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Boothroyd Dewhurst DFMA Software

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What is Boothroyd Dewhurst DFMA Software?

Boothroyd Dewhurst, headquartered in Rhode Island, offers DFMA Software for product cost management, including DFA Product Simplification for locating cost drivers, and DFM Concurrent Costing for design and costing comparison and analysis.

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Boothroyd Dewhurat DFMA Review

Incentivized
Anurag ChaudharyView profile
Engineer (Design & Development) in Engineering at JTEKT India Technical Center (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this DFMA software in the early stages of product design, mostly at the concept phase, in order to make the best selections possible early on. It's a potent tool for encouraging collaborative and inventive product design.

Pros

  • Cost optimization.
  • VA/VE, Cost reduction.
  • Part simplification.
  • Product optimization in early phases of design.

Cons

  • High skills required.
  • Not easy to learn for beginners.
  • Trainings requirement.
  • High cost.

Most Important Features

  • Cost optimization.
  • VA/VE.

Return on Investment

  • Smooth product design.
  • Less engineering changes required after SOP of product.
  • High revenue growth.

DFMA for ambitious product optimization

Bernd HaussmannView profile
Owner in Professional Services at konzept:WERT - Preventive Product Optimization (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Provide detailed cost estimation in the concept phase (with or without CAD data).
  • Provides detailed cost estimation down to the process level in a comprehensible way.
  • Supports project teams with hints for product simplification.
  • Assists industrial engineers with cost and process assumptions for part manufacturing such as die casting, injection molding, hot forming, machining, investment casting, sand casting, sintering technology, sheet metal cutting, stamping and forming, forging, printed circuit board assembly, extrusion of plastics and metals, manual and automatic assembly... and many secondary operations such as welding, bonding, etc...
  • Enables cost engineers to document their own know-how for use in the concept phase for early optimization / frontloading.

Cons

  • Needs some training. Not for absolute dummies.

Most Important Features

  • Give the value engineers an appropriate toolset for facilitation.
  • Give the cost engineers an appropriate toolset for improvement and negotiation.
  • Supports development teams with an interactive checklist for a holistic approach of product optimization

Return on Investment

  • With the given toolset and with an appropriate training a ROI << 1 year is easily possible.
  • By leading a project team the internal project communication will improve.
  • Provides cost optimization process along the project chain.. from concept phase, industrial engineering, assembly and procurement.