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Acknowledgments

The methodologies described in this book rely on the prior work, assistance,
support, encouragement, and dedication of many colleagues and students. The
development of these methodologies in turn depends on the knowledge base and
data made available by various collaborating companies and the financial support
provided by both private industry and state and federal funding agencies.
Although there are too many individuals, companies, and funding agencies to
mention here I do want to mention a few.
Among faculty colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who
have helped are J. Edward Sunderland and Robert Graves (now at Rensselaer),
who participated in much of the DFM work described here, and Larry Murch,
who suggested the total relative part cost model used in Chapters 5, 7, and 10
and who made many valuable suggestions while reading the manuscript. I am
especially appreciative of the many useful discussions and suggestions provided
by my good friend and colleague John R. Dixon to the original version of this
manuscript, which first appeared in our book Engineering Design and Design for
Manufacturing: A Structured Approach.
Although many graduate students participated and contributed to the
ongoing research in design for manufacturing (DFM), among the students who
have contributed the most were Jiten Divgi, Sheng-Ming Kuo, Ricardo Fernan-
dez, Lee Fredette, Ferruccio Fenoglio, Juan Escodero, Shyam Shanmugasun-
daram, Pratip Dastidar, Prashant Mahajan, and Shrinivasan Chandrasrkran.
The contributions of these students would not have been possible without
the financial support of the former Digital Equipment Corporation, Xerox,
the National Science Foundation, and the Massachusetts Center of Excellence
Corporation.
Most of the knowledge base and data base upon which the DFM method-
ologies in die casting and stamping are based was acquired with the coopera-
tion of the following New England-based companies, namely, Cambridge Tool
and Manufacturing Company, North Billerica, MA; Kennedy Die Castings,
Worcester, MA; Larson Tool and Stamping Company, Attleboro, MA; K. F.
Bassler Company, Attleboro, MA; Leicester Die and Tool Inc., Leicester, MA;
Metropolitan Machine and Stamping Company, Medfield, MA; Thomas Smith
Company Inc., Worcester, MA; Hobson and Motzer, Inc., Wallingford, CT;
Newton New Haven Co., North Haven, CT. The knowledge base and data
base for injection molding was obtained with the cooperation of the following
companies: Jada Precision Plastics, Rochester, NY; Sajar Plastics, Midfield,
OH; Colonial Machine Company, Kent, OH, Tremont Tool and Gage, Cleveland,
OH; Woldring Plastic Mold Technology, Grand Rapids, MI; Sinicon Plastics,
Pittsfield, MA; and Tog Mold, Pittsfield, MA. I am deeply indebted to all of these
companies, as well as to those companies whom I have forgotten to mention,
for their invaluable help and for their willingness to work closely with the stu-
dents mentioned above.
To help in better visualizing and understanding the logic behind the method-
ologies described in this book, a series of Power Point presentations have been

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developed to accompany the book. These presentations make heavy use of ani-
mations developed by students from the Center for Knowledge Communication
in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst. Although many students contributed to the development of these ani-
mations I want to especially thank Ryan Moore and Nick Steglich for their work
on the stamping and die-casting animations.
Finally, I also want to express my indebtedness to both Geoffrey Boothroyd
and Beverly Woolf. It was Geoffrey Boothroyd who introduced me to the entire
design for manufacturing mindset, and it is his work in design for assembly that
opened the frontier to all the "design-fors." Chapter 12, "Assembly," borrows a
great deal from his prior work on manual assembly. Beverly Woolf introduced
me to the fascinating world of multimedia and pointed out its usefulness in edu-
cation, especially in the area of design for manufacturing.
Lastly, to those who contributed but whom I have failed to acknowledge here,
I apologize. There just isn't space for you all, but I do sincerely appreciate your
help.
To the extent that the book is correct and useful, I owe much to all of you;
to the extent that it is not, I am solely responsible.

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