Engineering Design Centre
Design for Manufacture and Assembly
Provides a fully integrated approach to developing and manufacturing products or components from initial design through to completion using advanced disciplines including virtual prototyping and lean manufacturing techniques.
What is it?
Design for Manufacture and Assembly allows you to ask "what if" questions about your product design, and get immediate, accurate answers. These answers that can be used to make solid business decisions while reducing costs, increasing quality, and shortening development cycles.
You can analyze your current designs and your new designs, quickly determining how to simplify the design for significant cost savings. You can explore various manufacturing processes and materials. As you do, the concurrent costing module instantly shows you the cost ramifications of your design decisions.
What are the benefits?
Design for Manufacture and Assembly product simplification and cost analysis tools have many direct business benefits. Companies have seen large scale savings from their product manufacturing costs while creating products that are easier to manufacture and maintain. The direct benefits to companies include:
- Supply chain cost management
- Product simplification and improved quality
- Improved communication between design, manufacturing, purchasing, and management
- Cutting manufacturing and assembly costs