AFDFM

For years, I have been focusing on DFM / DFA, and I have always defended this approach as having a central place in the design world.
For me, what mattered was never just designing; the real issue was designing for manufacturing.

In recent years, I started to focus on a perspective I call AFDFM (Analysis for Design for Manufacturing) by combining this DFM approach with my growing interest in FEA.

In fact, what I present with AFDFM is not a method that is very different from what should already exist. However, I use this name to define the process more clearly, to keep the analysis–design–manufacturing trio on the table at the same time, and to truly place these three approaches at the center.

Just as it is important to consider manufacturing while designing, it is equally risky to ignore boundary conditions and system requirements in the name of designing for manufacturing.

The essential point is;
to be able to integrate the design into manufacturing without disrupting the functional requirements of the system.

With AFDFM, this is exactly what we verify:
through analysis, we see whether a design that has been made suitable for manufacturing has actually changed the system requirements or not.

In addition to this,
if we can also include the analyses of manufacturing processes (welding analysis, forging analysis, etc.), we are able to see the real effects on the material. At this point, the system moves a little closer to perfection.