Abstract
“Design-for-Assembly (DFA)” is a design philosophy concerned with improving product designs for simpler or less costly assembly operations. DFA can also lead to improvements in serviceability, reliability, and quality of the end product. Figure 1 depicts a typical application of DFA, showing before and after shots of an assembly redesigned according to DFA principles (Welter Sept, 1989). It is easy to recognize that the redesigned assembly not only has fewer parts, but also is simpler to assemble. This type of redesign can bring significant cost savings in the required handling and assembly equipments.
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Kim, G.J., Bekey, G.A. (1994). Design-for-Assembly (DFA) by Reverse Engineering. In: Gero, J.S., Sudweeks, F. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Design ’94. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0928-4_41
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