ME 452: Design for Manufacturability

Instructor: Prof. Sridhar Kota

Course Outline

I. Introduction

A. Market and systems design requirements

Quality Function Deployment

Product Design Specifications, Product Status

B. Conceptual Design

Abstraction, analogy and functional design

Concept Selection Matrix

II. Principles of Design

Matching , Disposition, Biasing, Least Constraint, Nesting,

Regeneration and Cascading. Energy Conservation.

Designs in nature. Compliance in design.

III. Design Methods

A. Design for Assembly

Assembly efficiency and redesign for ease of assembly

Design of snap-fits

B. Design of Product Families

C. Materials Selection, Manufacturing Tolerances and Rapid Protoyping Methods.

D. Robust Design using Taguchi Parameter Design

Quality loss function

Signal and noise factors

Orthogonal arrays and linear graphs

Analysis of variance

Case studies