Design for Manufacturability is a proven design methodology that works for any size company. Early consideration of manufacturing issues shortens product development time, minimizes development cost, and ensures a smooth transition into production for the quickest time to market. Production costs are lower because simpler designs can be assembled easier with less overhead costs. DFM designs have fewer parts and fewer part types. This, in turn, helps eliminate setup for lean production, build-to-order, and mass customization.
Development time & costs are better because of concurrent engineering design teams, modular design, standard design features, common parts, use of existing plant equipment. This results in less "fire-fighting," engineering changes, and less need for redesigns. Quality and reliability are designed in and built in.
The second edition has grown 40% to 312 pages with 20 illustrations, 140 general DFM guidelines, 125 references, and a 14 page index with the latest new information from the author’s DFM seminars and consulting.
Dr. David M. Anderson is a lecturer and consultant specializing in seminars and consulting on Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Concurrent Engineering, Lean Production, Build-to-Order, and Mass Customization. He wrote the book, Agile Product Development for Mass Customization (McGraw-Hill, 1997). He also wrote the opening chapter in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers handbook on DFM (Tool & Manufacturing Engineers Handbook, Vol 6) and the chapter on DFM and Mass Customization in Wiley’s Quality Function Deployment Handbook.
In the Management of Technology Program at the Graduate Business School at the University of California at Berkeley, he taught "New Product Development, the Management and Design of Manufacturable Products." For the past 15 years, Dr. Anderson has been providing corporate seminars, workshops, and consulting on DFM, Concurrent Engineering, and New Product Development. He has provided training and consulting to several divisions of Hewlett-Packard and Loral, in addition to United Technologies, GE, Emerson Electric, Bausch & Lomb, Northern Telecom, Kaiser Electronics, Freightliner, Guidant, Korea’s LG Group, and many other companies.
Dr. Anderson has over 26 years of industrial experience in design and manufacturing. As Manager of Flexible Manufacturing at Intel's Systems Group, he wrote manufacturing strategies, organized their successful DFM program, taught internal DFM classes, initiated their parts commonality program, and taught CAD to Intel Engineers. From 1977 to 1983, his own company, Anderson Automation, Inc., generated design studies and built special production equipment for companies such as IBM, FMC, Clorox, and Optical Coating Labs. As the ultimate concurrent engineering experience, he personally built the equipment he designed and is proficient at machining and welding.
The Institute of Management Consultants has certified Dr. Anderson as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC). His credentials include professional registrations in Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley with a major of Design for Production.
Dr. Anderson can be reached at (805) 924-0100; andersondm@aol.com
