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 [Hardcover]

Dr. David M. Anderson (Author), P.E. (Author), fASME (Author), CMC (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 4, 2010

This 2010 book shows how to design products for all aspects of manufacturability and use multifunctional product development teams and Concurrent Engineering principles to achieve the goals cited in the sub-title:

DESIGN FOR LOW COST. The book presents many effective methodologies to design low-cost products by concurrently engineering products in multifunctional teams that will simplify concepts, optimize architecture, optimize the use of modules and off-the-shelf parts, have pre-selected vendors help design custom parts, understand and avoid previous problems, and then thoroughly design for manufacturability for quick launches without expensive change orders.

DESIGN IN HIGH QUALITY. Chapter 10 shows how to design quality and reliability into the product with poka-yoke and 50 design guidelines.

DESIGN FOR LEAN MANUFACTURE. The book shows how to standardize parts and design products for lean production, JIT, build-to-order, and mass customization.

DESIGN QUICKLY FOR FAST PRODUCTION. Chapter 3 shows how thorough up-front work is the key to quickly developing products, avoiding changes, and achieving fast ramps.

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About the Author

Dr. David M. Anderson is the world's leading expert on using Concurrent Engineering to Design products for Manufacturability. Providing 25 years of in-house DFM seminars has honed his methodologies to an effective methodology for accelerating the real time to stable production and significantly reducing total cost.

He has written four books, authored three web-sites, been issued four patents, and written and taught five college courses, including, New Product Development, the Management and Design of Manufacturable Products in the Management of Technology Program at the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Anderson has more than 35 years of industrial experience in design and manufacturing. He has provided training and consulting to several divisions of Hewlett-Packard, United Technologies, Freightliner, FMC, and multiple engagements at Boeing, Smiths Aerospace, GE, Emerson Electric, NCR, Beckman-Counter, and Korea's LG Electronics. For seven years, his own company, Anderson Automation, Inc., built special production equipment for companies such as IBM and OCLI and did design studies for FMC, and SRI International. As the ultimate concurrent engineering experience, he personally built the equipment he designed in his own machine shop.

Dr. Anderson is a Fellow of ASME and has been certified a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Management Consultants. His credentials include professional registrations in Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering and a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California,

He can be reached at 1-805-924-0100 or [e-mail].

Product Details

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: C I M Pr (April 4, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878072234
• ISBN-13: 978-1878072238
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #157,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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

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John C. Olsson "analogwiz" (Waltham, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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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.

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

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George Thorpe "Montreal Class Education" (Montreal, QC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 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 (Hardcover)

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.

4.0 out of 5 stars great resource, September 27, 2011

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