This 3-day workshop will provide you with fundamental knowledge and hands-on practice with Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) principles and key tools.
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24 hours
Instructor-led classroom training, in-person and in-groups, with lots of discussion and working sessions to practice learned skills.
Available at QSG’s training facilities or on-site at your organization
Participants will need to purchase Design for Manufacturability and Assembly Workbook, by Charles Gillis
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) is a set of overlapping principles applied to engineering design that consider requirements beyond the functional. DFA ensures a good design early in the design process by focusing on the number of parts, part handling, and ease of assembly. DFM achieves good product designs using simple manufacturing techniques and using standardized parts and materials. Together DFMA helps organizations reach the goal of developing quality products at the lowest cost while saving time. This 3-day workshop will provide you with fundamental knowledge and hands-on practice with Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) principles and key tools.
This course is designed for all levels of engineering and manufacturing personnel, as well as their managers. Anyone involved in design or manufacturing – including design engineers, product engineers, manufacturing engineers, process engineers, and quality engineers – will take away valuable skills and knowledge.
Through training, participants will learn the following:
Introduction:
DFMA Introduction
Design impact on cost
Fallacies vs. reality
Design for Assembly
Framework for DFA: the manual assembly process
DFA principles of simplicity and mistake-proofing
Methodology of part count reduction, fastener reduction, and consolidation
Design for part orientation, location, insertion and securing
Self-fixturing, production fixtures
joining & fastening guidelines
Design for Automated Assembly
Component design & quality considerations for flexible automation and hard automation
Design guidelines & examples for automated handling and feeding, picking & placing, insertion, transformation
Design for Manufacturing
Framework for DFM: material section, cost estimation, process selection, and detailed feature design
DFM principles of standardization and process capability
Methods to estimate the cost of manufactured components
Design for Machining
Process-specific design guidelines & examples
Design for Metal Forming
Process-specific design guidelines & examples
Design for Injection Molding
Process-specific design guidelines & examples
Design for Casting
Process-specific design guidelines & examples
Design for Welding
Process-specific design guidelines & examples
Design for Surface Treatment
Process-specific design guidelines & examples
Design for Additive Manufacturing
Process-specific design guidelines & examples
Process Capability and Tolerances
Variation and specifications, effect of tolerances, design objectives
Process capability, tolerance analysis, allocation, and optimization
GD&T for DFMA
GD&T principles of variation, datum reference frames, tolerance zones, bonus tolerance, and drawing ambiguity without GD&T
How complete component specifications ensure assembly and economic manufacture
Methods to increase tolerances, reduce costs, increase yields, and achieve higher quality while ensuring parts assemble and function
DFMA And the Development Process
DFMA process steps: early manufacturing involvement & early supplier involvement
Conducting design reviews to address DFMA
Cost models to estimate costs & evaluate design alternatives
Developing design standards & guidelines
Implementation guidelines
This course will help you develop design optimization, cost reduction, manufacturability assessment, material selection, and assembly efficiency skills, enabling you to streamline product development, reduce waste, and enhance production efficiency.
QSG offers a variety of engineering and manufacturing training programs, including GD&T, Design of Experiments (DOE), and Lean Six Sigma.
We offer customized DFM&A training tailored to your organization’s product design and manufacturing requirements. Contact us at info@qualitysupportgroup.com to discuss personalized training solutions.
Yes! Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion, demonstrating their proficiency in DFM&A principles and best practices.
You can register online by selecting your preferred course date and completing the enrollment process.
QSG members receive exclusive discounts on training programs.
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