Course Summary
Assembly is one of the most critical costs in a manufactured product. This course develops your capabilities in Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA). You will build on prior engineering knowledge to examine the design of products for manufacture and assembly (manual, high-speed automatic and robotic) and the overarching impact of product design on product cost. Topics that will be covered include:
- The economics of manufacturing processes and the cost of assembly in a manufactured product.
- Assessing an existing product for design efficiency.
- Redesigning components to reduce manufacturing costs by parts integration and increasing design efficiency.
- Analysis of equipment to feed and orient components for robotic and high-speed assembly.
- Effect of component quality on productivity in automated assembly.
- The use of collaborative robots (cobots) for assembly tasks.