Design for manufacturability and design for “X”:concepts, applications, and perspectives

摘要

Design for Manufacturability (DFM) is a system approach thatsimultaneously considers all of the design goals and constraints forproducts that will be manufactured. Sometimes DFM is confused withDesign for Assembly (DFA), which is only one aspect of design forManufacturability. Other aspects include all the “designfor's” or “-abilities”; design for Quality, design forMaintainability, etc. They are sometimes referred to as “designfor X” (DFX). This paper presents the concepts, applications, andperspectives of DFX, thus, providing some guidelines and references forthe future researches and implementations