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Design for assembly

A review of some design for assembly methods is given in the paper. It is known that a lot of methods of design for assembly have developed during the last twenty years. From practice is found that implementation of design for assembly at the early conceptual stage of design has led to enormous benefits including simplification of products, lower assembly and manufacturing costs, reduced overheads, improved quality and reduced time to market. In accordance with the steps of embodiment design it seems useful to start considering assembly even while working on the layout of both the working and the construction structure. An easy to assemble layout can be achieved by structuring, reducing, standardising and simplifying the assembly operations. This will lead to a reduction of expenditure because the assembly process is improved and the product quality ensured as assembly is c1earer and easier to control. Design for assembly is now being broadened to include consideration of the difficulty of manufacture of the individual parts to be assembled and is providing the necessary basis for teamwork and simultaneous engineering.

design; assembly

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