Make Research for early assurance Scalability and DFM

All  54+ original article topics (below) can be included in Webinars taught to everyone anywhere

Design for ___________ articles

  DFM Article
     Designing in Quality
          Design for Scalability without shortages
                   Strategy for NPD and renewable energy
                    Manufacturable Research      and    Commercialization

Concurrent Engineering Articles

Concurrent Engineering of Challenging Products (white paper)  
        Why OffshorIng  thwarts Concurrent Engineering!.
             Vendor - Partnerships   to save cost and time
             Low-Volume; High-Mix Environments       
                        Rationalization   to focus resources on most  worthy products
                        

Articles about Time-to-Stable-Production 

Half the time to Stable Production 
        Time to Innovate        
        Order Fulfillment in Half the Time  
                   How DFM can cut labor demands in half

articles  about Cost  

    Design to Cut 9 categories of cost from half to 1/10  
         C ost  breakrhtoughs   Concept/Architecture optionization
            7 Reasons Why "Cost Cuttine " after Design Doesn't Work;       
              Compete on price without sacrificing profits
                Recession Strategies    
                              Backward-compatible "drop-in" replacements for existing AND new products

Articles on Lean  Produstion   &   Build-to- Or

Articles on Spontaneous Supply Chains (pulling parts)

Spontaneous supply chains        
    Automatic Part  Resupply with illustration of  kanban
                   Assuring Availability early with  Manufacture Research
                         Avoiding shortage and scaling problmes with Commercialization 

 Articles on   Implementation  and  Examples   

How to Design Ultra-Low-Cost Truss Structures   
        Unique article on   Half_Cost Concentrated solar Power    with proposal
            Low cost   Machine Control with Linkages   including solar tracking
               Ultimate case-study BTO case sty of $430M green-field  BTO plant
                   Results page that that shows the best client results

 

Articles on Counter-Productive Policies

The Case Against Offshoring; and What to Replace it with.  
        Why Companies Can't Innovate and how to unleash innovation (Lists counter policies)
                How_not_to_lower_cost  with new warninggs  about product development
                    How_not_to_lower_cost  with new warninggs  about product development
                       

Why Companies Can't Innovate and how to unleash innovation (Lists counter policies)
7 Reasons Why "Cost Cuttine " after Design Doesn't Work;          Low-bidding      
 Offshoring

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 These  last three alone can drain away 2/3 of engineering resources!
(Cheap parts, bidding, & Offshring

 

It is Time to Learn New Ways* to Design & Build

and Stop doing what gets in the Way!

* The 590 page 2020 book has 814 topic sections

 

Reduce cost of machine frames & structures with "drop in" replacements:
 Steel Reduction Workshop  with many examples, like this one of a machine frame:

All of these article topics can be combined into
a customized two day DFM class or the
most advanced product development class

 

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"Half Cost Product Development" to save from half to 10 times less cost in 9 categories*
Minimizing  product development cost
Fastest time to stable production
Designing in the best quality and reliability right-the-first-time
Fastest build time and throughput time
Designing for Lean Production, Build-to-Order, and Mass Customization
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New Article: Strategy

Feature article: Why Companies Can't Innovate
and how to unleash innovation

 

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