Design for Manufacturing

"The term ____________ means the design for the ease of manufacture of the collection of parts."

• Design for Assembly (DFA)

• Computer Aided Design (CAD)

• Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)

• Design for Manufacture (DFM)

Which statement(s) related to DFMA is/are correct?

• During operation of the product, does the part move relative to all other parts already

  assembled?

• Must the part be of different material or be isolated from all other parts already assembled?

• Must the part be separate from all other parts already assembled?

• All of the above.

Which of the following would be a useful contributor to a strategy of mass customization?

• modular design

• offshoring

• economies of scale

• fixed automation

One of the disadvantages of standardization is:

• greater customer satisfaction.

• better responsiveness to changes in demand.

• early freezing of product designs.

• shorter product life cycles.

Which name is most closely associated with robust design?

• Taguchi

• Ford

• Smith

• McCaskey

• McGinnis

Which technique is associated with mass customization?

• a moving assembly line

• robust design

• use of a product-process matrix

• concurrent engineering

• delayed differentiation

Which one of these specifies that a product must be suitable for its intended use?

• federal product guidelines

• NAFTA

• the Uniform Commercial Code

• the International Bureau of Standards

The term "voice of the customer" is associated with:

• the Taguchi approach.

• concurrent engineering.

• quality function deployment.

• service blueprinting.

Delayed differentiation can be useful for

• mass customization.

• outsourcing.

• postponing calculus solutions.

• production lines.

The term associated with incorporating customer ideas in product design is:

• the Taguchi approach.

• quality function deployment.

• mass customization.

• value analysis.