Applying the method in your own cases and exercising and completing homework during the course is important and mandatory to become familiar with the method and to discover your pitfalls.
That is why presentations of applications, preferable of own work, are part of the course. No need to say that homework is vital for the effectiveness of the training and of yourself.
During day two we will discuss how alternative designs can and will influence Time to market.
During day three you will present the complete ranking of alternative designs using the three criteria main level: Functionality, Total lead time, Integral cost.
In the training you will learn how to make and to communicate well-founded design decisions.
Day 1
- Definition & method DfM: Definition of DfM; How to judge manufacturability of a design; Applying DfM; Why, how, when, who, etc; How to handle alternative designs and ideas
- Product requirements: What is needed at the start of the design job and to be used as reference at moment of a design decision?; Case: set up a requirement document for a simple product or product detail
- DfM in the Product Generation Process: Especially at set-backs
- Case: How is it made?
- Time to market estimations
- Questions & answers
Day 2
- Presentations of your own exercises
- Manufacturing process knowledge for a designer, via knowledge of: Ability of manufacturing processes as: freedom of forms; Influences of manufacturing process choices on manufacturability aspects; Limitations and possibilities to produce certain product-details per manufacturing process; Design details needed per process. As: start & stop spots for laser cutting. Space to assemble, etc.; Product details as a result of the manufacturing process. As: influenced layers, weld lines, burrs, roughness, etc.; Subsequent process needed as a result of earlier processes. Often to remove/repair unwanted details. As: removing support structure after 3D printing; Influences on Time to market and Integral cost
- Assembling as important manufacturing process and part of DfM. Design for Assembling as part of DfM
- Integral cost and product cost estimations
- Q & A
Day 3
- Presentations of your own exercises
- Material selection
- Interactions between: Product design (details) + Material + Manufacturing Process choices
- Approach in DfM
- Securing session
- Q & A
- Closure
The training consists of three days and then after two weeks a so-called assurance session. In this session, students present a design from their own practice in the presence of their own team leader and senior management. This meeting must show that participants have understood the methodology and can work with it in practice.
