Day 9, New Engineer’s First Job: Mistakes
Dear Diary, Day 9. I really dodged a bullet on Tuesday. I spent all day fine tuning my computer model of my design in preparation for John my manager to review my progress. He wanted a few changes made which undid all of my fine tuning so I essentially wasted the entire day. I think […]
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9 Actions to transition from firefighting to improving
The customer is missing a part – did production forget to pack it or did my junior engineer forget to include it in the packing list? This part doesn’t fit, production is at a standstill – did our subcontractor screw up or did I put the wrong tolerance on the drawing? A customer called and […]
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What is product Design For Manufacturing?
Designing products with a view to their ease of manufacture and assembly, it really is that straight forward! Why? Reduce production cost, improve quality and reduce lead time. There are many more indirect benefits but basically it is the big three, the reason behind any improvement – cost, quality and time. Why improve with DFM, […]
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Product design improvement on a fishing trip
Industry accepted statistics indicate that investment in designing a product typically computes to around 5% of the overall cost of each product sold. The irony here is that this product design process influences around 70% of the overall product cost to manufacture. That includes factors such as material selection, number of parts, choice of assembly processes, etcetera. […]
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1 Key critical to Design For Manufacturing results
I recently produced a series of posts that have looked at creating good foundations for implementation of design for manufacturing. These have included transitioning from the firefight to improvement (Read Here) and working towards establishing a lean engineering department (Read Here). They have also looked at the big picture (Read Here), how the approach you […]
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