Design for Manufacturability, 2nd Edition

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Implementing DFM

To paraphrase the punch line of the entertaining IBM commercials, There is no magic tool to implement DFM—no magic software, no magic shrink-wrapped solution, no magic trademarked models. To say this in a different way, you can’t buy DFM.

Nor can companies simply manage their way to great product development. Project management techniques may allow management to track progress and feel that things are “on schedule,” but these measures could be counterproductive without an understanding of how products should be developed, in general, and designed for manufacturability, in particular. For instance, if intermediate deadlines are set arbitrarily or without knowing the importance of thorough up-front work (Section 3.2), they ...