Design engineers, especially new engineering graduates, are always ready to come up with innovative and cool new products and ingenious systems. Yet, design for manufactur-ability (DFM) conies to dominate their creative process; their designs need to meet very specific terms for manufacturing. This can include everything from working with approved parts, to where a hole can and cannot be placed, to what types of materials can be used, to who needs to sign offon the design before it moves forward. The responsibility for ease of manufacturing has moved higher on the list of design engineering responsibilities. "Design for manufacturing is a growing concern because the supply chain has become more complex with suppliers and contract manufacturing," Scott Reedy, director of product marketing for Arena Solutions, told Design News. "Everybody needs to deliver a product that can be easily manufactured."
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