It was a steamy morning in late July when I drove into Manhattan for a breakfast meeting with Chuck Byers of TSMC and Anna del Rosario of Altera. Ostensibly, the meeting was to discuss TSMC's ongoing ...

Minimizing the variety of machine tools and putting best-design practices online are a few ideas from one company's design-for-manufacturing program. Manufacturers in the company were first to suggest ...

The manufacturing world is undergoing a profound transformation based on new design technologies that couple 3D representations of highly complex structures with artificial intelligence, model-based ...

High-power lasers, cell phones that record 3-D videos and computing systems with enough processing power to map the human genome are hot technologies that need to be kept cool. Without effective heat ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Design for manufacturing (DFM) is the process of designing ...

With innovation, products are quickly becoming more complex, sophisticated, and personalized. Change is already underway in a number of fields. 3D printing is revolutionizing production of metal parts ...

For a good look at the power of lean engineering and design for manufacturing, the Ford Taurus is a leading example. “A lot of the early success stories that happened with DFMA were in the automotive ...

True design for manufacturability (DFM) at 65-nm and below technology nodes has become more critical due to the shrinking of the critical dimensions of structures on the chip where the same absolute ...

Electronics design engineers spend substantial effort on schematics, simulation, and layout. Yet, a component’s long-term success also depends on how well its physical form aligns with downstream ...

Robotic systems are transforming industries worldwide, from manufacturing plants to healthcare facilities. However, the journey from concept to deployment is often fraught with design and ...