO/Managing Partner of Design IV. Mark has been an instructor, coach, mentor, and consultant in DFMA for more than 20 years and has trained hundreds of engineers and designers around the globe for a wide and diverse range of clients.
Prior to Design IV, Mark was a consultant and engineering designer for a number of international manufacturing and consulting firms engaged in the design and manufacture of  durable goods.  He has contributed to a number of published articles including the United Nations Environment Program, and industry journals including Engineering, Concurrent Engineering, Design Engineering, Computer Solutions, and the Journal for Sustainable Product Design. He has also given lectures at a number of leading universities, and presented at national and international conferences.

Areas of expertise

  • Retail Equipment (incl. EPoS, PoS storage and display, drinks dispensing)
  • Consumer Appliances (incl. Audio, Hi-fi,)
  • Automotive products (incl. IP, Seating, HVAC, Lighting, Cluster)
  • Defence Products (incl. Missile Control, Ordnance, Communications, Underwater systems)
  • Aerospace (incl. engines, nacelles, structures, avionics)
  • Telecoms (incl. cellular phone, base stations, telephones, PBX)
  • Construction (incl. excavators, loaders, materials handling)
  • Industrial (incl. pressure vessels, heat exchangers)

David Eakin

DE Design Ltd
  David is the founder and Managing Director of DE Design, a business improvement consulting firm.  David holds an honours Degree in Engineering, and is a Chartered Engineer.  Before entering the aerospace industry in 1984, he held positions of maintenance engineer, manufacturing engineer, project engineer, design engineer, and then engineering design manager.  In 1991 he was appointed DFMA Specialist at Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast, where he was recipient of a National Training award and certified a Six-Sigma Black Belt in 2000.

Areas of expertise

  • 30 years of design, manufacturing, and leadership experience

  • Led, motivated, and project managed multi disciplined aerospace teams in DFMA and Six Sigma improvement tools generating total cumulative annual cost savings in excess of £750k; trained, coached, mentored and influenced over 50 improvement teams and managers.

  • Lectured and examined university undergraduates in DFMA and Six Sigma and has wrote and presented papers on improvement tools at international gatherings.