Framework for optimizing a product design considering both its performance and assembly complexity

In the traditional development process, companies typically focus first on designing the product to meet all performance specifications, and only afterwards are the manufacturing and assembly aspects taken into account. This often leads to the design being sent back and forth between the design and production teams, costing a lot of time and effort to repeatedly modify the product. Ideally, you should be able to “front-load” the assembly knowledge into the product design process, considering both the impact on the assembly system as well as the constraints that the assembly process could impose on the product design.

To tackle this, we have developed an automated modelling tool that allows a designer to optimize a product, taking both the product performance as well as the assembly complexity into account. The advantages are that: 1) During the development process, a designer can get instant feedback if a product is difficult or even impossible to assemble. 2) New, sometimes unconventional, designs can be found that form an ideal compromise between product performance and assemblability.  

During the webinar, you will get familiar with the general structure and main capabilities of the co-optimization framework, what Design for Assembly rules can be automatically evaluated, how the tool can practically be used and, finally, what results can be achieved.