Design for Assembly and Design for Manufacturing Study Case: Mid-Size Pickup-Box Reinforcement Application 2015-36-0141
The purpose of this paper is present a successfully application of Design For Assembly (DFA) and Design for Manufacturing (DFM) on Pickup-Box reinforcement. Those powerful quality tools are widely used during automotive design development and it might be a competitive design solution. As an introduction, a complete DFA and DFM revision is provided in order to allow methodology comprehension. Currently automakers technologies are shown as well. An introduction about product development process is presented in order to contextualize the DFA/DFM application in a real design situation. A rich and detailed revision about Pickup versions and body structure concept are covered as well. The study of case about DFA/DFM application on Mid-size Pickup-box Inner asm reinforcement generated 36-42% of mass reduction and 58-66% of cost reduction.
Citation: Sarmento, A., Pereira, A., Lima, L., and Rodrigues, L., "Design for Assembly and Design for Manufacturing Study Case: Mid-Size Pickup-Box Reinforcement Application," SAE Technical Paper 2015-36-0141, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-36-0141. Download Citation
Author(s):
Alisson Sarmento, André Luiz J. Pereira, Lincoln Lima, Luciana Rodrigues
Affiliated:
General Motors of Brazil - Product Engineering - Tech Center
Pages: 9
Event:
24th SAE Brasil International Congress and Display
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Product development
Downsizing
Body structures
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