Blog Category: Design for Manufacturing
With a major responsibility of part performance on its shoulders, Design for Assembly aka DFA spells efficiency for industries worldwide. A frequent in electro-mechanical industry, Assembly is no alien to industries like sports, fast fashion and the like. While industrial specifications might call for customization, standard design practices for Assembly parts are (and, should) be …
Practical Adherence to Design Rules – a Matter of Choice? So, you have designed successful parts with sharp inside corners, uneven walls, thick ribs, low draft angles, etc. Based on this, you feel strict compliance to these rules may be an overkill. You further feel that taking care of these design requirements adds unnecessary time …
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Why 3D Printing? Additive manufacturing, often known as 3D printing is a process which is used to manufacture parts by the way of binding material layer by layer. Unlike subtractive manufacturing this technology is based on adding material layer by layer. Widely used across variegated industries like aerospace, defense, automotive, consumer products, medical and the …
Plastic Material Selection – It’s A Jungle Out There! Part 1 Understanding Plastic Materials David Wright in his book “Failure of Plastics and Rubber Products” divides the failures of plastic into categories and percentages as illustrated in Figure 1. Figure 1 – Human Causes of Plastics Failures [1] As we see, almost half of the …
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DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURIBITY: GETTING MORE WITH LESS The conceptualization of every product plays an integral role in its manufacturing. Before its eminence dawned on the industry, manufacturing was fundamentally driven by ‘if it’s designed, then it’s machined’. What followed next was often dreaded by both designers and manufacturers-a difficult (often failed) attempt to manufacture a …
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