More engineers are embracing design for manufacturing (DFM) to streamline production workflows. Industry leaders such as Apple, GE, and Samsung have already adopted DFM as part of their standard practices. If you're using the "over the wall" engineering strategy — in which the design team completes their work and then tosses it to the manufacturing team to figure out production details — it might be a good time to revise your production process. DFM eliminates guesswork from your processes and instead focuses on manufacturing simplicity right from the get-go. In this approach, designers and engineers work together to create, refine, and simplify components prior to production, leading to considerable time and cost savings.
