DFM article,    Concept/Architecture Cost Breakthroughs,   Time to Innovate;     Design for Growth,      Designing in Quality
,        Saving Cost and Time with Vendor/Partnerships    Product Family Design       Order Fulfillment in Half the Time
Mass Customization,         Build-to-Order,          Standardization,         Designing products for Lean Production
Low-cost Machine Control using Linkages     7 Reasons Why "Cost Reduction" after Design Doesn't Work   Half Cost_Solar
Article on Scalability now including how to make research manufacturable..    Results (new bio-page).  
Unique new course: Concurrent Engineering & BTO for Low-Volume; High-Mix Environments
Compete on price without sacrificing profits or raising profits without raising prices
Stopping counter-productive policies before change can start

 

Leading-edge Expertise on DFM & Concurrent Engineering

For the last 25 years,   Dr. David M. Anderson P.E., has been showing companies how to develop low-cost products that
ramp quickly to stable production.

His customized in-house two-day Product Development Seminar has taught hundreds of companies how to use Concurrent Engineering
 to design products for the best manufacturability, at the lowest possible cost, in half the time to stable production, with the highest
 quality by design using the methodologies summarized in the article on Design for Manufacturability  and published in the
 2014 DFM book, "Design for Manufacturability How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop Low-Cost, High-Quality Products for Lean Production"  

All DFM & Concurrent Engineering seminars,  webinars, and workshops are practical and relevant because they are
 customized to the company's products, industry, and volumes.

His Product-Specific workshops immediately apply these principles to new projects as they begin. 

DFM Seminars and workshops show how to commercialize products, which is an important step between Research and Development. 
Commercializtion of research ensures the Development phase will be able to design low-cost, manufacturable products quick.

To see a one-hour preview of the seminar, email Dr. Anderson to arrange a no-charge
private DFM webinar for decision-makers or call him directly at 1- 805-924-0100.

His new DFM webinar is : Leading-edge; customized, Low-cost can reach unlimited audiences anywhere.
        It can be schedulee quickly and allow prople to have time to work between4 four-hour sessions 

His powerful Steel & Cost Reduction Workshop will apply DFM principle to large, heavy, or
complex parts for major reduction in cost. material usage, weight, skill demands, quality costs,
and build time.
      The workshop will show how to develop low-cost new-generation products or backward-compatible substitute modules
that will replace expensive weldments, casting, or unnecessarily heavy machined parts with more steel-efficient
 parts of assemblies of CNC machined parts that are accurately assembled by various DFM techniques. 
The illustration below shows an example of a common machine frame, which can replace all welded frames,
most of which need to be machined on large "gantry" milling machines to drill mounting holes in the warped frame.

When the cost of steel goes up, bring in the  Steel Reduction Workshop

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These principles have been published in Dr. Anderson's second book on Mass Customization: published in Dr. Anderson's second book on the subject: "Build-to-Order & Mass Customization; The Ultimate Supply Chain Management and Lean Manufacturing Strategy for Low-Cost On-Demand Production without Forecasts or Inventory"
 

DFM alone may make the difference between being competitive and not succeeding in the marketplace. Most markets are highly competitive, so slight competitive advantages (or disadvantages)
can have significant impact.  See DFM article 
DFM may make the difference between a competitive product line and, in the extreme, products that are not manufacturable at all. Products fail and go out of production because costs are too high, quality is too low, the introduction was too late, or production couldn't keep up with demand.  These are all manufacturability issues and therefore very much affected by Design for Manufacturability