...Robert Bogue Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the design for manufacture (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA) concepts and illustrate their benefits and applications. Design/methodology/approach Following an introduction, this paper provides an historical background to DFM...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Assembly Manufacturing systems Design for assembly Context sensitive languages Computing Flexible assembly systems Industrial robotics Design for manufacture Context sensitive computing Ontology Service oriented architecture Web services...

... Becker , R. and Grzesiak , A. (2010), “ Rapid manufacturing in automation applications ”, in Paulo , B. and da Silva , J. (Eds), Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Innovative Developments in Design and Manufacturing, Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid...

... design engineers in using the SLS technology as opposed to traditional manufacturing technologies. Findings The findings of the paper are primarily limited to the differences of the functionality of products designed for manufacture using traditional technologies as compared to the ability to design...

... on how to maintain their products or processes at the forefront of the technology curve. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Computer aided engineering Design for manufacture The Russians call it TRIZ, (their acronym for the theory of inventive problem solving). It was all started by a Russian...