Course Summary
This course develops your capabilities in designing for manufacture. You will build on prior knowledge of engineering to examine the design of products for manufacture and assembly 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 the component to reduce manufacturing costs by parts integration and increasing the design efficiency
- Analysis of equipment to feed and orientate part for robotic and high-speed assembly
- Simplified plant cost models for automated assembly