Design IV - DFMA Implementation

DFMA Implementation Workshop

These hands-on workshops help teams quickly and effectively begin to use and implement DFMA. Starting with some introductions to the DFMA 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 process. Make your next product your first DFMA success story.

Workshop Benefits

Trains teams in the principles and benefits of DFMA concurrent engineering strategies
Provides a hands-on understanding of how DFMA works in a concurrent engineering environment
Leaves participants with a thorough understanding of the theories behind DFMA along with case-study examples of the success of these tools
Gives team members a structured example of team use of DFMA from which to build their own programs
Helps users realise immediate design improvements on their own company products
Encourages design creativity, teamwork and innovation

Workshop results

Overall product cost
Assembly and manufacturing efficiency
Customer satisfaction
Product quality and reliability
Time-to-market launch cycles
Number of post-release design changes
Ease of service, repair and recycling
Overhead requirements for design, operations and support functions

Outline Agenda

This is only an outline; the agenda can easily be tailored to meet your specific needs. A three day workshop is recommended when complex products will be analysed and for developing DFM component costs resulting from DFA analysis work.

Two-day Workshop - Day One

Overview of DFMA.
Introduction to the Design for Assembly methodology.
Design for Assembly paper exercise of a small sample product. Design for Assembly software introduction.
Lunch.
Begin Design for Assembly software analysis of your product.
Complete Design for Assembly benchmark analysis of your product.

Two-day Workshop - Day Two

Introduction to Design for Manufacture topics specific to your organization.
Begin to brainstorm ideas for redesign using Design for Assembly results from the previous days analysis.
Lunch.
Begin to look at Design for Manufacture analyses of your redesigns.
Presentation of DFMA analysis results to the group.

Three-day Workshop - Day One

Overview of DFMA.
Introduction to Design for Assembly methodology.
Design for Assembly hand calculation.
Lunch.
Design for Assembly software introduction.
Begin Design for Assembly analysis on sample product.
Review software outputs to direct redesign efforts.
Overview of the Operations library.

Three-day Workshop - Day Two

Begin Design for Assembly analysis of your products.
Use software output to begin brainstorming different redesign concepts.
Lunch.
Start to quantify potential for savings.
Introduction to DFM Concurrent Costing.

Three-day Workshop - Day Three

Complete Design for Assembly comparisons.
Begin DFM Concurrent Costing analysis of DFA design
Overview of DFM Concurrent Costing Operation library
Lunch
Wrap up before and after design comparisons
Presentation of DFMA results.

Location

DFMA Implementation workshops are conducted at your location for groups up to a maximum of twelve.

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."