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Design Decisions That Lock In Manufacturing Cost Before Production
A practical DFMA guide to the product decisions that commit manufacturing cost before the first production part is made.
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged material selection. 3 pages.
A practical DFMA guide to the product decisions that commit manufacturing cost before the first production part is made.
Five materials milestones that each removed a constraint designers had treated as fixed: corrosion, weight, fibre supply, glazing cost and the stiffness penalty of mass.
How the Bessemer converter, the first synthetic polymers and engineered wood products replaced found material properties with specified, warranted ones.