Design-for-assembly (DFA) and design-for-manufacture (DFM) techniques can be applied to products assembled manually or automatically or manufactured by specific techniques, such as machining, die ...

A lot is happening in Design for Manufacturability (DFM) these days. The body of DFM knowledge originated in the early 1970s and has been growing steadily ever since. Hitachi, Westinghouse, and Stuart ...

Manufacturing issues are one of the top reasons that we see warranty returns and loss of market share in the electronics industry. Issues like supply chain failures and printed circuit board assembly ...

This article appeared in Microwaves & RF and has been published here with permission. You’ve finally completed your printed-circuit-board (PCB) design for a new product. You run your design-rule ...

Advanced Development (AD) is the “sandbox” between classical research and development (R&D) and Product Development (PD). Living in this grey zone, engineers in AD are typically in a role where they ...

Design for manufacturing (DFM) refers to actions taken during the physical design stage of IC development to ensure that the design can be accurately manufactured. At larger nodes, most of the defects ...

A “cage match” pitting a DFT (design-for-test) team against a DFM (design-for-manufacturing) team was a highlight of IPC APEX Expo 2011. Paul Windsor of Acculogic, Brian D’Amico of MIRTEC, and David ...