Design For Manufacturing (DFM) technology is one of the important research contents of the whole life cycle design, and it is also a method of parallel design of product design and subsequent manufacturing. In the design stage as early as possible to consider the constraints related to manufacturing, comprehensive evaluation and timely improvement of product design, can get a comprehensive goal of better design scheme, and can strive for product design and manufacturing a success, in order to reduce costs, improve quality, shorten the purpose of product development cycle.
Enterprise new product development success rate is low, a large number of scientific research results stay in the principle of the scheme and drawing, can not or difficult to be manufactured according to the design requirements, or have to use a high cost to complete the processing. Manufacturing-oriented design research is carried out to solve these problems.
The key of manufacturing-oriented design is to integrate product design and process design, its purpose is to make the designed products easy to manufacture, easy to assemble, reduce product costs and shorten product development cycle under the premise of meeting user requirements. DFM is to fully consider the relevant constraints of product manufacturing in the process of product design, and comprehensively evaluate the product design and process design scheme. To provide improved information and optimize the overall performance of products to ensure their manufacturability, DFM is the core of parallel design, aimed at realizing the functional integration of the product development process based on information integration and sharing. OPD product development plays a crucial role in achieving these goals.
Why do I need DFM?
1. Reduce product defects
By considering feasibility and reliability in the manufacturing process, DFM can avoid design defects and reduce the defect rate, thereby improving the quality and reliability of the product. The Power of Prototyping is crucial in this process, as it allows for early detection and correction of potential issues. At the same time, it can reduce material waste and lower production line costs.
2. Quickly reach mass production
By considering the factors of manufacturing process, equipment and human resources, DFM can optimize the production process, improve production efficiency and line utilization, and quickly reach mass production.
3. Shorten the design cycle
By adopting a DFM approach, you can reduce rework and delays between design and manufacturing, shorten product development cycles, and bring products to market faster.
4. In the Force Snowball, DFM plays a different role in each stage of prenatal delivery. The analysis focus of each stage will be different, and it is recommended to introduce DFM in the initial stage of new product design to save more time and cost.