Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFM+A) Training

Dates: Sunday, May 16

Times: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Format: Online, instructor-led training

Platform: Microsoft Teams

OACETT Member Cost: $100.00

Non-member: $175.00

Links & materials: Included in cost. Will be provided in the confirmation email under "Additional Information" (scroll down)

Overview

Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFM+A), pioneered by Boothroyd and Dewhurst, has been used worldwide to develop creative product designs that use optimal manufacturing and assembly processes. Correctly applied, DFM+A analysis leads to significant reductions in production cost without compromising product time-to-market goals, functionality, quality, serviceability, or other attributes.

In this one-day workshop, you will learn the Boothroyd Dewhurst Method and how to apply it to your designs. This seminar will include how DFM+A fits in with quality function development (QFD), concurrent engineering, robust engineering, and other disciplines. Besides, there will be a brief demonstration of computer software tools, which simplify the DFM+A analysis.

Objectives

• Learn how to perform design for assembly (DFA) analysis method using a worksheet
• Learn how to perform DFM analysis (manufacturing cost estimation)
• Reduce your company's design, manufacturing, and production costs by analyzing and eliminating factors that significantly affect the time, price, and quality of manufacturing and assembly
• Utilize practical analysis, brainstorming, and trade-off techniques for redesigning assemblies and subassemblies.

Who should attend

Product designers, product engineers, quality engineers, process engineers, manufacturing managers, supervisors, directors, or manufacturing engineers will benefit by attending this seminar. Individuals involved in a new or ongoing product development process will also benefit by learning how to help synchronize and optimize fabrication and assembly activities. This course is most effective when attended by product development team members.

Agenda

• Overview of DFM+A (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly)
• Voice of the customer, expectations, and satisfaction
• Kano model
• Critical to quality
• Engineering specifications and design
• Critical characteristics and special characteristics
• Example of an assembly
• Process mapping
• Lean and nine waste basics
• Cost of a product and break of costs
• Effective and ineffective designs
• Efficient and inefficient designs
• Organizational and societal losses in ineffective and inefficient designs
• Design for X
• Advantage and process of DFMA
• About DFM, examples, and exercise
• About DFA , examples, and exercise
• Steps to complete DFMA Study
• DFMA worksheet in Excel
• Case Study to understand Basics of DFMA (functional analysis, determine practical minimum per count, identify quality opportunities, identify handling (grasp / orientation), identify insertion (locate & secure), and identify opportunities to reduce secondary operations.

About the instructor

CJ is a training professional in experiential learning with a sound reputation of attention to detail and focus on end goals. He specializes in practical project management which he learned from a Japanese Sensei while working for Honda. He has successfully launched the Daewoo car manufacturing plant, Honda car manufacturing plant, tier 2 automotive plant, managed 400 different product /program launches, coached 200 project teams on continuous improvement projects, and worked closely with numerous companies to help them find cost saving measures.

Certifications

• Authorized Training Facilitator and Authorized Training Partner for PMI, USA
• Certified ADKAR Change management professional from PROSCI, USA
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ, USA
• Project management professional, PMP from PMI, USA
• Certified Facilitator from ICA Associates, Canada
• Certified Microsoft Data Analysis, India
• Mechanical Engineering, specializing in Automotive, India
• Certified in M.O.S.T., Maynard Operation Sequence Techniques: Time & Motion studies from Accenture, USA