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Design for manufacture

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Mastering Manufacturing

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Abstract

If a manufacturing company is to survive, it is essential that it produces well designed products. Should a company’s products not be designed to satisfy the needs of the consumer, then competitors’ products will be purchased and the company will fail. This applies equally to domestic and export markets. The contribution made by manufacturing to a nation’s economy was emphasised in Chapter 1: inability of a company to sell its products leads inevitably to its demise. If this applies throughout a country’s manufacturing industry it can be seen that good or bad product design has an extremely significant effect on the success or failure of the national economy.

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Further Reading

  1. ‘Design and the Economy’ by Roy Rothwell et al. Published by The Design Council 1983.

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  9. ‘Essentials of Engineering Design’ by Joseph Walton. Published by West Publishing Co., 1991.

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  10. ‘ A Guide to Design for Production’ Published by The Institution of Production Engineers (now the Manufacturing section of the Institution of Electrical Engineers), 1984.

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  1. Gordon Mair
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Mair, G. (1993). Design for manufacture. In: Mastering Manufacturing. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12093-2_5

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