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DFMA Guidelines

This document provides guidelines for design for manufacturing (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA). DFM aims to minimize production costs and time to market while maintaining quality. DFA focuses on simplifying the directions and methods for joining parts. Benefits of DFM and DFA include reduced costs, increased reliability, and improved quality. Effective DFM and DFA starts with a multi-disciplinary design team and applies design guidelines with explicit design goals in mind. The guidelines provide tips for minimizing part counts, standardizing parts, preventing part tangling or nesting, including alignment and orientation features, and designing for easy assembly. Examples are given for combining parts and determining the theoretical minimum number of parts.

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DFMA Guidelines

This document provides guidelines for design for manufacturing (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA). DFM aims to minimize production costs and time to market while maintaining quality. DFA focuses on simplifying the directions and methods for joining parts. Benefits of DFM and DFA include reduced costs, increased reliability, and improved quality. Effective DFM and DFA starts with a multi-disciplinary design team and applies design guidelines with explicit design goals in mind. The guidelines provide tips for minimizing part counts, standardizing parts, preventing part tangling or nesting, including alignment and orientation features, and designing for easy assembly. Examples are given for combining parts and determining the theoretical minimum number of parts.

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INLAND METALS

Design for Manufacturing and


Assembly
General Guidelines

Design for Manufacturing (DFM) refers to design


Activity that is based on minimizing the cost of
Production and/or time to market for a product,
While maintaining an appropriate level of quality.
A primary strategy in DFM involves minimizing the
Number of parts in a product.
Design for Assembly (DFA) involves making
Directions and methods for attaching and joining
The parts of a product simpler.
DFMA refers to working with both of these concepts
Together.

Benefits of DFM and DFA


Reduces part count, thereby reducing cost
If a design is easier to produce and assemble, it
Can be done in less time, so it will be less
Expensive. Design for manufacturing and assembly
Should be used for that reason if no other.
Increases reliability
If the production process is simplified, there is less
Opportunity for errors.
Generally increases the quality of the product
For the same reason it increases reliability.

DFM and DFA


DFM and DFMA start with the formation of a design
Team which must be multi-disciplinary, including:
engineers, manufacturing managers, estimating and
Marketing and sales professionals
The most basic simplest approach to design for
Manufacturing and assembly is to apply a set of
design guidelines
You should use design guidelines with an
Understanding of explicit design goals. Make sure
That the application of each guideline improves
the design concept with respect to those goals.

DFM and DFA Design Guidelines


Minimize part count by incorporating multiple functions into
single parts
Several parts could be fabricated by using different manufacturing
Processes (sheet metal forming, injection molding).
Ask yourself if a part function can be preformed by a
neighboring part

DFA
Parts should easily indicate orientation for insertion

Use standardized products and standardized parts to


Reduce variety of operations, choices and inventory burden
Example: having similar looking screws that are different
Sizes is confusing.

Design parts so they do not tangle or stick to each other


Distinguish different parts that are shaped similarly, or hard to
Distinguish by non-geometric means, such as color coding.

Design parts to prevent nesting. Nesting is when parts that are


Stacked on top of one another clamp or stick together.
Design parts with orienting features to make alignment easier.

Provide alignment features on the assembly so parts are


easily orientated.
Design the mating parts for easy insertion or attachment.
Provide allowance (tolerance) on each part to compensate
For variation in part dimensions.

Design the first part large and wide for stability,


Then assemble smaller parts on top of it sequentially.
If you can not assemble the parts from the top down
Exclusively, then minimize the number of insertion
Directions. Never require the assembly to be turned over.

Joining options: parts can be joined using (screws, nuts and


Bolts or rivets, snap fits, welds or adhesives. Design to eliminate
Fasteners and to place them away from obstructions.

DFM and DFA DESIGN EXAMPLES

Combining to minimize the number of parts


To determine whether it is possible to combine neighboring
Parts, ask the following questions:
Must the parts move relative to each other?
Must the parts be electrically or thermally insulated?
Must the parts be made of different material?
Does combining the parts interfere with assembly or other parts?
Will servicing be adversely affected?
If the answer to all questions is NO, you should find a
Way to combine parts.

Minimizing the number of parts


Another approach
The concept of the theoretical minimum number of parts
Was originally proposed by Boothroyd (1982). Generally,
During the assembly of the product, a part a part is required
only when;
1. kinematic motion of the part is required
2. A different material is required.
3. Assembly of other parts would otherwise be prevented.
If none of these statements are true, then the parts do not
Need to be separate entities and may be combined.
Follow the KISS principal
KISS Keep it simple stupid

END
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly

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