3rd March 2021 7:00 am 1st March 2021 1:12 pm
DFA is a vital part of the industrialisation process for complex products, writes Rob Capaldi, Ricardo Performance Products Market Head for Industrialisation.
As part of Industrialising Innovation Week we are discussing the process required to transition innovative products from the concept phase through development and into production, focusing on physical products of high complexity, operating in performance-critical applications.
While following the industrialisation process, to ensure optimised investment and to retain control of ongoing costs, it is vital to consider the future assembly requirements that will be essential when the product reaches the production environment. For complex products, this consideration will be given through a robust Design for Assembly (DFA) process.
2nd March 2021 7:00 am 1st March 2021 12:52 pm
Rob Capaldi, Ricardo Performance Products Market Head for Industrialisation, examines the key steps on the journey from product concept to full-scale manufacturing.
When we talk about industrialising innovation we are referring to the transition of a product through the development phases from ‘idea’ to ‘manufacturing’. The phases of development are well documented with most companies implementing their own variant of a product development process to establish key milestones and deliverables along the way. These development processes provide companies of all sizes with defined routes to mass production, a key step in this route is the niche volume phase in which production must take place with a high level of control and quality but at much lower volume than is typically seen in full-scale production.