Day 1

• Understanding the benefits of DEMA
• Four objectives of product design
• Productivity
• Cost
• Quality
• Reliability

Day 2

• Design for Manufacturing (DFM) a clear understanding
• What is a cross functional team
• DFM within the Product Development
• Overview of the DFM process

• Estimate the manufacturing costs
• Reduce cost of components
• Reduce costs of assembly
• Reduce cost of supporting production
• Consider impacts on other factors

Day 3

• Further advice on design skills
• Design engineers need the key skills, knowledge and understanding before they can analyse a brief. Research alone does not produce successful analysis
• Design engineers, must be provided with a design brief
• How to retrieve specific information and function
• Aesthetics
• Performance
• Target markets.
• Discuss the important role a specification plays in the development of a design
• How to develop skills knowledge and understanding

Day 4

• Further Advice on developing design Skills
• How to compare effective specification and ineffective specification
• How to compile a design specification and explain in the class (using a NOBO board)
• How to develop the thinking skills required to generate creative and original ideas
• How to experiment with different techniques to generate ideas
• Use a morphological analysis matrix
• Organise and carry out a brainstorming session for a specific task

Day 5

• Further advice on developing knowledge and understanding for design engineers
• How Participants should develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
• Appropriate methods of gathering data
• Reasons for selecting research techniques
• Key stages of questionnaires and user trips
• How and why a specification is used in the design process
• How to reduce cost of assembly
• How to keep score
• DFA index = (Theoretical minimum number of parts) x (3 seconds) / (estimated Total assembly time)
• How to reduce the cost of assembly
• How modelling could be used to generate and explore, test and refine, and communicate throughout the design stage
• Useful activities and approaches for the design engineers
• Analyse existing folios and exemplars to identify how models have been used and whether they have been effective in the development of the proposal
• How to match suitable models to suitable purposes.
• Training Methodology
• Fully comprehensive workbook will be provided
• Supporting power point presentations
• Videos showing effective methods in design techniques for designing Manufacturing & Assemblies
• Self Assed questions
• Case studies