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Design for Manufacturability (DFM) may be defined as an approach for designing products so that:

the design is quickly transitioned into production,
the product is manufactured at minimum cost,
the product is manufactured with a minimum effort in terms of processing and handling requirements, and
the manufactured product attains its designed level of quality.

Several techniques for DFM have been developed and implemented in industry. The most popular of these is the Boothroyd-Dewhurst method. Typically, a technique will focus on one or more of the above listed objectives. A review of t he available DFM techniques indicates that none focuses explicitly on the quality objective.

This research group is developing new approaches that focuses exclusively on evaluating a design from a quality perspective. We label this approach as Design for Quality Manufacturability or DFQM.

The goal of this methodology is to enable the user to:

improve the design so as to reduce the effort to be expended in attaining a desired design quality, and
improve the design so as to reduce the likelihood of defective products being manufactured.

Maintained by Dr.Das Sanchoy

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