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Functionality and manufacturability have become critical factors for successfully bringing a high quality product into today’s globally competitive marketplace. Functionality assures the performance of a designed product, while manufacturability assures the designed product can be quickly produced at the lowest cost. Many approaches and computer tools are available today for design engineers to assess functionality. However, there is virtually no computer tool or even a systematic approach that can be used to correctly assess manufacturability. Design engineers have long dreamt of using a computer to evaluate manufacturability just as they evaluate functionality—using tools such as finite element analysis, kinematic analysis, etc.
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Dong, J.J. (1999). Rapid Manufacturability Assessment with Feature-Based Process Flow Charts. In: Kamrani, A.K., Sferro, P.R. (eds) Direct Engineering: Toward Intelligent Manufacturing . Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4941-3_4
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