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Manufacturing issues are one of the top reasons that we see warranty returns and loss of market share in the electronics industry. Issues like supply chain failures and printed circuit board assembly ...

Many industries and, indeed, companies have their own unique definitions of design for manufacturing (DFM), including how to apply it and the benefits it brings to themselves, their customers, and the ...

AI revolutionizes polymer composite production with integrated systems that cut waste and boost efficiency for aerospace firms.

High-power lasers, cell phones that record 3-D videos and computing systems with enough processing power to map the human genome are hot technologies that need to be kept cool. Without effective heat ...

The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it ...

This third installment in the golf putter design series moves the process from reverse engineering and additive manufacturing to CAD/CAM software. Turning attention to the role of CAD/CAM software in ...

Until recently, predicting IC yield was fairly straightforward: If you could manufacture each structure, you could manufacture the entire chip. The design that was drawn was the one printed on the ...

One of the more positive development in recent times has been the increased focus on providing great user experiences across products. As complex products –like enterprise software, communication and ...

As designs transition from 130nm to 90nm and below, designers must consider manufacturing effects early in the design cycle. Shrinking design nodes, larger designs, and expanding design complexity ...