Concurrent Engineering and Design for Manufacture of Electronics Products

New product design and development process. Principles of design for manufacturing. Product specifications and manufacturing process tolerances. Organizing, managing, and measuring concurrent engineering. Robust designs and variability reduction. Customer-driven engineering - quality function deployment. The manufacturing process and design ratings. Geometric dimensioning and tolerance analysis. Design for manufacture of printed circuit boards. Reliability enhancement measures for design and manufacturing. Tools for DFM: the role of information technology in DFM.