DFM and manufacturing

The jump is a change of process, supply and control, not a larger purchase order…

You prepare it by locking the decisions a tool will freeze: resin family, part split,…

A prototype build answers a design question with whatever process can answer it. A pilot…

You reduce it by deleting lines that do no work, by buying catalogue parts at…

Supplier feedback should change the design when the supplier is reporting a limit of their…

It needs the set another team can buy, build, inspect, program and pack from, without…

You make the work divisible into stations that finish inside the time the line has,…

Design for manufacturing asks whether a part can be made on the process you named,…

Design for manufacturing is the work of making a product match a named process, at…

Design for manufacturing should begin when you choose a process class and a part split.…