Profitability improved by Design

Post date: Apr 10, 2015 3:20:10 PM

PROBLEM: A manufacturer of complex electro-mechanical systems had grown rapidly to the point where the demand for their products outstripped their ability to manufacture on time to target cost.

SOLUTION:  Business Excellence provided training in French on “Design for Manufacture and Assembly” to a multidisciplinary team of Product and Process Engineers and then facilitated a series of workshops to improve the design of a new product range to enable the same or better functional performance to be achieved with a drastic reduction in component cost and assembly times.

RESULTS: The client was able to deliver a massive order quantity of their latest design of product on time below target cost as a result of the application of the DFMA methodology taught by Business Excellence and the initial coaching and final in-house adoption of design for Manufacture and Assembly methodology.

DFMA is one of a several Engineering tools used by Business Excellence to enable organisations to improve profitability of engineered products.