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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars best DFM book ever, December 7, 2006
This book saved my company. I am going to get a giant DFM tattoo across my shoulder. David Andersen is welcome at my company or in my living room any time of the year. I started a company with my advisor out of college and we *struggled* for 5 years to get things working. Let me tell you, this book changed everything. I gave a presentation on it that was more of a book report and everybody was on board. The way we choose vendors, the way we work with vendors, the way we ask, obsessively, all the questions up front, before we even commit to a design architecture, has changed our lives and refreshed our spirits. Mockups, vendor phone calls, impromptu team meetings, it all makes sense now. Everything they never taught us engineers in college. They taught us to design for functionality, not manufacturability. He is so right! Andersen "gets it". And there are like hundreds of DFM rules for all sorts of topics in the appendix. Read it, adopt it, present it, print out hte rules and staple them up all over. Things now work right, we screw 'em together and they work. Voila! Thank you Andersen! Buy this, everybody who's been burned by poor design. Buy this.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars For who is serious about product design cost savings, October 9, 2006
This is a book I should've had many years ago. What I found interesting with this book is the fact that it supports many of the arguments that have included in the subject I am dealing with. I regret not buying it earlier as I struggled with issues such as DFM and DFA and how they can improve the bottom line of an aerospace enterprise. What I also like about this book is that it goes straight into the subject, rather than going on and on over abstract concepts and theories that are not at everyone's reach. I always say that people in the industry don't have time for long and endless theories, they want the facts and answers on how they can improve (when they realize they need to improve to stay in business). I have to say that this book answers just that.
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4.0 out of 5 stars great resource, September 27, 2011
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E. Boyle (San Leandro, CA) - See all my reviews
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5.0 out of 5 stars DfM for good reading, October 18, 2008
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Nishil Y. Patel "just sheel" (San Francisco Bay, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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the book was undoubtedly in good condition.
it was nice reading experience, and will benefit a lot to me
for even during my working days..
Design for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering; How to Design for Low Cost, Design in High Quality, Design for Lean Manufacture, and Design Quickly for Fast Production
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5.0 out of 5 stars Totally satisfied with the book and the shipping time, June 11, 2007
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T. FRANKS (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
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The book was recieved in a couple days and in excellent condition. I could not ask for anything more. Thank you...
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