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. Our team and any other consultants should focus on reducing the number of parts by reducing the number of parts , reducing material costs , and imp roving 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 underst...