In our organization the DFM is the part of any ongoing Design & Development process. In the entire development phase of product realization, we have many iteration (cycles) of design & proto builds. The execution of the protobuild is carried out by NPI (New Product Introduction) team along with the manufacturing or process counterparts. The primary objective being to validate the existing design & to make the product ease of manufacturing. As the product approaches the Volume production there will be tremendous pressure on output & to meet the cycle time for each individual process. The manufacturing team will look into the bottleneck in each of the process & work on designing fixtures to improve cycle time or on breaking up the processes in different stations to balance the production line. The early feedback of DFM inputs to the Design team will help them to improve the final design concept keeping the design intent intact, which in turn helps in reduction of number of iterations & hence the time to Market.
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Re: DFM Issues and Challenges
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