Officials at Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc., announce the release of its DFA Product Simplification software, Version 10. The Design for Assembly software has an improved user interface for speed and ease of use, and helps manufacturers develop more streamlined and profitable products.
DFA Product Simplification allows engineers to scrutinize parts and assemblies for structural efficiency, guiding them toward the creation of single, multifunctional components with significantly improved performance-to-cost ratios. The resulting elegant, highly economical products enable companies to better reach their Lean and Value Engineering goals by increasing manufacturing throughput and reducing the organizational footprint products make in their journey from design workstation to factory floor—and on to the customer.
Users of DFA 10 Will Find These Enhancements:
- Efficiency is gained because only the most important DFA questions are asked for each handling and assembly operation.
- A more guided redesign process has been incorporated into the software with suggestions that have been built into the product structure under review.
- The DFA worksheet has been integrated with the structure chart to enable seamless toggling back and forth during an analysis.
- Times for commonly done assembly operations, such as unpackaging of large parts and aligning of holes with an awl prior to insertion of a screw or pop-rivet, are automatically estimated by the software.
- Acquisition times for parts and tools are automatically estimated by the software with no additional input required.
- There is a new ability to compile more useful results that are now based on function groupings of parts and operations in a product.
- A new test-view panel has been incorporated into the operations library, which makes it easier and faster to develop customized assembly operations.
- Customized tabular reports can be generated and exported.
- Full “undo” and “redo” features have been added.