DFMA Guided Analysis
A DFMA Guided Analysis is specifically designed to provide participants with fast results and an immediate payback. This is accomplished with a full session devoted to performing team-oriented DFMA analyses and redesign on participants' individual company products. Invariably, participants leave the session with a new vision of ways to improve the manufacturing efficiency and quality of their own products and appreciate why DFMA is an important part of the design process.
Resources
Design IV's services can be tailored to meet your specific needs. The length of time required to accomplish different goals depends on the specific products. Typically a group of design and manufacturing engineers can address most design challenges in one to three days.
Typical Agenda
One day DFMA Guided Analysis featuring DFA analysis of a small product or subassembly:
- Introduction to DFMA
- Overview of the software features and functions
- Brief introduction to Design for Assembly
- Benchmark analysis of your product or assembly
- Lunch
- Brainstorming ideas for the purposes of redesign
- Redesign analysis of your product to show potential savings
- Printing of results for the team to take away from the session
Additional days cover DFA analysis of larger products and DFM costing of products.
Deliverables
At the end of most sessions concrete results will be achieved. A rollup of the total cost savings is typical, along with an outline of the next steps required to achieve them.
Location
DFMA Guided Analysis [workshops] are conducted at your location for groups up to a maximum of eight.
Contact us to learn more or to schedule a DFMA Guided Analysis workshop.
Additional topics
DFMA Core Training
DFMA Guided Analysis
DFMA Overseas Costing
Implementation Workshop
Consulting
What workshop participants have said:
“Provided the opportunity for manufacturing and development engineers to work together in a team effort.”
“Promoted a change in design methodology.”
“Opened closed minds to new methods of design.”
“Made you think from the beginning before you design.”
“Real world experience from other companies, not just academia.”
“Practical use with (our) product was a valuable part of the program.
“Everything has real life applications-you can’t make an argument not to use these workshops."