DI:14.1 OVERVIEW

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During design, we often focus on the final product, and not its manufacture.

The Design For X (DFX) philosophy suggests that a design be continually reviewed from the start to the end to find ways to improve production and other non-functional aspects.

These rules are nothing new, they are just common sense items written down, but they can be a good guide through the design process.

Advantages of these techniques are,

- shorter production times

- fewer production steps

- smaller parts inventory

- more standardized parts

- simpler designs that are more likely to be robust

- they can help when expertise is not available, or as a way to reexamine traditional designs

- proven to be very successful over decades of application

These techniques can be used as a very substantial part of concurrent engineering.

Some of the DFX acronyms are, (modified from [Dodd, 1992])