Win-win for Us and Our Customers - Strategies to Reduce Product Parts Costs | Szmolding.com

 Within the design for manufacturing (DFM) framework, engineering goals focus on making key manufacturing processes more reliable and cost-effective to increase profitability.

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Our team and any other consultants should focus on reducing the number of parts by reducing the number of parts, reducing material costs, and improving the assembly process.

Design for Manufacturing Reduces Part Counts
One of the key strategies used by DFM to reduce part costs is to reduce the number of parts in the design.

Each part requires its own individual steps: unique tools, multiple fixtures, and more individual parts for prototyping and manufacturing. Every part of the design uses your existing bandwidth logically and financially. On the contrary, every part integrated in the design can eliminate redundant steps, free up the team's bandwidth.

This is why as a team, our engineers are trained to find opportunities to integrate part functions. It relies on a broad understanding of individual mechanisms and has become the cornerstone of our expertise.

We can often use our ingenuity and creativity to simplify the parts that need to be manufactured, and even combine them so that you can get many different characteristics and functions from a piece of plastic or a piece of metal.

Reduce material costs through expertise
When you use mechanisms to reduce the number of parts, you also need to be open to the ideal materials for manufacturing.
There are many nuances between plastic and metal. In terms of its functionality, each variant has significant differences. Whether it's heat sensitivity, durability or flexibility-each substance has unique advantages and limitations

When we can take advantage of our expertise in part materials, some key advantages emerge. We will be in a better position:
Preemptively predict product weaknesses even before testing prototypes
Use innovative materials to effectively improve product performance
Identify capable alternatives that can reduce costs

We have briefly introduced how to choose the right material of plastic injection molding before.

Reduce product cost by simplifying assembly
In the assembly stage of the production process, emphasizing engineering design as early as possible is another way to reduce the cost of parts
If you can successfully integrate the number of parts, you will find that the assembly process is smoother and more efficient.

Replenish your team's resources
Most product engineering teams are aware of these principles, but it is the experience and expertise of these principles that can produce different results.

At SZOMK, we specialize in providing supplementary resources for product teams who need expertise in specific mechanisms (such as plastic injection molding process or plastic injection molding materials).

If you are looking for innovative ways to reduce the number of parts and manufacturing costs, we can provide free product reviews to help provide insights and keep your profitable products on track.