DFA-Tool®

DFA-Tool® is developed for Design for Assembly analysis and assembly cost reduction to help designers and manufacturing engineers improve the manufacturability and assembly of the products already early in the design stage. Assembly difficulties and challenges are systematically analyzed and potential parts for elimination are identified. Based on user defined characteristics of each part and added assembly operations and tools, the DFA-Tool® makes an estimate of assembly time. Proven with actual manufacturing processes the accuracy of estimation can be up to +/- 10%.

Using DFA-Tool® you can speed up the assembly design process and reduce the product´s assembly cost.

Assembly Bill of Materials and DFA-Analysis

Assembly Bill of Materials is created from imported design BOM or created using DFA-Tool® functionalities. Assembly BOM can contain parts, screws, operations, tools and equipments.

In part/screw DFA-Analysis each part’s necessity in assembly is verified in order to optimize the part count. Each part’s assembly characteristics are defined for assembly time estimation and assembly difficulty evaluation. There is a dedicated DFA-Analysis for screws. Based on the screw parameters software calculates the screwing time and max torque that can be utilised to select the suitable tool.

CAD integration

DFA-Tool® can seamlessly be integrated with major 3D design systems like Creo, Catia, Solidworks and NX. The Bill of Materials and part characteristics are imported directly from CAD to DFA-Tool®. Characteristics are ID, File name, Description, Lenght, Width, Height. Additionally an thumbnail of the part will be visible in part CAD Model Properties.

DFA Library

If there are commonalities between parts, screws, operations, tools and equipments, they can be saved in the DFA library for later use. The library data contain DFA characteristics and can be used as such with the new product or modified as needed.