Version 9.0 of Design for Manufacture Assembly (DFMA) software has added tools to help engineers estimate assembly times and costs for their designs, investigate new design ideas, and select the best product design from the alternatives considered. The software guides engineers through a systematic analysis of their product designs with the aim of consolidating parts and eliminating assembly difficulties. DFMA 9.0 has an intuitive, pictorial interface that displays in a single main window all three components of the design-for-assembly analysis process: a product structure chart, question panels, and results box. Design engineers can customize the panels they wish to view through design-for-assembly analysis without leaving the main window. They can also add comments and insert image files for every part or operation listed in the "structure chart" and import 3D part geometry from all major CAD/CAM software systems.
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