The market demands for product development today mean that the product design process must include steps for ensuring design for manufacturing DFM, as well as design for assembly DFA, which are both rolled into one term DFMA, or design for manufacturer and assembly. A modern DFMA program might include steps to analyze the assembly costs, analyze the ease of assembly, assembly time, and the associated manufacturing costs of each manufacturing process. When you add in optimization for your particular supply chain, and then layer on top of that your sustainability goals, that's a hefty calculation to perform before a prototype even hits the factory floor.

This is why finding a digital solution for DFMA holds such a huge potential for cost savings and the real time productivity gains that ensure you hit your time to market goals. Today we're looking at a live case study of how one company simplified their design for manufacturing and assembly methodology through a digital twin solution.