Dr. A @ ITEC @ MU

Department of Industry & Technology Millersville University

Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA)

  • Textbooks:
    • Required: “Design for Manufacturing Handbook”, by James G. Bralla, publisher: McGraw Hill Professional, 2nd Ed., 1998, ISBN-10: 007007139X or ISBN-13: 978-0070071391
    • “Design for Excellence”, by James G. Bralla, publisher: McGraw Hill Professional, 1995, ISBN-10: 0070071381 or ISBN-13: 978-0070071384
  • Recommended references:
    • "Design for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering”, by David M. Anderson, publisher: C I M Pr, 2010, ISBN-10: 1878072234 or ISBN-13: 978-1878072238
    • "Product Design for Manufacturing & Assembly”, by Geoffrey Boothroyd et al., publisher:  CRC, 2nd ed., 2001, ISBN-10: 082470584X or ISBN-13: 978-0824705848
    • "Product Design and Development”, by Karl Ulrich and Steven Eppinger, publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 4th ed., 2007, ISBN-10: 0073101427 or ISBN-13: 978-0073101422
  • Syllabus: ITEC 445_Fall 2010
  • Teaching style: Active and cooperative learning plus lecturing
  • Short paper HWs will be announced in the class.
  • Semester-long "design project" will be announced in the class.
  • Check Desire2Learn for additional course material
  • DFMA software:

Useful links

  1. Manufacturing videos and virtual factory tours, Stanford University
  2. Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS 2.0), UC Berkeley
  3. Design for manufacturing guidelines +++
  4. Yellow pages for companies and products-ThomasNET
  5. Design for manufacturing at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  6. New Product Development (NPD) Solutions-consulting&resources
  7. DFMA-Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc.
  8. MatWeb - online materials information resources

Upcoming events

  1. DFMA 2011 conference

Video's watched in the classroom

  1. Design for Manufacturing, Manufacturing Insights video series (DV03PUB50), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
    Millersville University Videodisk, TS 176, .D465x, 1990
  2. Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Manufacturing Insights video series (DV05PUB2), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
    Millersville University Videodisk, TS 171, .D4638x, 2005
  3. Product Design-Why Materials Matter, TV Choice, www.tvchoice.uk.com
    Millersville University Videodisk, TS 171, .P738x, 2004

  4. Industrial Product Design and Sustainability: Designing with Recycled Materials, Insight-Media, Millersville University Videodisk, TS 171, .I541x, 2009.

  5. Plastics, Classroom Media, Millersville University Videodisk, TP 1120, .P548x, 2002

  6. Ergonomics and Design, Classroom Media, Millersville University Videodisk, TA 166, .E735x, 2000b

Design for manufacturing and assembly is methodologies and tools to define product development phases. It provides experience of working in teams to design high-quality competitive products. Primary goals are to improve ability to reason about design, material and process alternatives and apply modeling techniques appropriate for different development phases. Topics covered are general principles of design for manufacturing and design for assembly, managing DFMA, evaluating different design proposals, economical use of raw materials, design recommendations for various manufacturing processes, designing for quality, designing for safety, designing for serviceability/maintainability, designing for environment, and designing for low-quantity production.