.... Manufacturing management Design for manufacture Sustainable production Green operations Automotive industry The growing demand for consumer products has led to severe environmental degradation and poses a mounting threat to sustainable development (Shao, 2019). In response to the challenges...

... manufacturing stages. Originality/value – By following a simultaneous engineering approach, μ-ProPlAn aims to reduce the efforts in process design by supporting the design of manufacturing processes in the early stages of the product design and by providing suitable methods for the analysis...

...Thankachan T. Pullan; M. Bhasi; G. Madhu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the capture and documentation of essential design for manufacture (DFM) pieces of information to make design decisions. Essential manufacturing information is that which can affect the fulfilment of functional...

...G.Q. Huang; K.L. Mak This article reports on a questionnaire survey with the aim to determine the extent of familiarity with and use of design for manufacture (DFM) in the UK furniture manufacturing industry. It was revealed that only a small proportion had experimented or applied one or more DFM...

...Harish A. Rao; Peihua Gu Presents a new design methodology and an integrated approach for the design of manufacturing systems. The methodology discusses the steps leading to design of manufacturing systems; the integrated approach suggests ways of integrating the different stages of manufacturing...

.... In short, if a high flexibility and productivity of the assembly system are aimed at, the most important criteria which the product assortment should meet are the following: Assembly Design for manufacture Modular production Product design Robotics Past experience has shown that design...

...Gary Wallace; Peter Sackett The benefits of integrated design and manufacturing systems in mid to high volume production are widely accepted. The low production volume, large component size and high complexity product domain is less well served by this technology. Examples of this kind of product...