Design For Manufacture And Assembly Analysis of the Tray for Vertical Lift Modules

Abstract

This paper addresses the analysis of the design, manufacture, and assembly (DFMA) of the tray for a vertical lift module (Tray VLM), being a subassembly of this automatic VLM storage system. The method used for DFMA analysis is the Boothroyd Dewhurst method, using their software. Based on the recommendations of the DFMA software, following the study on the current Tray VLM product, several components were redesigned using the Design for Manufacture (DFM) module and certain stages for assembly were optimized, using the design for Assembly module (DFA). The result was reduced assembly cost, reduced assembly process time, and increased assembly design efficiency, which were successfully validated by DFMA software by maximizing the DFA index

Keywords

• tray
• manufacturing
• dfa
• dfm
• assembly
• dfma
• vlm