Design for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering; How to Design for Low Cost, Design in High Quality, Design for Lean Manufacture, and Design Quickly for Fast Production

This 2010 book shows how to design products for all aspects of manufacturability and use multifunctional product development teams and Concurrent Engineering principles to achieve the goals cited in the sub-title: <P> DESIGN FOR LOW COST. The book presents many effective methodologies to design low-cost products by concurrently engineering products in multifunctional teams that will simplify concepts, optimize architecture, optimize the use of modules and off-the-shelf parts, have pre-selected vendors help design custom parts, understand and avoid previous problems, and then thoroughly design for manufacturability for quick launches without expensive change orders. <P> DESIGN IN HIGH QUALITY. Chapter 10 shows how to design quality and reliability into the product with poka-yoke and 50 design guidelines. <P> DESIGN FOR LEAN MANUFACTURE. The book shows how to standardize parts and design products for lean production, JIT, build-to-order, and mass customization. <P> DESIGN QUICKLY FOR FAST PRODUCTION. Chapter 3 shows how thorough up-front work is the key to quickly developing products, avoiding changes, and achieving fast ramps.

Dr. David M. Anderson is the world's leading expert on using Concurrent Engineering to Design products for Manufacturability. Providing 25 years of in-house DFM seminars has honed his methodologies to an effective methodology for accelerating the real time to stable production and significantly reducing total cost. <P> He has written four books, authored three web-sites, been issued four patents, and written and taught five college courses, including, New Product Development, the Management and Design of Manufacturable Products in the Management of Technology Program at the University of California at Berkeley. <P> Dr. Anderson has more than 35 years of industrial experience in design and manufacturing. He has provided training and consulting to several divisions of Hewlett-Packard, United Technologies, Freightliner, FMC, and multiple engagements at Boeing, Smiths Aerospace, GE, Emerson Electric, NCR, Beckman-Counter, and Korea's LG Electronics. For seven years, his own company, Anderson Automation, Inc., built special production equipment for companies such as IBM and OCLI and did design studies for FMC, and SRI International. As the ultimate concurrent engineering experience, he personally built the equipment he designed in his own machine shop. <P> Dr. Anderson is a Fellow of ASME and has been certified a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Management Consultants. His credentials include professional registrations in Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering and a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, <P> He can be reached at 1-805-924-0100 or andersondm@aol.com.