Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly

This newly revised and expanded reference/text presents up-to-date tools to analyze injection molding, sheet metalworking, die casting, and powder metal processing costs-with NEW chapters on sand and investment casting and hot forging.Providing more than 300 fundamental equations and a multitude of data necessary to estimate manufacturing and assembly cost during product design, benchmarking, and "should cost" analysis, the Second Edition of Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly includes new and updated information on:the influence of the application of design for manufacture and assembly on industry in the United States material selection and economic ranking of processes the effect of reduced assembly difficulties on product quality the links between computer-aided design solid models and design analysis tools the relationship of learning curves to assembly costsand more!Detailing concurrent and simultaneous engineering approaches, the Second Edition of Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly is the gold standard for mechanical, manufacturing, materials, electrical and electronics, cost, industrial, and quality engineers; product designers; purchasing managers; and cost estimators; and an exceptional text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.