Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA)

Our eLean approach to DFMA is:

• A methodology that allows creative design solutions to be found in order to optimize products for manufacturing, assembly, total product life cycle, and voice of the customer satisfaction requirements.

DFMA should be part of a lean design and manufacturing effort and deployed at the beginning of a product concept stage. Design teams will achieve design improvements while maintaining or exceeding cost reduction targets.

• Each part design is evaluated for fit, form, function, cost and manufacturability

• The design of each part is streamlined through reduction strategies until the most efficient design is achieved

• DFMA then provides accurate cost estimates to make intelligent decisions regarding manufacturing, life cycle, and voice of the customer support decisions

• Our DFMA training, software and tools bring clients through these steps in a hands-on, interactive environment

DFMA ensures that your design team will improve designs in the concept stage, accounting for nearly 80% of on-going product cost. The result will be large cost and time savings that would otherwise have been lost, and improved manufacturing efficiency and product quality during the process. Our training and/or deployment of DFMA is tailored to provide clients with immediate results with tangilble payback.

eLean DFMA includes:

Introduction to DFMA
Providing of a functional understanding of DFMA

DFMA for product structure, reduced costs, and improved quality
Assembly, automation and access issues
Concurrent costing analysis
Piece, part and tooling cost analysis
Performing Machining/Metalworking/Assembly analysis 
Software features and functionalities
Brainstorming methodology 
Types of Redesign analysis (Kaizen costing)
Simulation and modeling of DFMA improvements
Computer based screens, reports and data procedures

The Anitech techniques to lean DFMA are taught through hands-on workshops and/or deployed by trained senior engineering consultants. Our experienced staff can assist new product developments through mentoring of design team professionals to achieve and sustain anticipated DFMA results.

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