What is Design for Manufacturing?
Video from Protolabs. Watch on YouTube.
What you'll get
A five-minute explainer from Protolabs, which sells on-demand molding and machining, that sorts design for manufacturing into five areas, the manufacturing process, the design itself, materials, the environment the product will be used in, and compliance and testing, then touches on volume and complexity. Use it as a checklist of questions to settle with a shop before you finalize a drawing.
Do this week
Write one answer for each of the video's five areas for your product, the process, design, materials, use environment and required tests, and mark any you cannot answer yet.