Adam Muller on Building Hardware

Design for manufacture is also a critical part of designing and producing great products. Product Design needs to match well with what a manufacturing process capabilities (Cpk as discussed). If product design requirements and production capabilities don’t match there will be on going product quality issues. I’ve seen this more with smaller companies and lower volume products. Automotive and consumer products work at such high volumes and carry such risk that they have corporate controls in place that drive these processes. They also understand the cost of poor quality only goes up as the product goes further into its life cycle.