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The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it ...

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is a 6-meter-diameter state-of-the-art telescope designed to operate at submillimeter to millimeter wavelengths for wide field observations and large-area ...

To get its engineers thinking about design for assembly back in the 1980s, Westinghouse made a video about a product optimized for assembly: the IBM Proprinter. The technology may be dated, but the ...

Software automation in PCB assembly. Advantages and disadvantages of software automation in PCB assembly. The PCB assembly (PCBA) process is becoming more complex with evolving market trends such as ...

A manufacturing aid is any device, platform, tool, jig, or fixture used to enhance, speed up, perfect, or fix a manufacturing or assembly production. Manufacturing aids range from simple assistors, ...