Design for manufacturing and assembly and CAE tools: The case of a rice husker

Abstract

This paper presents an advantageous and newfangled approach where the combination of Design for Manufacture and Design for Assembly with product architecture principles, complemented with CAE tools, is used to reduce the manufacturing costs, time to market and the design deliverables quality of a mechanical system are improved. The results presented were obtained from the application of this approach to the design of a rice husker. The presented case, use some novelty concepts as hot/warm/cold swapping, which were adopted from electronics field, represented and defined from design and life cycle perspective for mechanical systems.