Title: What Manufacturing Engineers Can Teach Design Engineers About Cost & Quality
One of the biggest complaints heard by manufacturing engineers is they're not involved until it's too late. Your device might be innovative, but if it's too costly to produce, and it doesn't meet quality standards, it may never get off the ground. In this session, manufacturing engineers will learn how to work with the design team to think ahead to avoid this fate.
- Planning for manufacturing cost savings in the design phase
- How this relates to risk assessment (i.e. dFMEA, pFMEA)
- Design for 3D printing, based on which printing process is used
- Design choices to make in order to save money whether machining components or designing snaps and press to better manage tight tolerances
- How to combine stamping features without compromising tolerances
- Combining manufacturing processes to save money: Stamping + CNC, 3D printing + CNC