Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly

by Geoffrey Boothroyd, Peter Dewhurst, Winston A. Knight

Overview

Hailed as a groundbreaking and important textbook upon its initial publication, the latest iteration of Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly does not rest on those laurels. In addition to the expected updating of data in all chapters, this third edition has been revised to provide a top-notch textbook for university-level courses in product design and manufacturing design. The authors have added a comprehensive set of problems and student assignments to each chapter, making the new edition substantially more useful.

See what’s in the Third Edition:

• Updated case studies on the application of DFMA techniques
• Extended versions of the classification schemes of the features of products that influence the difficulty of handling and insertion for manual, high-speed automatic, and robot assembly
• Discussions of changes in the industry such as increased emphasis on the use of surface mount devices
• New data on basic manufacturing processes
• Coverage of powder injection molding

Recognized as international experts on the re-engineering of electro-mechanical products, the methods and guidelines developed by Boothroyd, Dewhurst, and Knight have been documented to provide significant savings in the product development process. Often attributed with creating a revolution in product design, the authors have been working in product design manufacture and assembly for more than 25 years. Based on theory yet highly practical, their text defines the factors that influence the ease of assembly and manufacture of products for a wide range of the basic processes used in industry. It demonstrates how to develop competitive products that are simpler in configuration and easier to manufacture with reduced overall costs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420089271
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/08/2010
Series:	Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Series , #74
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	712
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Boothroyd, Geoffrey; Dewhurst, Peter; Knight, Winston A.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Selection of Materials and Processes. Product Design for Manual Assembly. Electrical Connections and Wire Harness Assembly. Design for High-Speed Automatic Assembly and Robot Assembly. Printed Circuit Board Design for Manufacture and Assembly. Design for Machining. Design for Injection Molding. Design for Sheet Metalworking. Design for Die Casting. Design for Powder Metal Processing. Design for Sand Casting. Design for Investment Casting. Design for Hot Forging. Index.

Editorial Reviews

"If you are a manufacturer needing to reduce the cost of your products in a highly competitive international market, go out and buy this book. If you are a manufacturing student looking to learn something that will increase your value to potential employers, go out and buy this book. If you are a design engineer who wants to make for a penny, what a fool can make for two then go out and buy this book . . . it is a practical book, it works spectacularly well in the real world."
—Ernie Appleton, in Industrial Robot, April 2008

Praise for the First Edition
"...presents an excellent analysis of the evaluation methods of cost and performance of manufacturing and assembling technologies … an excellent reference."
—European Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 1995

From the Publisher

A text for engineering students or reference for practicing manufacturing engineers and designers, Much of the methodology involves analytical tools that allow designers and manufacturing engineers to predict the manufacturing and assembly costs of a proposed product before detailed design has taken place. Unlike other texts on the subject, which tend to be descriptive, this text provides the basic equations and data that allow manufacturing and assembly cost estimates to be made. Thus, for a limited range of materials and processes engineers and students can make cost estimates for real parts and assemblies and, therefore, become familiar with the details of the methods employed and the assumptions made. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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