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Improving Quality During Assembly with DFX
November 20, 2013 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Engagements between contract manufacturers and product companies can take place at various points in the product life cycle. However, it’s very common for manufacturers to engage with product companies in the later stages of the product life cycle, during product transfer to mass production. This is the stage when companies tend to face some tough challenges such as launching products on time, meeting target cost, and maintaining quality and performance goals.
Manufacturing success is enabled by a robust product design, and design for manufacturing (DFM) is the methodology or art of designing a product in such a way that it is easy to manufacture. DFM also helps facilitate the manufacturing process in order to reduce the overall manufacturing costs.
DFM involves several types of analyses that are as diverse as products in the industry, and can consist of adjacent areas such as “design for” printed circuit board fabrication, assembly, enclosure, test, reliability and cost. In addition to core manufacturing processes, there are other areas of support including design for supply chain, design for automation and design for repair. These areas are becoming more and more important as the strength of labor arbitrage is diminishing, making way for “right-shoring” products in different parts of the world.Read the full article here.Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the October 2013 issue of The PCB Design Magazine.